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Gender Inequality and the 2008 Presidential Election

Gender Inequality and the 2008 Presidential Election. What is Gender Inequality ?. Gender inequality focuses on the unequal access to power, privilege and prestige between men and women in society. Gender is usually considered as a social construct.

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Gender Inequality and the 2008 Presidential Election

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  1. Gender Inequality and the 2008 Presidential Election

  2. What is Gender Inequality? Gender inequality focuses on the unequal access to power, privilege and prestige between men and women in society. Gender is usually considered as a social construct

  3. The Status of Women in Modern Industrial Societies Studies of gender stratification inmodern industrial societies tend to focus on: • 1.   Occupational segregation • 2.   Income inequality (women get less return on their educational investment than men) • 3.   Feminization of poverty • 4.  Glass ceiling effects • 5.  Work and childcare issues • 6. Gender inequality in politics

  4. Median Weekly Earnings ($) by Sex for Selected Occupations 2007 http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswom2007.pdf

  5. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. See also http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswom2007.pdf

  6. From: Buchmann and DiPrete (2006) American Sociological Review Bachelor’s Degrees Awarded to Men and Women in the United States, 1959–2004 Source: U.S. Department of Education. 2004. Digest of Education Statistics, Table 247. „...white female advantagein college completion is largely attributableto a declining rate of college completionamong boys whose fathers were high schooleducated or absent.”

  7. http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=77

  8. Poverty Rates in the U.S. by Sex, 1966 - 2007 http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/histpov/perindex.html Table 7

  9. Poverty Status in the U.S. by Age and Sex: 1999 http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/censr-20.pdf

  10. http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/fast_facts/levels_of_office/documents/elective.pdfhttp://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/fast_facts/levels_of_office/documents/elective.pdf

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