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The Future Of Women

This article presents a true/false quiz to fact check common claims made about gender relations. Impartial and authoritative sources are used to provide evidence for each claim.

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The Future Of Women

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  1. The Future Of Women Originally “The Future Of Gender Relations” Wayne Radinsky Boulder Future Salon July 23rd, 2011

  2. Fact Checking Each claim is presented in the form of a true/false quiz. Each claim is made either by “feminists” or their detractors (“anti-feminists”, “Mens Right Activists” (MRA's), religious conservatives, etc). Try to guess the correct answer and then we will see what I was able to find on Google. I tried to find impartial sources (sites not related to the issue) and authoritative sources where possible (often very difficult). Links to the sources are provided so you won't say I'm making stuff up.

  3. True or False? Most of the world's billionaires are men.

  4. TRUE The world has 947 billionaires according to FORBES. 10 are women. Therefore billionaires are 98.94% men, 1.06% women.

  5. Few enough women, you can name them each individually... Alice Walton (Wal-Mart) $20.6 billion Liliane Bettencourt (L'Oréal) $20.0 billion Birgit Rausing (Tetra Laval) $13.0 billion Savitri Jindal (Jindal Steel) $12.2 billion Abigail Johnson (Fidelity Investments) $11.5 billion Susanne Klatten (Altana) $11.1 billion Iris Fontbona (Antofagasta) $11.0 billion

  6. ... Jacqueline Mars (Mars, Inc) $11.0 billion Anne Cox Chambers (Cox Enterprises) $10.0 billion Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken (Heineken) $7.0 billion

  7. True or False? The majority of billionaires in the UNITED STATES are men.

  8. TRUE The United States has 415 billionaires according to FORBES. 4 of them are women. Therefore US billionaires are 99.0% men, 1.0% women.

  9. ... Alice Walton (Wal-Mart) $20.6 billion Abigail Johnson (Fidelity Investments) $11.5 billion Jacqueline Mars (Mars, Inc) $11.0 billion Anne Cox Chambers (Cox Enterprises) $10.0 billion

  10. Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_billionaires

  11. True or False? Most FORTUNE 500 CEO's are men.

  12. TRUE 15 FORTUNE 500 companies are run by women. Therefore, FORTUNE 500 CEO's are 97% men, 3% women.

  13. So few women you can name them Brenda Barnes (Sara Lee) Carol Bartz (Yahoo) Angela Braly (WellPoint) Ursula Burns (Xerox) Lynn Elsenhans (Sunoco) Christina Gold (Reynolds American) Andrea Jung (Avon)

  14. ... Ellen Kullman (DuPont) Carol Meyrowitz (TJX) Indra Nooyi (PepsiCo) Mary Sammons (Rite Aid) Laura Sen (BJ's Wholesale Club) Patricia Woertz (Archer Daniels Midland)

  15. Source http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2010/womenceos/

  16. True or False? Most members of Congress are men.

  17. TRUE The US House Of Representatives has 432 members. 72 are women. Therefore, the House is 83.3% men, 16.7% women. The Senate has 100 members. 17 are women. Therefore, the Senate is 83% men, 17% women.

  18. Sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/112th_United_States_Congress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_United_States_Senate

  19. True or False? Most top Hollywood directors are men.

  20. TRUE For the Top 100 grossing films of 2007: 97.3% of directors were men (2.7% women) 88.8% of writers were men (11.2% women) 79.5% of producers were men (20.5% women), and 70.1% of speaking characters in the films were male (29.9% were female).

  21. Sources http://annenberg.usc.edu/News%20and%20Events/News/~/media/PDFs/07GenderKey.ashx http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/24/women-underrepresented-in_n_475128.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/movies/13dargis.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stacy-smith/female-directors-writers_b_480848.html

  22. True or False? Women earn less than men.

  23. TRUE “During 2010, median weekly earnings of female full-time workers were $669, compared with male median weekly earnings of $824. Based on these data, the ratio of women’s to men’s median weekly earnings was 81.2.” “Another measure of the earnings gap, the ratio of women’s and men’s median annual earnings for full-time year- round workers, was 77.0 in 2009 (data for 2010 are not yet available).”

  24. Source www.iwpr.org/publications/pubs/the-gender-wage-gap-2010-updated-march-2011

  25. True or False? Women are paid less than men for exactly the same job.

  26. TRUE “In 2008, male physicians newly trained in New York State made on average $16,819 more than newly trained female physicians.” The gender gap “cannot be explained by specialty choice, practice setting, work hours, or other characteristics.”

  27. Source http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/30/2/193.abstract

  28. True or False? Women do more of the world's work and produce more of the world's food than men, yet earn and own less of the world's wealth.

  29. TRUE “Women perform 66 percent of the world’s work, produce 50 percent of the food, but earn 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property.” (UNICEF)

  30. Source http://www.unifem.org/gender_issues/women_poverty_economics/facts_figures.php

  31. True or False? Women are penalized more for tough negotiating than men are (in the US).

  32. TRUE “What we found across all the studies is men were always less willing to work with a woman who had attempted to negotiate than with a woman who did not. They always preferred to work with a woman who stayed mum. But it made no difference to the men whether a guy had chosen to negotiate or not.”

  33. Source http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/29/AR2007072900827.html

  34. True or False? More women in the US graduate from college than men.

  35. TRUE “National data in recent years show a 57%-43% split favoring women, both in enrollments and graduation rates.” Hanna Rosin in her talk said 60% – she could have a more recent figure than what I was able to find independently.

  36. Source http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-02-09-whyboysfail09_ST_N.htm

  37. True or False? Most elementary school teachers in the US are women.

  38. TRUE “In Seattle, about 20 percent of elementary teachers are men, a bit higher than the statewide average of 17 percent.” “At the University of Washington, usually only 12 percent to 15 percent of the students coming through the elementary prep teaching program are men.”

  39. Source http://www.seattlepi.com/local/252612_maleteachers19.html

  40. True or False? Women in the US earn more postgraduate degrees (masters degrees, MD, DDS, law degrees, PhD, EdD, etc) than men.

  41. True except for MD/DDS/law degrees Associate's degrees – 62.1% Bachelor's degrees – 57.2% Master's degrees – 60.4% MD, DDS & law degrees – 49.0% Doctoral degrees (PhD, EdD, etc) – 52.3% (data from 2008-9 school year)

  42. Source http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=72

  43. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/hats-off-to-winners-of-inaugural-google.htmlhttp://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/hats-off-to-winners-of-inaugural-google.html

  44. True or False? The percentage of computer science degrees awarded to women has declined since the 1980's.

  45. TRUE

  46. Percentage of computer science degrees awarded to women 1984 – 37.1% 1990 – 29.9% 1998 – 26.7% 2005 – 22.0% 2008 – 17.6%

  47. Sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women,_girls_and_information_technology http://blog.jolieodell.com/2010/08/31/women-in-tech-stats/ http://knol.google.com/k/the-decline-of-women-in-computer-science-from-1940-1982

  48. True or False? Unmarried young women in the United States who have no children earn more than men.

  49. TRUE “In 2008, single, childless women between ages 22 and 30 were earning more than their male counterparts in most U.S. cities, with incomes that were 8% greater on average, according to an analysis of Census Bureau data released Wednesday by Reach Advisors, a consumer-research firm in Slingerlands, N.Y.”

  50. ... “According to a new analysis of 2,000 communities by a market research company, in 147 out of 150 of the biggest cities in the U.S., the median full-time salaries of young women are 8% higher than those of the guys in their peer group. In two cities, Atlanta and Memphis, those women are making about 20% more. This squares with earlier research from Queens College, New York, that had suggested that this was happening in major metropolises. But the new study suggests that the gap is bigger than previously thought, with young women in New...

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