Wealth, Race, and Gender
Sanguinity sent in an interesting, if disheartening, report by Insight Center for Community Economic Development. The report looks at the assets owned by women of color and the wealth gap between them...
View ArticleTreat Women Like Women, but Pretend You’re Treating them like Human Beings
Cross-posted at Jezebel. Sarah P. sent in this stunning video, from the the Wall Street Journal, about how to advise women about investing. The video has a simple message: Women are women. They’re...
View ArticleDatabase of Human Development Information
Dmitriy T.M. and Jeff H. sent in a link to Mapping the Measure of America, a website by the Social Science Research Council that provides an amazing amount of information about various measures of...
View Article2011 International Women’s Day Round-Up Post
As a number of readers emailed us to point out, yesterday was International Women’s Day, designed to highlight both women’s accomplishments and the persistence of gender inequality worldwide. Ben...
View ArticleWhy Did Married Mothers Go To Work?
Claude Fischer, at Made in America, argues that the biggest change of the last 50 years is the increase in the number of mothers in the workforce. From the beginning of last century till now, that...
View ArticleThe Threat of (Brown) Women’s Fertility
Earlier this month, The New York Times and Foreign Policy both reported on the United Nations population forecast for the next 100 years. According to the report, rather than hitting 9 billion at...
View ArticleWomen and Economic Opportunity: International Comparison
Sara P. sent in a video from The Economist that highlight women’s economic opportunities worldwide. It is based on the results of an economic index ranking of 113 nations, focusing on issues such as...
View ArticleCities, Soap Operas, and the Declining Birth Rate in Latin America
The declining birth rate in Latin America, depicted in this graph, is a nice example of the way that both cultural and social change affects individual choices. Brazil is highlighted as an extreme...
View ArticleIllustrating the Gender Pay Gap
While income inequality between the sexes has decreased in recent decades, women still only make seventy-seven cents for every dollar a man is paid. Matt Separa from the Center for American Progress...
View ArticleInteractive Map of the Gender Pay Gap
The National Partnership for Women & Families has posted an interactive map that displays the gender pay gap in each state and in the Congressional districts within the state. It uses Census Bureau...
View ArticleDiverse Countries Do Better with Female Heads of State
Countries with a lot of ethnic diversity generally show weaker economic growth than homogeneous countries. A new study, however, discovered a variable that strongly reverses the trend: women leaders....
View ArticleStay-at-Home Mothers on the Rise among Low-Income Families
“Stay-at-home mother” evokes black and white images of well-coiffed women in starched aprons. Rather than a vestige of a bygone era, stay-at-home moms are on the rise, according to the findings of a...
View ArticleA Way for Feminism to Overcome its “Class Problem”: Unions
The Nation sparked a robust discussion last week with its incisive online conversation, Does Feminism Have a Class Problem? The panelists addressed the “Lean In” phenomenon, articulating how and why...
View ArticleConspicuous Pollution: Rural White Men Rollin’ Coal
Conspicuous consumption refers to the practice of ostentatiously displaying of high status objects. Think very expensive purses and watches. In the last few decades, as concern for the environment...
View ArticleThe Social Side of Sales
As summer approaches and ads for part-time student work start popping up all over campus, it is a good time to talk about the sociology of sales. The Annex podcast recently ran a segment on...
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