The one chilling reason why nursing aides earn less than driver/sales workers.
Tag: segregation
Gender segregated sociology today
This updates a series of posts that have addressed gender in academic sociology, starting in 2011 and updated in 2015, along with various tweets (to see random fact tweets from me on Twitter, Google familyunequal "now you know"). Gender in academic sociology is complicated because the profession is running pretty female these days, with more than…
Sex segregation propositions in 140 characters
In response to an annoying conversation on Twitter about this short paper, which felt very familiar, here is an argument about the sex segregation of work, in the form of unsourced propositions of 140 characters or less. You can find most of these in longer form in various posts under the segregation tag. It's tweetstorm,…
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New data on gender-segregated sociology
Sociology has been producing mostly women PhDs for a quarter century. And yet.
The most comprehensive analysis ever of the gender of New York Times writers
Out of 21,440 article in three months, women wrote 34%. In Opinion, U.S., World, Business, and Sports, men wrote more than two-thirds of all articles. In headline words, it's Beauty, Children, Home, Women versus US, Deal, Business, and Iran.
Why are only 29% of NYTimes.com front page authors women?
Women were 124 out of 421 authors on the front page over 26 samples in 32 days. Why?
Where is race in the Chetty et al. mobility paper?
The burgeoning elite conversation about economic mobility,
poverty, and inequality is good news. It's avoidance of race is
not.
Op-Ed plus: Gender composition of college majors
The figure from the cutting room floor.
Gender Gap Statistic Gets it from All Sides
This hard-working statistic is as often abused and attacked by antifeminists as it is misused and misunderstood by those sympathetic to feminism. But it is good for one thing: information.
De-Sexing the Labor Market, 1965 edition
You can't even safely advertise for a wife any more. And by "you," we mean men.
Family Inequality 