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  2. Women in the workforce - Wikipedia

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    In 1990, women's labor force participation in the US was 74% compared to the non-US average of 67.1%, ranking the US 6th out of 22. In 2010, women's participation increased slightly to 75.2% in the US, while the non-US average jumped more than 12 percentage points to 79.5%. As a result, US women ranked 17th out of 22 countries only 20 years later.

  3. Occupational sexism - Wikipedia

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    It also suggests that, although men in low level positions in the workplace possess a low status in this context, they may carry over the higher status that comes with their gender into the workplace. Women do not possess this high status; therefore the low status that low-level women possess in the workplace is the sole status that matters. [11]

  4. Women in the United States labor force from 1945 to 1950

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    By 1945 the Women’s Army Corps had more than 100,000 members and 6,000 female officers who worked more than 200 non-combatant jobs stateside. [7] Women's Airforce Service Pilots were the first female pilots to fly military aircraft. [7] These women transported cargo and assisted with target missions. More than 1,000 women served as Women's ...

  5. Feminisation of the workplace - Wikipedia

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    The feminization of the workplace is the feminization, or the shift in gender roles and sex roles and the incorporation of women into a group or a profession once dominated by men, as it relates to the workplace. It is a set of social theories seeking to explain occupational gender-related discrepancies.

  6. Feminization (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    Feminization of education – Majority female teachers, a female majority of students in higher education and a curriculum which is better suited to the learning process of women. [2] Feminization of the workplace – Lower paying female-dominated occupations such as (1) food preparation, food-serving and other food-related occupations, and (2 ...

  7. Employment discrimination - Wikipedia

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    Because high concentrations of women work in these fields (34.8% of employed women of color and 5.1% of white women as private household workers, 21.6% and 13.8% working in service jobs, 9.3% and 3.7% as agricultural workers, and 8.1% and 17.2% as administrative workers), "nearly 45% of all employed women, then, appear to have been exempt from ...

  8. Women's work - Wikipedia

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    Women's work and therefore women themselves can be "rendered invisible" in situations in which women's work is a supportive role to "men's work". [8] For example, in peace negotiations , terms and language used may refer to ' combatants ' to indicate the army in question. [ 8 ]

  9. Gender pay gap - Wikipedia

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    Women's weekly earnings as a percentage of men's in the U.S. by age, 1979–2005 [14] In the United States, women's pay has increased relative to men since the 1960s. According to US census data, women's median earnings in 1963 were 56% of men's. [15] In 2016, women's median earnings had increased to 79% of men's. [15]