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Males are more dominant than females, and they possess more political power and occupy higher status positions illustrating the iron law of androcracy. [18] As a role gets more powerful, Putnam’s law of increasing disproportion [19] becomes applicable and the probability the role is occupied by a hegemonic group member increases. [20] [21]
In the U.S. today, women are statistically more likely to vote than men, [23] a pattern that occurs in certain countries, such as Scandinavian countries, while the opposite occurs in others, such as India. [19] [23] Scandinavian countries are also some of the countries with the greatest female representation in government positions. [19]
Women are more likely than men to live below the poverty line, a phenomenon known as the feminization of poverty. The 2015 poverty rates for men and women in the U.S. were 10% and 15% respectively. Women are less likely to pursue advanced degrees and tend to have low paying jobs.
Evaluations by other people find that women are more effective leaders than men, especially in business and educational contexts and at mid-level and upper-level positions. Men are rated by others to be more effective in government organizations. On self-evaluations, men rate themselves more effective than women rate themselves.
As more and more members of Gen Z (those born between 1997 and 2012) reach voting age, this divide among young voters could make the partisan gender gap — already one of the most important ...
The works of Aristotle portrayed women as morally, intellectually, and physically inferior to men; saw women as the property of men; claimed that women's role in society was to reproduce and to serve men in the household; and saw male domination of women as natural and virtuous. [43] [44] [45]
According to a new Gallup analysis, 40% of women ages 18-29 describe themselves as liberal/very liberal, compared with 25% of men in that age range and 27% of women 30 and older. Stances on ...
Gender is used as a means of describing the distinction between the biological sex and socialized aspects of femininity and masculinity. [9] According to West and Zimmerman, gender is not a personal trait; it is "an emergent feature of social situations: both as an outcome of and a rationale for various social arrangements, and as a means of legitimating one of the most fundamental divisions ...