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Native American women earn significantly less than other women and men in the country. On average, it would take a Native American woman an additional 9 months to receive the same annual salary as a white man. [82] In addition, the average Native American woman earns approximately $0.58 per every individual dollar a white man earns. [83]
Ceremonial leaders could be male or female, and spiritual power was regarded as more valuable than material wealth. As such, the spiritual leaders were often more influential than the political leaders. [20] Kalapuya males usually hunted while the women and young children gathered food and set up camps.
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]
One of the enduring truths of American politics is that women tend to be more liberal than men. A majority of women have supported the Democratic candidate in every presidential election since 1996.
Her decades of research have shown that, over time, the nature of the gender pay gap has evolved, with childbearing being a major factor in women being paid less than men in today’s America.
For instance, a recent Varo Bank survey found that women are significantly more likely than men to be living paycheck-to-paycheck, with 59% of female respondents saying as much compared to 41% of men.
Table 1 A meta-analysis found women were rated more highly than men on effective communal behaviors, and more highly than men on two agentic behaviors: contingent reward and task-oriented / initiating structure. [89] Women were also rated more highly on inspirational motivation, categorized as gender-neutral.
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]