{"id":34299,"date":"2011-03-09T12:22:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T17:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=34299"},"modified":"2011-10-12T01:04:16","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T06:04:16","slug":"2011-international-womens-day-round-up-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/03\/09\/2011-international-womens-day-round-up-post\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 International Women’s Day Round-Up Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a number of readers emailed us to point out, yesterday was International Women’s Day<\/a>, designed to highlight both women’s accomplishments and the persistence of gender inequality worldwide. Ben Buursma noticed an ad in an Indonesian newspaper celebrating International Women’s Day and marketing “Books to empower all women,” though it turns out what they empower women to do is “look into the minds of men” and “find, keep, and understand a man”:<\/p>\n

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Emma M. H. sent in a link to the the White House Council on Women and Girls report on the status and well-being of U.S. women<\/a> on a variety of social indicators. Interestingly, while both men and women are waiting longer to get married, the gender gap in age at first marriage has remained relatively constant for decades:<\/p>\n

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Men are more likely to be either married and never-married, while women currently more likely than men to be divorced or widowed:<\/p>\n

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Over time, the percent of women who have never given birth has gone up, particularly for the 25-29 age group, though in the last decade there has been a slight downward trend for women aged 30-44:<\/p>\n

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One note about that graph: the report uses the phrase “had a child” and “childbearing,” so I think this data would include women who have adopted children but never given birth.<\/p>\n

I was surprised to see that rates of Cesarean sections have gone up in the past decade:<\/p>\n

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Women are now outperforming men in terms of educational attainment, earning the majority of bachelor’s degrees, though notice the number of degrees in engineering\/computer science earned by women hasn’t increased since 1998:<\/p>\n

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However, women still make less than men at each level of educational attainment:<\/p>\n

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The report has lots more data on family life, work, education, health, crime, and so on. I’ll post on other topics in the future.<\/p>\n

Finally, Ben N., Kay C., Gregory S., and Dave Z. all sent in this video starring Daniel Craig that highlights global gender inequality (though unfortunately I can’t find any reference that provides sources for the statistics in the video, so take it for what it’s worth):<\/p>\n

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