The continued under-representation of women in U.S. politics
2012 report from American University and Loyola Marymount University analyzes on women’s performance and participation rates in politics.
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The paradox of declining female happiness
2009 study in American Economic Journal exploring why American women’s happiness has decreased relative to men’s from 1972 to 2006.
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Changing attitudes toward marriage and children in six countries
2010 study in Sociological Perspectives using three datasets on changing attitudes toward traditional marriage structures and child bearing.
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Differences in work and income in cohabitation and marriage
2012 study in the Journal of Marriage and Family on the differences between couples that formalize their union and those that cohabit but remain unmarried.
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State policies and gender earnings inequality in the United States
2010 study in The Sociological Quarterly on how work environments and social policies may impact the gender wage gap.
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Helicopter parents and landing pad kids: Intense parental support of grown children
2012 study in the Journal of Marriage and Family on the causes and effects of helicopter parenting .
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The opt-in revolution? Contraception and the gender gap in wages
2012 study for the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) on oral contraceptive use and later declines in the gender wage gap.
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Women’s well-being: Ranking America’s top 25 metro areas
2012 report by the Social Science Research Council on comparative well-being levels for women living in the metropolitan United States.
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Longitudinal gender and age bias in a prominent amateur new media community
2012 study published in New Media and Society on age and gender discrimination in an online community.
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Money, benefits and power: The “glass ceiling” and “glass escalator” hypotheses
2012 study by the City University of New York on the how the interaction of gender, race and ethnicity can produce wage and benefit inequality.
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