Gender Equality – ANYVERM https://anyverm.com ANYVERM Sat, 09 Jun 2018 18:10:46 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.5 https://anyverm.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/anyverm-logo-icon-menu.jpg Gender Equality – ANYVERM https://anyverm.com 32 32 https://anyverm.com/wp-content/plugins/squirrly-seo/view/css/feed.css States with greater gender wage disparity tend to favor Donald Trump https://anyverm.com/gender-equality/states-with-greater-gender-wage-disparity-tend-to-favor-donald-trump/ https://anyverm.com/gender-equality/states-with-greater-gender-wage-disparity-tend-to-favor-donald-trump/#respond Sat, 20 Jan 2018 06:54:21 +0000 https://anyverm.com/?p=61 States with greater gender wage disparity tend to favor Donald Trump

I was just looking to see how California (home state) did when it came to women’s wages, as compared to men. Really, I was looking to see if there was a connection between women’s representation in state legislatures (a very good thing) and the wage gap. Nothing detailed, just simple armchair empiricism, which is the worst (best?) kind of empiricism. And found nothing obvious.

Then I came across a Gallup poll on Donald Trump’s approval rating by state. So, just decided to plot one against the other. And found a correlation of almost 70%. Yikes!! It can’t mean anything right? In any case, here it is.  Looks pretty persuasive.  Of something.

Donald Trump,Donald Trump approval,gender gap,wage diparity

On the original topic, California does alright.  If, we are grading on a curve.  What’s up with Delaware?!?  And, shame on you Wyoming.

Donald Trump,Donald Trump approval,gender gap,wage diparity

Donald Trump,Donald Trump approval,gender gap,wage diparity

Sources: National Women’s Law Center; Gallup

]]> https://anyverm.com/gender-equality/states-with-greater-gender-wage-disparity-tend-to-favor-donald-trump/feed/ 0 The U.S. is a gender head scratcher https://anyverm.com/gender-equality/the-u-s-is-a-gender-head-scratcher/ https://anyverm.com/gender-equality/the-u-s-is-a-gender-head-scratcher/#respond Wed, 17 Jan 2018 20:01:04 +0000 https://anyverm.com/?p=9 The U.S. is a gender head scratcher
The Economist released its fifth annual “glass ceiling index” to commemorate International Women’s Day on March 8.  The index ranks OECD countries based on where women have the best (and worst) chance of equal treatment in the workplace.   U.S. ranks 20th out of the 29 countries surveyed.  Not good.   There are bright spots, however.  Women account for more than 40% of managerial positions in the U.S.  Not great, but enough to rank it first.  Women’s tertiary (higher) education attainment is also 6% greater than that of men, and better than the OECD average.  This is all good.  How then do we explain that women make 20% less than men in the U.S., which ranks as the 25th worst out of 29? child care, gender gap, glass ceiling, wage gap More academically inclined people can answer this question better, but it does seem compelling that in this group of countries, the U.S. is among the most challenging in which to raise children.  Which feeds an unhappy circularity of reinforcing existing gender norms in the home (women more likely to stay at home) and the workplace (lower wages). In the U.S., net child-care costs are among the highest (5th out of 29), as a percentage of average wages.  It is the only country in this group to offer no mandated paid leave for mothers.  And, cozy in a group of 9 countries to offer no paid leave for fathers.  It probably does not help that women hold only 20% of seats in the House of representatives – 5th lowest. Source: “The best and worst places to be a working woman” The Economist, March 8
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