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The Huffington Post and YouGov asked 124 women why they choose to be childfree. Their motivations ranged from preferring their current lifestyles (64 percent) to prioritizing their careers (9 percent) — a.k.a. fairly universal things that have motivated men not to have children for centuries.
There was a 5:1 ratio of men to women working in films. 30.8% of women having speaking characters, who may or may not have been a part of the 28.8% of women who were written to wear revealing clothing compared to the 7% of men who did, or the 26.2% of women who wore little to no clothing opposed to the 9.4% of men who did the same. [132]
A potential explanation as to why there are disparate difference in health status and access between genders is due to an unbalanced sex ratio-for example, the Indian subcontinent has a ratio of 770 women per 1000 men. Neglect of female children, limited or poor access to health care, sex selective abortions, and reproductive mortality are all ...
Feminization of poverty refers to a trend of increasing inequality in living standards between men and women due to the widening gender gap in poverty.This phenomenon largely links to how women and children are disproportionately represented within the lower socioeconomic status community in comparison to men within the same socioeconomic status. [1]
Laurel Road pointed to the end of student loan forbearance as a reason behind women’s increased worries over repayment. In the survey, 14% of women voiced worries about student loan repayment ...
Ensure women are aware of their cancer profile early. "All women should know their cancer risk profile by the age of 30," Litvack says. "We all need to be in control of our own health, having the ...
Cervical cancer, considered a “highly preventable” disease, has long been declining in the United States — but it’s now on the rise among women in their 30s and 40s. Rates climbed 1.7 ...
The bulk of this decline, was due to better labor market endowments of women (i.e. better education, training, and work attachment). [ 18 ] Another meta-analysis of 41 empirical studies on the wage gap performed in 1998 found a similar time trend in estimated pay gaps, a decrease of roughly 1% per year.