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Women, Marriage, and Job Opportunity in the Muslim World
In post-revolution Egypt, western onlookers pose the burning question of what rights the new governments will accord to women. Will women be included in a new democracy, or will there be a revival of strict fundamentalist law? According to Stanford researcher and professor of political science, Lisa Blaydes, the question of women’s rights is not so straight-forward as simply introducing western-style reforms.
Shortchanged: Women and the wealth gap
On the surface, the financial gender gap appears to be closing. Women now earn 78 cents for every dollar men earn, and women under 25 working full-time earn 95% of what their male peers earn. As researcher Mariko Chang revealed, income tells only part of the story. Despite the rise of women’s earnings to 78% of men’s, women own only 36% as much wealth.
From Revolution to the Everyday: Reflections on childhood, youth and poverty in Egypt
International discussions about how to rebuild Egypt in the aftermath of these uprisings, along with development policy proposals, tend to foreground children and youth. Stanford researcher Rania Kassab Sweis discovered in her ethnographic research that transnational NGOs and young Egyptians cite different priorities in developing the region, often talking past one another.
A funny thing happened on the way to gender equality
In her recent talk, “The Gender Revolution: Uneven and Stalled,” sociology Professor Paula England pointed out that since the 1970s women have increasingly majored in previously male-dominated fields like business, marketing, and accounting. Yet, there has been little increase in men majoring in traditionally female fields like English, education, and sociology.
What? Me Sexist?
In a 1936 Gallup poll only 30 percent of Americans said they would vote for a woman for president if she were qualified for the job. In contrast, by the late ‘90s nearly 100 percent of Americans expressed a willingness to have a woman in the highest office in the country. With Hillary Clinton making a viable run for President and Nancy Pelosi elected as the 60th Speaker of the House of Representatives, is it safe to say, then, that sexism is a thing of the past? Not quite.
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