How does gender inequality persist in an advanced industrial society like the contemporary
United States, in which many economic, legal, institutional, and political forces work against …

In an advanced society like the US, where an array of processes work against gender
inequality, how does this inequality persist? Integrating research from sociology, social …

Gender is at core a group process because people use it as a primary frame for coordinating
behavior in interpersonal relations. The everyday use of sex/gender as cultural tool for …

A has declined noticeably in recent decades, by most standard indicators. Inequality is
declining in labor-force participation rates, wages, and occupational sex segregation, even …

That gender remains a crucial aspect of social organization is not in question. In all too many
parts of the world women are exposed to humiliations ranging from mockery to rape, from …

Sociologists have recognized increasingly that gender is not primarily a role or identity.
Instead, it is an institutionalized system of social practices for constituting people as two …

Framed by Gender is a succinct synthesis of decades of research by Cecilia L. Ridgeway
and others on a big question: how, 40 years after Title IX, does gender inequality continue to …

It is now a sociological truism that the manifestations of gender inequality in the family and in
the economy are related.! Countless studies (eg, Amsden 1980; Beneria and Stimpson …

In this article, the author argues that we need to conceptualize gender as a social structure,
and by doing so, we can better analyze the ways in which gender is embedded in the …

As a society, we've made tremendous progress toward gender equality over the past several
decades. Yet there remains significant inequality between women and men. Furthermore …