Under the official poverty measure, the poverty rate for women is higher than that for men, although this gender gap shrank slightly in the 1990s. The gender gap in poverty is evident for all gradations of poverty.
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Gender wage gaps, as conventionally measured, understate the extent of gender inequality in the labor market.
Since 2000, U.S. women’s overall employment rate has fallen, with the decline concentrated among women without a college degree.
The male-female life expectancy gap, which favors females, fell from 7.6 years in 1970 to 4.8 years in 2010, a reduction of more than one-third. Most of this convergence was caused by asubstantial decline from 1990 to 2000 in HIV-AIDS mortality and in the homicide rate.
Despite common beliefs to the contrary, male students do not consistently outperform female students in mathematics. On average, males have a negligible lead in math in fourth grade, but that lead essentially disappears by eighth grade. This pattern shifts in high school.
The idea that people may not identify with traditional binary gender categories has gained acceptance in the United States, but the lack of recognition of transgender and nonbinary citizens in administrative records, identity documents, and national surveys restricts people’s ability to self-iden
The gap between white and Hispanic poverty has remained stable for decades despite dramatic changes in the size and composition of the two groups.
The 1996 PRWORA reform introduced time limits on the receipt of welfare in the United States.
The social safety net is widely recognized as having been quite successful in providing major financial support to low-income families during the Great Recession, one of the most severe economic downturns in modern U.S. history.
The growing diversity of the U.S. population raises questions about integration among America's fastest growing minority population—Hispanics.