Discussion Board 6 - Gender in Global Context
Pick a country and compare it to the US for at least three things from the following list:
A: Income gap between men and women (in general), Women who are educated earn more.
As a women advances in her career, she will earn more. They earn 56% of what their male colleagues earn for the same type of work. In the U.S., American men have a higher income than women. They earn a median income of $49,398. According to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, women still earned 77 cents for every dollar that men earned in 2012. http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/women-workforce-india https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Income+gap+between+men+and+women+(in+general)+in+the+U.S
D: Educational level of women compared to educational level of men, School aged women between 5‐ 29 years have 69.2% females in primary schools, 65.6% females in the middle schools …show more content…
There is still a gap in education and experience contributing to a pay gap. The report from the White House
Council of Economic Advisers shows that although women are increasingly becoming more educated and make up a larger portion of the country's workforce, they consistently earn less than men, even when they have similar levels of education. http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2014/10/31/women-more-likely-to-graduate-college-but-still-earn-less-than-men http://www.wikigender.org/wiki/women-and-men-in-india-2012/
G: Average number of children a woman has, the average fertility rate is 2.51 in
India. Which is children born per women. Compared to the US this is similar. The average in the U.S is about 2.5 children. It have declined over the years, since 1978. The average number of children per family in the USA is two children per woman. This is considered the replacement rate for a
Pick a country and compare it to the US for at least three things from the following list:
A: Income gap between men and women (in general), Women who are educated earn more.
As a women advances in her career, she will earn more. They earn 56% of what their male colleagues earn for the same type of work. In the U.S., American men have a higher income than women. They earn a median income of $49,398. According to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, women still earned 77 cents for every dollar that men earned in 2012. http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/women-workforce-india https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Income+gap+between+men+and+women+(in+general)+in+the+U.S
D: Educational level of women compared to educational level of men, School aged women between 5‐ 29 years have 69.2% females in primary schools, 65.6% females in the middle schools …show more content…
There is still a gap in education and experience contributing to a pay gap. The report from the White House
Council of Economic Advisers shows that although women are increasingly becoming more educated and make up a larger portion of the country's workforce, they consistently earn less than men, even when they have similar levels of education. http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2014/10/31/women-more-likely-to-graduate-college-but-still-earn-less-than-men http://www.wikigender.org/wiki/women-and-men-in-india-2012/
G: Average number of children a woman has, the average fertility rate is 2.51 in
India. Which is children born per women. Compared to the US this is similar. The average in the U.S is about 2.5 children. It have declined over the years, since 1978. The average number of children per family in the USA is two children per woman. This is considered the replacement rate for a