So what is the future of marriage?
In 1996 a symposium titled “Can Government Save the Family?” was published by the Hoover Institution. A who’s-who list of culture warriors—including Dan Quayle, James Dobson, John Engler, John Ashcroft, and David Blankenhorn—were asked, “What can government do, if anything, to make sure that the overwhelming majority of American children grow up with a mother and father?”
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The real gap isn’t between men and women doing the same job. It’s between the different jobs that men and women take.
Women earn “only 72 percent, as much as their male counterparts” is probably the most famous statistic about female workers in the U.S. But it is also famously false.
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A majority of adoptees in Japan are men in their 20′s and 30′s.
The highest adoption rates in the world are in the United States and Japan. But there is one big difference. Most adoptees in the U.S. are children, in Japan kids only represent 2% of all adoptions. Men in their 20s and 30s make up the remaining 98%, or almost 90,000 adoptees in 2008 (up from fewer than 80,000 in 2000). Why do the Japanese adopt so many adults?
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Men just don’t understand women.
It’s an old cliché that men don’t understand women. Now, new research suggests men really do struggle to read women’s emotions — at least from their eyes.
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Almost half of young women live with a guy without being married.
According to a government survey released this week, nearly half of young women say the first time they lived with a guy, they weren’t married.
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Research has shown that the differences between the male and female visual cortex means that men and women literally see the world differently. From differences in sensitivity to color, patterns, and hue to being more or less sensitive to movement against a pattern, understanding and making use of these differences in visual processing is essential to many fields such as advertising, manufacturing, and video development
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Women aged 75 and younger are dying at higher rates than previous years.
There is compelling evidence from a new study that the expectancy for some U.S. women is falling, a disturbing trend that experts can’t explain. The study found that women aged 75 and younger are dying at higher rates than previous years in nearly half of the nation’s counties. many of the women lived in rural areas and in the West and South. For men, life expectancy has held steady or improved in nearly all counties.
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The jobs where the gap is biggest pay more, on average, than the jobs where the gap is lowest.
On average, women are paid significantly less than men even when they are doing the same jobs. But the gap varies dramatically for workers in different jobs.
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Great male crisis
There is a huge debate in western societies regarding what is called “The great male crisis”. The argument is simple: Men are quickly falling behind women, In the western societies that promote gender equality and free education, women are becoming better educated than men and are earning more. Boys aren’t faring as well as girls in school and college education, and this is being reflected in the job market.
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Many studies have found that women tend to be more averse to risks and losses than men.
The world of business can be brutal and competitive. People often need to take high risks with big payoffs in order to succeed. Attitudes that are risk-taking attitudes are often seen as masculine. The language used to describe such behavior is riddled with phrases like “testosterone-charged” and “cowboys”. Women are seen as being more risk averse. And then there are articles that have asked if the financial crisis might have unfolded differently had women been in charge.
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