The Gender Wage Gap in the United States and Cross Nationally

Misra, Joya; Murray‐Close, Marta

doi:10.1111/soc4.12213

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“…While research on the gender wage gap suggested that much of “women's gains” are better understood as “men's losses” (e.g. Bernhardt, Morris and Handcock ; Misra and Murray‐Close ), on the domestic front, some of men's gains might be similarly understood as women's losses (see Figure ).…”

Section: Marriageability Among Middle‐ and Upper‐class Menmentioning

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On the Marriageability of Men

Bridges

Boyd

2016

Sociology Compass

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The “marriageability of men” is an argument used in sociological research to understand demographic changes in marriage and to analyze social dynamics associated with gender, race, class, family, the workplace, incarceration, and more. While some are marrying later and others are foregoing marriage altogether, a lack of marriageable men is often part of the argument concerning new patterns of family formation in the United States. Research mobilizing the marriageability of men hypothesis spans a great deal of subfields of sociological research, not all in conversation with one another – and not all explicitly making use of the term. This article collects these diverse strands of thought and presents an argument for how and why men are less marriageable, what this means, and why it means different things for different groups of men and women. Racialized and classed conceptions of masculinity create different kinds of struggles for different groups of men and work against their marriageability for different reasons. We discuss the impact of incarceration, new struggles in a service economy, and shifts in women's perceptions and expectations of what qualifies men as “marriageable.”

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Section: Marriageability Among Middle‐ and Upper‐class Menmentioning

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On the Marriageability of Men

Bridges

Boyd

2016

Sociology Compass

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“…Both structural and cultural factors play a role in maintaining the relationship between parenthood and gender‐traditional work and family arrangements. State policies that support male breadwinner and female caregiver families (Crompton, ; Lewis, ), a gender wage gap that favors men (Misra & Murray‐Close, ), the ability to access quality paid child care (Boeckmann et al, 2014), and the availability of cultural support for working mothers or caregiving fathers (Boeckmann et al, ; Kramer & Kramer, ) all influence parents' participation in paid work and caregiving.…”

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Signs of Change? At‐Home and Breadwinner Parents' Housework and Child‐Care Time

Chesley

Flood

2016

J of Marriage and Family

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We analyze American Time Use Survey (ATUS) data to examine patterns in domestic work among at-home and breadwinner parents to further gauge how time availability, relative earnings, and gender shape time use in couples with extreme differences in earnings and work hours. We find that involvement in female-typed housework is an important driver of overall housework time. It is counter-normative housework behavior by at-home fathers that shapes conclusions about how time availability, relative resources, and gender influence parents’ housework. While time availability appears to shape child care in comparable ways across parents, mothers are more engaged in child care than similarly-situated fathers. Overall, our comparisons point to the importance of distinguishing among gender-normative housework tasks and accounting for differences in engagement on work and non-work days. Our results also provide a basis for assessing the social significance of growing numbers of parents in work-family roles that are not gender-normative.

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“…If one were just to eyeball a chart showing average wages over time, 5 one would see that white men earn more than white women, and more than black and Latino men, whereas these latter groups in turn earn more than black women and Latina women. 6 However, despite superficial appearances, the data on pay gaps don't approximate an additive account (Greenman & Xie 2008;Misra & Murray-Close 2014). Specifically, the gender pay gap is larger between white men and white women than it is between men and women of other groups, and the racial pay gap is larger among men than it is among women.…”

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Intersectionality as a Regulative Ideal

Gasdaglis¹,

Madva²

2020

Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy

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What is the intersectional thesis a thesis about? Some understand it as a claim about the metaphysics of oppression, social kinds, or experience; about the limits of antidiscrimination law or identity politics; or about the importance of fuzzy sets and multifactor analysis in social science. We argue, however, that intersectionality, interpreted as a thesis in any particular theoretical domain, faces regress problems. We propose that headway on these and other questions can be made when intersectionality is modeled as a regulative ideal, i.e., a guiding methodological and practical principle, and not as a general theory or hypothesis. Qua ideal, intersectionality requires activists and inquirers to treat existing classification schemes as if they are indefinitely mutually informing, with the specific aim of revealing and resisting inequality and injustice. Qua regulative, intersectionality points to a rich and expanding set of heuristics for guiding social-scientific research and the construction of multifaceted political coalitions. A ppeals to intersectionality serve to remind us that social categories like race and gender cannot be adequately understood independently from each other. But what, exactly, is the intersectional thesis a thesis about? Answers to this question are remarkably diverse. Intersectionality is variously understood as a claim about the nature of social kinds, oppression, or experience (Cole 2009;

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The Gender Wage Gap in the United States and Cross Nationally

Cited by 42 publications

References 128 publications

On the Marriageability of Men

On the Marriageability of Men

Signs of Change? At‐Home and Breadwinner Parents' Housework and Child‐Care Time

Intersectionality as a Regulative Ideal

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