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Gender Pay Gap Persists
at CEO Level, Too

Women CEOs still earn up to two-thirds less than male chief execs

BusinessWeek BusinessWeek Nov 9, 08 2:32 PM CST
(Newser) - When it comes to equal pay for equal work, female CEOs have yet to level the playing field, either, blogs Jena McGregor in BusinessWeek . Women at the top today earn 85% of what their male counterparts make—$1.75 million compared with $2.1 million at the median—even though their base salaries are higher, a new report shows. The gap is widest at large firms, where female chiefs earn two-thirds that of male execs. More »

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Critics Rip Gender Gap in Health Insurance Charges

Advocates call for an end to higher premiums for women

New York Times New York Times Oct 30, 08 3:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Health advocates and some politicians are crying foul over the huge price difference between men's and women's health insurance, the New York Times reports. Healthy young women are regularly charged up to 50% more than their male counterparts, even when maternity care is excluded. The practice is prohibited under job-based insurance plans, but is standard in the individual insurance market. More »

ANALYSIS

Six Key Misconceptions About Women Voters

Top of the list: females not a unified voting bloc

MSNBC MSNBC Oct 26, 08 7:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - The campaigns are desperate to know what makes women voters tick, but much political thinking is still marred by gross misconceptions about the key group. MSNBC lists the most egregious: Women are a homogenous voting bloc. Not only do they not share a common geography, attitude or philosophy, but even categories like “soccer mom” and “security mom” fail to accurately capture the groups they describe. Women vote less often. While unmarried females vote less than their married counterparts, women vote more often than men. More »

More about:  Election 2008 • list • women • female voters • gender gap • hockey mom • misconception

 Gaming Industry Slow 
 to Find Its Feminine Side 

Under 20% of workers are women—a demographic games have barely tapped, either

Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Oct 21, 08 9:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - The video-game industry has yet to really tap into the female audience, the Los Angeles Times reports, and a big reason looks to be how male-dominated the business is. Women make up fewer than 20% of the industry’s total workforce, and a mere 3% of programmers. Some fault education, while others blame a “college fraternity” atmosphere, including recruiting parties that have strippers. More »

More about:  women • Electronic Arts • gaming • video games • gender gap

US Culture Stifles Girls' Math Skills

Smaller countries
that nurture students have more prodigies

Boston Globe Boston Globe Oct 10, 08 4:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - The women who have won the world's most elite math competitions come disproportionately from small countries with computation-friendly cultures, such as Bulgaria and Romania, a new study finds. The reason the US lags isn't related to talent, but rather to culture. Americans don't value math enough to put kids on track for high potential, reports the Boston Globe . More »

More about:  education • mathematics • gender gap • mathematicians • aptitude

 Girls=Boys in Math, Says Study

Gender gap discovered in the 1970s has been closed, researchers say

San Jose Mercury News San Jose Mercury News Jul 24, 08 6:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Girls are just as good as boys at math, says an exhaustive study of 7 million test scores from elementary through high school students, the San Jose Mercury News reports. The findings, to be published tomorrow in Science , are at odds with 30-year-old studies—and a view entrenched in our culture—that say males have a superior aptitude for figuring. More »

More about:  college • high school • scientific study • mathematics • gender gap • test score • gender stereotypes

 More Women
 Remove Tattoos
 Than Men 

Social stigma may play a role in pressuring ladies to de-ink

Washington Post Washington Post Jul 22, 08 12:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - About 6% of tattoo recipients will eventually remove their ink, and the great majority of those are women, a new survey shows. Although women make up about half of the body art market, 69% of those undergoing laser removal are female, reports the Washington Post . That may be due to the social stigma of tattoos for women or negative comments directed at them. More »

More about:  tattoos • gender gap

Norway
Shatters Its
Glass Ceiling

Nation requires 40%
of big companies' boards to be female

Guardian (UK) Guardian (UK) Mar 6, 08 5:44 PM CST
(Newser) - A state-mandated shattering of Norway's glass ceiling is drastically changing gender balance in boardrooms there—and not without some resistance, the Guardian reports. A law that 40% of non-executive board directorships at larger firms must go to women went into effect Feb. 22—and though a dozen Norwegian companies failed to fill the quota, an astounding 451 out of 463 did. More »

More about:  business • Norway • CEOs • gender discrimination • gender gap • board of directors • glass ceiling • gender in business • sex ratio

Girls Take Top Science Honors for 1st Time

They beat the boys
in prestigious
Siemens contest

BusinessWeek BusinessWeek Dec 5, 07 6:40 PM CST
(Newser) - For the first time in the 9-year-old contest, high school girls have won both top honors at the Siemens Competition in science. The individual prize of $100,000 went to a Pennsylvania girl whose research into bone growth was deemed to be at graduate student level by the judges. She was proud to help reverse the male domination of math, science and computers, BusinessWeek reports. More »

More about:  mathematics • gender gap • tuberculosis

So Many Men, So Much Frustration

Asian gender gap will see millions without mates, stall economies

Bloomberg Bloomberg Nov 2, 07 8:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - A growing gender gap spells trouble for Asian markets, where scholars predict that a glut of men without partners—Chinese and Indian men will outnumber women by more than 20 million each in 2030—will have a cascade of unintended consequences, economic as well as social.  Sexual violence and prostitution are predicted to spike; crime will rise and productivity decline, Bloomberg reports. Trafficking in mates would not be surprising. More »

More about:  China • United Nations • India • Asia • human trafficking • gender gap • sexual violence

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