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Future Of Women/Future Of Gender Relations

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December 08, 2011

Future Of Women/Future Of Gender Relations

Investigation of the claims of feminists and their detractors; questions about the future.

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December 08, 2011
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  1. The Future Of Women Originally “The Future Of Gender Relations”

    Wayne Radinsky Boulder Future Salon July 23rd, 2011
  2. Fact Checking • Each claim is presented in the form

    of a true/false quiz. Each claim is made either by “feminists” or their detractors (“anti-feminists”, “Mens Right Activists” (MRA's), religious conservatives, etc). • Try to guess the correct answer and then we will see what I was able to find on Google. • I tried to find impartial sources (sites not related to the issue) and authoritative sources where possible (often very difficult). Links to the sources are provided so you won't say I'm making stuff up.
  3. TRUE • The world has 947 billionaires according to FORBES.

    • 10 are women. • Therefore billionaires are 98.94% men, 1.06% women.
  4. Few enough women, you can name them each individually... •

    Alice Walton (Wal-Mart) $20.6 billion • Liliane Bettencourt (L'Oréal) $20.0 billion • Birgit Rausing (Tetra Laval) $13.0 billion • Savitri Jindal (Jindal Steel) $12.2 billion • Abigail Johnson (Fidelity Investments) $11.5 billion • Susanne Klatten (Altana) $11.1 billion • Iris Fontbona (Antofagasta) $11.0 billion
  5. ... • Jacqueline Mars (Mars, Inc) $11.0 billion • Anne

    Cox Chambers (Cox Enterprises) $10.0 billion • Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken (Heineken) $7.0 billion
  6. TRUE • The United States has 415 billionaires according to

    FORBES. • 4 of them are women. • Therefore US billionaires are 99.0% men, 1.0% women.
  7. ... • Alice Walton (Wal-Mart) $20.6 billion • Abigail Johnson

    (Fidelity Investments) $11.5 billion • Jacqueline Mars (Mars, Inc) $11.0 billion • Anne Cox Chambers (Cox Enterprises) $10.0 billion
  8. TRUE • 15 FORTUNE 500 companies are run by women.

    • Therefore, FORTUNE 500 CEO's are 97% men, 3% women.
  9. So few women you can name them • Brenda Barnes

    (Sara Lee) • Carol Bartz (Yahoo) • Angela Braly (WellPoint) • Ursula Burns (Xerox) • Lynn Elsenhans (Sunoco) • Christina Gold (Reynolds American) • Andrea Jung (Avon)
  10. ... • Ellen Kullman (DuPont) • Carol Meyrowitz (TJX) •

    Indra Nooyi (PepsiCo) • Mary Sammons (Rite Aid) • Laura Sen (BJ's Wholesale Club) • Patricia Woertz (Archer Daniels Midland)
  11. TRUE • The US House Of Representatives has 432 members.

    • 72 are women. • Therefore, the House is 83.3% men, 16.7% women. • The Senate has 100 members. • 17 are women. • Therefore, the Senate is 83% men, 17% women.
  12. TRUE • For the Top 100 grossing films of 2007:

    • 97.3% of directors were men (2.7% women) • 88.8% of writers were men (11.2% women) • 79.5% of producers were men (20.5% women), and • 70.1% of speaking characters in the films were male (29.9% were female).
  13. TRUE • “During 2010, median weekly earnings of female full-time

    workers were $669, compared with male median weekly earnings of $824. Based on these data, the ratio of women’s to men’s median weekly earnings was 81.2.” • “Another measure of the earnings gap, the ratio of women’s and men’s median annual earnings for full-time year- round workers, was 77.0 in 2009 (data for 2010 are not yet available).”
  14. TRUE • “In 2008, male physicians newly trained in New

    York State made on average $16,819 more than newly trained female physicians.” • The gender gap “cannot be explained by specialty choice, practice setting, work hours, or other characteristics.”
  15. True or False? Women do more of the world's work

    and produce more of the world's food than men, yet earn and own less of the world's wealth.
  16. TRUE • “Women perform 66 percent of the world’s work,

    produce 50 percent of the food, but earn 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property.” (UNICEF)
  17. TRUE • “What we found across all the studies is

    men were always less willing to work with a woman who had attempted to negotiate than with a woman who did not. They always preferred to work with a woman who stayed mum. But it made no difference to the men whether a guy had chosen to negotiate or not.”
  18. TRUE • “National data in recent years show a 57%-43%

    split favoring women, both in enrollments and graduation rates.” • Hanna Rosin in her talk said 60% – she could have a more recent figure than what I was able to find independently.
  19. TRUE • “In Seattle, about 20 percent of elementary teachers

    are men, a bit higher than the statewide average of 17 percent.” • “At the University of Washington, usually only 12 percent to 15 percent of the students coming through the elementary prep teaching program are men.”
  20. True or False? Women in the US earn more postgraduate

    degrees (masters degrees, MD, DDS, law degrees, PhD, EdD, etc) than men.
  21. True except for MD/DDS/law degrees • Associate's degrees – 62.1%

    • Bachelor's degrees – 57.2% • Master's degrees – 60.4% • MD, DDS & law degrees – 49.0% • Doctoral degrees (PhD, EdD, etc) – 52.3% • (data from 2008-9 school year)
  22. Percentage of computer science degrees awarded to women • 1984

    – 37.1% • 1990 – 29.9% • 1998 – 26.7% • 2005 – 22.0% • 2008 – 17.6%
  23. True or False? Unmarried young women in the United States

    who have no children earn more than men.
  24. TRUE • “In 2008, single, childless women between ages 22

    and 30 were earning more than their male counterparts in most U.S. cities, with incomes that were 8% greater on average, according to an analysis of Census Bureau data released Wednesday by Reach Advisors, a consumer-research firm in Slingerlands, N.Y.”
  25. ... • “According to a new analysis of 2,000 communities

    by a market research company, in 147 out of 150 of the biggest cities in the U.S., the median full-time salaries of young women are 8% higher than those of the guys in their peer group. In two cities, Atlanta and Memphis, those women are making about 20% more. This squares with earlier research from Queens College, New York, that had suggested that this was happening in major metropolises. But the new study suggests that the gap is bigger than previously thought, with young women in New...
  26. (cont'd) • ...with young women in New York City, Los

    Angeles and San Diego making 17%, 12% and 15% more than their male peers, respectively. And it also holds true even in reasonably small areas like the Raleigh-Durham region and Charlotte in North Carolina (both 14% more), and Jacksonville, Fla. (6%).”
  27. TRUE • This was true for managerial positions where I

    could find data. • Percentage of managers who are women in various industries: – Medical and health services managers – 69.5% – Social and community service managers – 69.4% – Human resources managers – 66.8% – Advertising and promotions managers – 56.5% – Financial managers – 54.7%
  28. TRUE • Married couple – 58% • Single female –

    20% • Single male – 12% • Unmarried couple – 8% • Other – 2% • (Data for 2010 from National Association of Realtors) • So, women are 54% of home buyers.
  29. TRUE • “American women are responsible for 83 percent of

    all consumer purchases; they hold 89 percent of U.S. bank accounts, 51 percent of all personal wealth.”
  30. TRUE • Percentage of people who never married by age

    44: • 1970 – men 4.9%, women 6.3% • 2000 – men 15.7%, women 10.9% • 2010 – men 20.4%, women 13.8%
  31. True or False? Most divorces in the United States are

    initiated by women (that is, women do the initial divorce filing).
  32. TRUE • 70% of divorces are initiated by women, according

    to a massive study in 2000 of 46,000 divorce cases across 4 states. • A survey of other studies by the same researchers going back to the 1960's show that women have initiated divorce in the US more than 2/3rds of the time in most states and decades that were studied.
  33. TRUE • Child custody is awarded to the mother in

    70% of cases, • is joint custody in 20% of cases, • and is awarded to the father in 10% of cases.
  34. True or False? Women in the US receive alimony more

    often than men, even when differences in earnings are taken into account.
  35. TRUE • “The percentage of alimony recipients who are male

    rose to 3.6% during the five years ending in 2006.” (Wall Street Journal) • So the recepient is female 96.4% of the time. • “In 2005 (the latest year for which data are available), wives outearned their husbands in 33% of all families.” • So, based on earnings, you would expect alimony recipients to be women 66% of the time, not 96.4% of the time.
  36. True or False? Men and women initiate domestic violence in

    the US in equal amounts, but women get injured more because men are larger and stronger.
  37. FALSE • The first part is false but almost true,

    the second part is true. • Men are responsible for initiating domestic violence 59% of the time, not 50%. (From the CDC). • Women get 74% of the injuries requiring medical attention, not 59%. • This is according to the researcher's definitions of domestic violence – not the legal definition from the Violence Against Women's Act of 1994 (VAWA).
  38. ... • “692 women and 546 men aged 18-44 years

    were interviewed. Among women, 43 reported being the victim of a physically violent act by an intimate partner during the preceding year. Of women reporting such violence, 26 reported being shoved, grabbed, or slapped; 17 reported being kicked, bitten, punched, or beaten or threatened/assaulted with a knife, gun, or other object. In comparison, 29 men reported physical violence by an intimate partner, of whom 13 reported more severe forms of violence. Among women reporting physical violence by an intimate partner, ...
  39. ... • … Among women reporting physical violence by an

    intimate partner, 23 reported injuries to their head or face or injuries causing pain on other parts of the body lasting longer than 1 hour; 4 men who experienced physical violence reported being injured. During the 12 months preceding the survey, medical attention to treat injuries sustained from such violence was sought by 7 women and 2 men.”
  40. TRUE • 8 percent of women and 2 percent of

    men in the United States have been stalked at some time in their life. • 1 out of every 12 U.S. women (8.2 million) has been stalked at some time in her life, and 1 out of every 45 U.S. men (2 million) has been stalked at some time in his life. • (1998 NVAW survey)
  41. TRUE • Males in the United States committed suicide 3.93

    times more than females in 2005. (17.7 per 100,000 vs 4.5 per 100,000).
  42. TRUE • Life expectancy in the US is 75.6 years

    for men, 80.8 years for women.
  43. TRUE • 76% of the homeless population is single men.

    • Women, married men and male children are part of the other 24%.
  44. True or False? Men in the US are victims of

    violence more than women (rape excluded).
  45. TRUE • Men are victims of homicide 3.9 times more

    than women in the United States (9.0 vs 2.3 homicides per 100,000 population, data from 2005).
  46. 2 memorable examples: • April 5th, 2010: Explosion in Masey

    Energy's Upper Big Branch mine in Virgina • 29 people dead...
  47. ... • Christopher Bell, Edward Dean Jones, Ronald Lee Maynor,

    Joe Marcum, Greg Brock, William "Griff" Griffith, Ricky Workman, Howard "Boone" Payne Jr., Steven J. Harrah, Benny Ray Willingham, Carl "Pee Wee" Acord, Deward Allan Scott, Robert E. Clark, William R. Lynch, Jason Atkins, Joe Price, Mike Elswick, Adam Morgan, Tim Davis, Cory Davis, Richard Lane, Rex Mullins, Nick McCroskey, Josh Napper, Dillard Persinger, Gary Wayne Quarles, Grover Skeens, Kenneth Chapman, James Mooney
  48. ... • April 20, 2010: The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig

    operated by BP in the Gulf Of Mexico explodes. • 11 people died...
  49. ... • Jason Anderson, Aaron Burkeen, Donald Clark Sr, Stephen

    Curtis, Gordon Jones, Roy Kemp, Karl, Kleppinger Jr, Keith Manuel, Dewey Revette, Shane Roshto, Adam T. Weise.
  50. True or False? Women in the US Army die at

    a lower frequency than men.
  51. TRUE • 13.4% of active US Army personnel are women.

    • In Iraq, 3107 men and 83 women soldiers died between March 19, 2003 and February 6, 2010. • So the percentage of soldiers that died that were women was 2.6%. • 30% of US Army positions are closed for women.
  52. True or False? The poorest women on the titanic had

    a better survival rate than the richest men.
  53. TRUE • The survival rate for first-class men was 34%

    (55 survived, 104 died). The survival rate for third class (steerage) women was 49% (88 survived, 91 died). • The survival rate for all men was 19% and the survival rate for all women was 72%. • The survival rate for first-class women was 97%.
  54. True or False? Women estimate higher rates of non-paternity (when

    the person presumed to be the dad actually isn't) than men.
  55. TRUE • “A sex difference was observed across four community

    samples of Austrian adults (totalling 763 men and 795 women), with women overall providing higher human non-paternity estimates than men (14.5% versus 9.1%).”
  56. TRUE • This comes from a 1991 pre-natal study in

    Edinburgh, UK, published in The Lancet, the peer- reviewed British medical journal, in 1991. (Unfortunately, it is behind a paywall. You have to pay $31.50 to get the data.) • This study appears to be the most important because it was done on all the babies born during the study, while most paternity testing is done only when paternity is in doubt (and finds much higher non- paternity rates).
  57. TRUE • This was determined by using techniques in genetics

    for determining what is called "effective population size" (size of past population that is represented in the current gene pool) and applying it to the sex- dependent parts of the human genome (mitochondrial DNA and the Y chromosome). The results show that humans have approximately twice as many female ancestors as male.
  58. THE FUTURE? • Will relations between men and women continue

    to become more and more antagonistic? – Why was Hanna Rosin's TED Talk the most disliked TED Talk ever? – Feminism vs anti-feminism to become a major cultural divide like liberalism vs conservatism? – Women and men in different information bubbles (women reading Cosmo, men reading Maxim, etc) hearing about the problems of their own gender and the advantages of the other, and rarely vice- versa?
  59. THE FUTURE? • 3 possibilities with respect to women's continued

    advancement in education and business: – Women continue to advance indefinitely – Women advance to a certain point and stop – Women advance to a certain point, then the trend will reverse
  60. THE FUTURE? • Will women advance in the very top

    ranks of society – billionaires, CEO's, Hollywood directors, members of congress? Or will women's advancement apply only to the middle of society – college degrees, etc? • If the top of society becomes gender-balanced, will the bottom of society (homeless, prisoners, etc) also become gender-balanced?
  61. THE FUTURE? • Is the United States at the leading

    edge of these changes? Will these changes propagate throughout the world? • How can a futurist hope to predict what will happen without knowing why these changes are happening now? Just about any “why” explanation will rely on some type of gender stereotype and will be politically incorrect.
  62. Claims I was unable to verify... • Claim: 75% of

    people using in-vitro fertilization in the US are requesting girls, not boys. Verdict: Unable to find data (from anyone other than Hanna Rosin) • Claim: Most advertising dollars are directed at women. Verdict: Unable to find data (but probably true: see the item on consumer spending). • Claim: Women receive favorable treatment in venture capital funding. Verdict: Unable to find data.
  63. Unable to verify (cont'd) • Claim: Men commit suicide at

    an extremely high rate following divorces. Verdict: Unable to find data. • Claim: Pornography causes rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment. Verdict: Unable to determine, data was contradictory. • Claim: Women find only about 10% of men truly attractive (“Alpha” males). Verdict: Unable to find data.
  64. Unable to verify (cont'd) • Claim: States that don't publish

    their divorce rates have divorce rates over 70%. Verdict: Unable to find data. • Claim: Following divorce, the woman's standard of living plummets by X percent while that of the man's improves by Y percent. (X and Y vary). Verdict: Unable to find data. • Claim: Men receive more severe punishment from the legal system for the same crimes. Verdict: Unable to find data.
  65. Unable to verify (cont'd) • Claim: Every civilization that became

    female- dominated in history collapsed shortly thereafter. Verdict: Unable to determine, unable to define exactly which “civilizations” in “history” became “female dominated” (though we can agree on which collapsed: the (Western) Roman Empire, the Chou dynasty in China, the Harappan, Mesopotamia, the Egyptian Old Kingdom, the Hittite empire, the Minoan, the Mycenaean, the Olmec, the Chacoans, the Hohokam, the Hurari and Tiahuanaco, the Kachin, etc).
  66. Unable to verify (cont'd) • Claim: Iceland is the world's

    first modern “matriarchal” society: The head of state is female, the majority of the legislature is female, and since the 2008 financial crisis, women have been installed as heads of all the banks and financial institutions. Verdict: I was able to verify that Iceland does have a female head of state (Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir) but could not verify the other claims.
  67. Unable to verify (cont'd) • Claim: Before high school graduation,

    the average child sees more than 50,000 hours of television. 97% of characters killed on television are men. Verdict: Unable to find data on fictional TV homicides. • Claim: Single women are better parents than single men, as measured by grades in school and standardized test scores and lack of delinquency and drug abuse. Lesbian couples are better parents than a heterosexual male/female married couple. Verdict: Unable to find data.
  68. Unable to verify (cont'd) • Boys do worse than girls

    at all levels in school. Boys do worse than girls in elementary school, middle school, high school, college, and graduate school. More boys are held back and each level and fewer graduate and progress to the next level at each statge. Verdict: could not find data for every segment of the educational process, only for college graduate and postgraduate degrees.