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Mooi-Reci, Irma; Mills, Melinda – Social Forces, 2012
This study examines whether a series of unemployment insurance benefit reforms that took place over a 20-year period in the Netherlands had a gendered effect on the duration of unemployment and labor market outcomes. Using longitudinal data from the Dutch Labor Supply Panel (OSA) over the period 1980-2000, and adopting a quasi-experimental design,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Unemployment, Insurance, Gender Differences
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Felson, Richard B.; Pare, Paul-Philippe – Social Forces, 2010
We use the National Violence against Women (and Men) Survey to examine the effects of region and race on the tendency to carry weapons for protection. We find that Southern and Western whites are much more likely than Northern whites to carry guns for self-protection, controlling for their risk of victimization. The difference between Southern and…
Descriptors: Weapons, Violence, Females, Whites
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Baumle, Amanda K.; Poston, Dudley, Jr. – Social Forces, 2011
This article builds on earlier studies that have examined "the economic cost of homosexuality," by using data from the 2000 U.S. Census and by employing multilevel analyses. Our findings indicate that partnered gay men experience a 12.5 percent earnings penalty compared to married heterosexual men, and a statistically insignificant earnings…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Census Figures, Males, Salaries
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Pudrovska, Tetyana – Social Forces, 2010
Using data from two waves of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (N = 8,054), I examine gender differences in psychological adjustment to cancer among older white adults. Results from different types of longitudinal models reveal that cancer has more adverse psychological implications for men than women. Men's higher levels of depression are reduced…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Females, Cancer, Gender Differences
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Shafer, Emily Fitzgibbons; Malhotra, Neil – Social Forces, 2011
We examine whether sex of child affects parents' beliefs about traditional gender roles. Using an improved methodological approach that explicitly analyzes the natural experiment via differences in differences, we find that having a daughter (vs. having a son) causes men to reduce their support for traditional gender roles, but a female child has…
Descriptors: Sex Role, Gender Differences, Stereotypes, Parent Attitudes
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Trent, Katherine; South, Scott J. – Social Forces, 2011
The relative numbers of women and men are changing dramatically in China, but the consequences of these imbalanced sex ratios have received little empirical attention. We merge data from the Chinese Health and Family Life Survey with community-level data from Chinese censuses to examine the relationship between cohort- and community-specific sex…
Descriptors: Females, Family Life, Foreign Countries, Males
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Simon, Robin W.; Lively, Kathryn – Social Forces, 2010
A social problem that has preoccupied sociologists of gender and mental health is the higher rate of depression found among women. Although a number of hypotheses about this health disparity between men and women have been advanced, none consider the importance of subjectively experienced anger. Drawing on theoretical and empirical insights from…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Females, Mental Health, Gender Differences
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Hopcroft, Rosemary L. – Social Forces, 2009
In this article I argue that evolutionary theorizing can help sociologists and feminists better understand gender inequality. Evolutionary theory explains why control of the sexuality of young women is a priority across most human societies both past and present. Evolutionary psychology has extended our understanding of male violence against…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Females, Interaction, Males
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Cavanagh, Shannon E. – Social Forces, 2011
This study examined whether the transition into adolescence, proxied by pubertal timing, shaped the transition into adulthood, proxied by union formation behaviors, among contemporary American women. In a sample drawn from Add Health (n = 7,523), early maturing girls reported an accelerated transition to marriage and cohabitation in young…
Descriptors: Females, Marriage, Adolescents, Developmental Stages
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Stockard, Jean; Gray, Jo Anna; O'Brien, Robert; Stone, Joe – Social Forces, 2009
We employ newly developed methods to disentangle age, period and cohort effects on non-marital fertility ratios from 1972 through 2002 for black and white women ages 20-44 in the United States. We focus on three cohort factors: family structure, school enrollment and the sex ratio. For both blacks and whites, cohorts with less traditional family…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Family Structure, Whites
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Crosnoe, Robert; Frank, Kenneth; Mueller, Anna Strassmann – Social Forces, 2008
To investigate the role of body size in social networks, this study estimated cross-nested multilevel network models (p2) with longitudinal data from the 16 saturated schools in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. As body mass index increased, the likelihood of being nominated by schoolmates as friends--but not the likelihood of…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Females, Friendship, Adolescents
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Dinovitzer, Ronit; Reichman, Nancy; Sterling, Joyce – Social Forces, 2009
This article seeks to identify the mechanisms underlying the gender wage gap among new lawyers. Relying on nationally representative data to examine the salaries of lawyers working fulltime in private practice, we find a gender gap of about 5 percent. Identifying four mechanisms--work profiles, opportunity paths and structures, credentials, and…
Descriptors: Credentials, Females, Salary Wage Differentials, Lawyers
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Schmutz, Vaughn; Faupel, Alison – Social Forces, 2010
This research examines the gendered nature of cultural legitimacy and consecration in popular music. We explore two related questions. First, which factors affect the likelihood that female performers achieve consecrated status? Second, how are those decisions discursively legitimated? Using a mixed-methods research design, we find that in both…
Descriptors: Music, Rhetoric, Musicians, Gender Differences
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Harknett, Kristen; Kuperberg, Arielle – Social Forces, 2011
Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study and the Current Population Survey, we find that labor market conditions play a large role in explaining the positive relationship between educational attainment and marriage. Our results suggest that if low-educated parents enjoyed the same, stronger labor market conditions as their…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Education Work Relationship, Surveys, Correlation
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Zhang, Jie – Social Forces, 2010
Suicides by young females in rural China contribute substantially to the high rate of suicide and the total number of suicides in China. Given the traditional familial structure that remains largely intact in rural China, this research focuses on whether being married is a risk or protective factor for suicide by young women. I examined 168 rural…
Descriptors: Marital Status, Females, Asian Culture, Suicide
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