Item # | Topic/Issue | Summary | Nation(s) | Year(s) | Citation | Institution(s) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Feminism | 20% feminists, 82% equal rights believers |
United States | 2013 | Omnibus Poll | Huffington Post/YouGov | details |
2 | Violence, Sexual | Both sexes are raped equally (1.27M vs. 1.267M) |
United States | 2010 | National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, 2010 Summary Report | Center for Disease Control | details |
3 | Income | 70%+ of wage gap is based on choice |
United States | 2010 | Dynamics Of The Gender Gap For Young Professionals In The Financial And Corporate Sectors. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2, 2(3), 228-255. doi:10.3386/w14681 | University of Chicago, NBER, Harvard (respectively) | details |
4 | Income | No wage gap when assessed by occupation |
United States | 2008 | An analysis of the reasons for the disparity in wages between men and women: final report | US Dept of Labor | details |
5 | Income | only 7% unexplained wage gap |
United States | 2013 | Graduating to a Pay Gap, p. 1 | AAUW | details |
6 | Income | only 6-7% unexplained wage gap |
United States | 2009 | An analysis of the reasons for the disparity in wages between men and women: final report | US Dept of Labor | details |
7 | Income | only 7% unexplained wage gap |
United States | 2009 | Testimony of Andrew Sherrill, p. 88 | US Government Accountability Office | details |
8 | Income | No wage gap when total compensation taken into account |
United States | 2009 | An analysis of the reasons for the disparity in wages between men and women: final report | US Dept of Labor | details |
9 | Income | Men penalized more & longer for taking time off of work |
United States | 2009 | An analysis of the reasons for the disparity in wages between men and women: final report | US Dept of Labor | details |
10 | Income | Women 20-29 who are unmarried and unchilded earn 5-20% more than their male counterparts (in large cities) |
United States | 2010 | A Glimpse into the Postcrash Environment | Reach Advisors | details |
11 | Income | Women 22-30 who are unmarried and unchilded earn ~8% more than their male counterparts |
United States | 2000 | The NLSY79 | US Bureau of Labor Statistics | details |
12 | Income | Women 22-30 who are unmarried and unchilded earn up to 40% more than their male counterparts (in large cities) |
United States | 2011 | The End of Men | Reach Advisors | details |
13 | Rape Culture | 0.61% of female, 0.14% of male college students raped in an academic year |
United States | 2014 | Rape and Sexual Assault Victimization Among College-Age Females, p. 1 | US Dept of Justice | details |
14 | Rape Culture | Only 28 years (1977) since rape not punishable by death |
United States | 1978 | Coker v. Georgia: Disproportionate Punishment and the Death Penalty for Rape | Columbia Law | details |
15 | Rape Culture | 10% of executions from 1930-1977 were for rape |
United States | 1998 | The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies, p. 6 | unknown | details |
16 | Rape Culture | Rape punishable by death |
Ancient Egypt | 1914 | Sex Morals and the Law in Ancient Egypt and Babylon, p. 22 | Northwestern Law | details |
17 | Rape Culture | Rape punishable by death |
Ancient Babylon | 1914 | Sex Morals and the Law in Ancient Egypt and Babylon, p. 22 | Northwestern Law | details |
18 | Rape Culture | Rape punishable by death |
Ancient Rome | 1991 | Women in Roman Law and Society, p. 118 | University of Reading | details |
19 | Rape Culture | Rape victims legally blameless |
Ancient Rome | 1998 | From Good Goddess to Vestal Virgins: Sex and Category in Roman Religion, p. 81. | details | |
20 | Violence, Sexual | Up until 2013, the FBI's definition of rape explicitly excluded perpetration against men |
United States | 2012 | Frequently Asked Questions about the Change in the UCR Definition of Rape | US Dept of Justice | details |
21 | Rape Culture | 3-5% women raped/attempted rape on campuses |
United States | 1982 | Hidden Rape: Sexual Aggression and Victimization in a National Sample of Students in Higher Education | Kent State University | details |
22 | Rape Culture | 2.5% college women sexually assaulted (including verbal threats and unwanted sexual grabbing/fondling) |
United States | 2003 | Violent Victimization of College Students | US Dept of Justice | details |
23 | Violence, Sexual | 80% of men raped had female rapists |
United States | 2010 | National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, 2010 Summary Report | Center for Disease Control | details |
24 | Violence, Sexual | 46% of men raped had female rapists |
United States | 2010 | Male Sexual Victimization Examining Men's Experiences of Rape and Sexual Assault | West Virginia University | details |
25 | Violence, Sexual | 95% of rapes in Juvenile Facilities perpetrated by women |
United States | 2010 | Sexual Victimization in Juvenile Facilities Reported by Youth | US Dept of Justice | details |
26 | Violence, Sexual | More rape in prison than without (209,400 vs. 203,830) |
United States | 2008 | Compare: Prison Rape Elimination Act Regulatory Impact Assessment, p. 2 to National Crime Victimization Survey, p. 1 | US Dept of Justice | details |
27 | Violence, Sexual | Lesbian relationships: 48% raped by partner at some point (i.e. - rape has little to do with masculinity) |
United States | 1992 | Violent Betrayal: Partner Abuse in Lesbian Relationships | University of Kentucky | details |
28 | Rape Culture | 0.03% of population reported incidents of rape/attempted rape (in the given year) |
United States | 2013 | Crime in the United States, Table 4 | US Dept of Justice | details |
29 | Rape Culture | 0.02% of population reported incidents of rape/attempted rape (370/180,000; in the given year) |
United States | 2013 | National Crime Victimization Survey, 2013 (ICPSR 35164) | US Dept of Justice | details |
30 | Rape Culture | 6.7% of people raped at least once in their life |
United States | 2007 | Prevalence and characteristics of sexual violence victimization among U.S. adults, 2001-2003 | details | |
31 | Violence, Sexual | 92% female rape victims raped by intimate partner/acquaintance |
United States | 2010 | National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, 2010 Summary Report | Center for Disease Control | details |
32 | False Rape | Forcible rape claims are "proven to be false" 4x more than any other Index crime (8% vs. 2%), |
United States | 1992 | Crime Index Offenses Reported, p. 24 | US Dept of Justice | details |
33 | False Rape | The "2% claims are false" statistic is unfounded |
United States | 2000 | The Truth behind Legal Dominance Feminism's Two Percent False Rape Claim Figure, p. 951 | Loyola Law | details |
34 | False Rape | No figure given on % of false rape charges (high or low) is usable |
United States | 2006 | False Allegations of Rape | Cambridge Law Journal | details |
35 | Genital Mutilation | Circumcised boys are more likely than intact boys to develop ASD before age 10 years (controlled for cultural background) |
Denmark | 2014 | Ritual circumcision and risk of autism spectrum disorder in 0- to 9-year-old boys: national cohort study in Denmark | Department of Epidemiology Research | details |
36 | Feminist Activism | Feminist groups (not husbands) oppose shared parenting legislation |
United States | 1997 | Action Alert: HB 4564 - Mandated Joint Custody | National Organization for Women | details |
37 | Incarceration | 13x more men (1,458,363) than women (112,498) incarcerated |
United States | 2006 | How Do Judges Decide?: The Search for Fairness and Justice in Punishment, p. 143 | Arizona State University | details |
38 | Incarceration | 95% of convicted men vs 76.4% of convicted women incarcerated for violent crimes |
United States | 2003 | How Do Judges Decide?: The Search for Fairness and Justice in Punishment, p. 143 | Arizona State University | details |
39 | Incarceration | >2x sentencing for men (90.7 mo) than women (42.5 mo) |
United States | 2003 | How Do Judges Decide?: The Search for Fairness and Justice in Punishment, p. 144 | Arizona State University | details |
40 | Incarceration | 42% male sentences were prison vs 27% female |
United States | 2003 | How Do Judges Decide?: The Search for Fairness and Justice in Punishment, p. 145 | Arizona State University | details |
41 | Incarceration | Male sentencing 45% higher than female (61 mo vs. 42 mo) |
United States | 2007 | How Do Judges Decide?: The Search for Fairness and Justice in Punishment, p. 146 | Arizona State University | details |
42 | Incarceration | 1.5% of those on death row are women (51 of 3,228) |
United States | 2007 | How Do Judges Decide?: The Search for Fairness and Justice in Punishment, p. 147 | Arizona State University | details |
43 | Incarceration | men 60-70% more likely to be incarcerated for same crime ("possession of drugs with intent to deliver") with same criminal history ("no prior felony convictions") |
United States | 1993 | How Do Judges Decide?: The Search for Fairness and Justice in Punishment, p. 151 | Arizona State University | details |
44 | Incarceration | men 70-80% more likely to be incarcerated for same crime ("possession of drugs") with same criminal history ("no prior felony convictions") |
United States | 1993 | How Do Judges Decide?: The Search for Fairness and Justice in Punishment, p. 151 | Arizona State University | details |
45 | Incarceration | males 71% more likely to be incarcerated |
United States | 2006 | How Do Judges Decide?: The Search for Fairness and Justice in Punishment, p. 155 | Arizona State University | details |
46 | Incarceration | males sentences 20% longer |
United States | 2006 | How Do Judges Decide?: The Search for Fairness and Justice in Punishment, p. 155 | Arizona State University | details |
47 | Incarceration | women significantly less likely than men to be detained in jail before trial |
United States | 1998 | How Do Judges Decide?: The Search for Fairness and Justice in Punishment, p. 156 | Arizona State University | details |
48 | Incarceration | 2x more likely to be sentenced to prison |
United States | 2004 | How Do Judges Decide?: The Search for Fairness and Justice in Punishment, p. 157 | Arizona State University | details |
49 | Incarceration | 25-30% longer sentences for men |
United States | 2004 | How Do Judges Decide?: The Search for Fairness and Justice in Punishment, p. 157 | Arizona State University | details |
50 | Incarceration | Male parents receive 30% (103.05 vs 79.2 mo) longer sentences than female parents |
United States | 2006 | How Do Judges Decide?: The Search for Fairness and Justice in Punishment, p. 158 | Arizona State University | details |
51 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Women 70% of perpetrators of non-reciprocal IPV |
United States | 2006 | Differences in Frequency of Violence and Reported Injury Between Relationships With Reciprocal and Nonreciprocal Intimate Partner Violence | American Journal of Public Health | details |
52 | Health | Men majority of 8 out of 10 most prevalent cancers (women majority in breast (gender-specific) and thyroid (which, at 3%, has the lowest mortality rate of all cancers represented at this source) |
United States | 2014 | Cancer Stat Fact Sheets | National Cancer Institute | details |
53 | Income | Women work 93% the hours men work (FTEs) |
United States | 2014 | American Time Use Survey | Bureau of Labor Statistics | details |
54 | Feminist Activism | Feminist group supports anonymity for accuser, oppose anonymity for accused |
United Kingdom | 2015 | No to anonymity for men accused of rape | Women Against Rape | details |
55 | Economic Power | 75% of household purchases are controlled by women |
United States | 2009 | Press Release | Mediamark Research and Intelligence | details |
56 | Parenthood | 30% of men who suspect they're not biological fathers are right |
international | 2006 | How well does paternity confidence match actual paternity? Evidence from worldwide nonpaternity rates | University of Michigan | details |
57 | Feminist Activism | Feminist group supports anonymity for accuser, oppose anonymity for accused |
United Kingdom | 2010 | We OBJECT to plans to grant anonymity to rape defendants | London Feminist Network | details |
58 | Violence | Men (18+) more likely to experience violence (8.7% vs 5.3%) |
Australia | 2012 | Measuring the Prevalence of Violence | Bureau of Statistics | details |
59 | Violence, Sexual | 1.2% of women (18+) experienced sexual violence that year |
Australia | 2012 | Measuring the Prevalence of Violence | Bureau of Statistics | details |
60 | Feminist Activism | Feminist group advocates for closing of women's prisons & replacing with rehabilitation initiatives; no mention of male prisoners |
United Kingdom | 2011 | Reforming Women’s Justice | Prison Reform Trust | details |
61 | Genital Mutilation | Of the 20% of circumcised men who experience change in sexuality, 2x more likely to be diminished than improved |
South Korea | 2002 | Extraordinarily high rates of male circumcision in South Korea: history and underlying causes | Institute of Reproductive Medicine and Population | details |
62 | Parenthood | Boys and girls similar victims of child abuse (48% vs. 51.5%) |
United States | 2001 | Child Maltreatment 2001 | Dept of Health and Human Services | details |
63 | Parenthood | Mothers abuse children roughly 2x more frequently than fathers (40.5% vs. 17.7% as sole perpetrators; 66.2% vs 38% in conjunction with others) |
United States | 2001 | Child Maltreatment 2001 | Dept of Health and Human Services | details |
64 | Parenthood | Boys and girls similar victims of child abuse (47.3% vs. 50.7%) |
United States | 2007 | Child Maltreatment 2007 | Dept of Health and Human Services | details |
65 | Parenthood | Mothers abuse children over 2x more frequently than fathers (40% vs. 18.3% as sole perpetrators) |
United States | 2007 | Child Maltreatment 2007 | Dept of Health and Human Services | details |
66 | Sexuality | Men aren't responsible for repression of female sexuality, women are |
United States | 2002 | Cultural Suppression of Female Sexuality, pp. 166, 188-189, 195-197 | Case Western Reserve University, San Diego State University | details |
67 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Women >= men in domestic violence |
international | 2012 | References examining assaults by women on their spouses or male partners | California State University | details |
68 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Women >= men in domestic violence |
international | 2000 | Sex Differences in Aggression Between Heterosexual Partners: A Meta-Analytic Review | University of Central Lancashire | details |
69 | Violence, Sexual | 95% of sexual coercion among males 16-24 years old done by women |
United States | 2013 | Sexual Coercion Context and Psychosocial Correlates Among Diverse Males, p. 48 | University of Missouri | details |
70 | Workplace | Forced gender quotas on boards lead to poor business outcomes |
Norway | 2011 | The Changing of the Boards: The Impact on Firm Valuation of Mandated Female Board Representation | University of Southern California, University of Michigan | details |
71 | Workplace | Forced gender quotas on boards lead to poor business outcomes |
Norway | 2008 | Women in the Boardroom and Their Impact on Governance and Performance | University of New South Wales, LSA | details |
72 | Violence, Sexual | 40.5% of all rapists are women |
United States | 2010 | National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, 2010 Summary Report | Center for Disease Control | details |
73 | Violence, Sexual | 25-31% of young men had non-consensual sex initiated by a woman |
2003 | Men's Reports of Nonconsensual Sexual Interactions with Women: Prevalence and Impact | University of Potsdam | details | |
74 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Adolescent girls more likely than boys (35% vs. 29%) to be physically violent with dating partners as boys |
United States | 2013 | National Rates of Adolescent Physical, Psychological, and Sexual Teen-Dating Violence | American Psychological Association | details |
75 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Adolescent girls more likely than boys (41% vs. 37%) to be victims of dating violence |
United States | 2013 | National Rates of Adolescent Physical, Psychological, and Sexual Teen-Dating Violence | American Psychological Association | details |
76 | Parenthood | Boys 50% more likely to die of maltreatment than girls (675 vs 454) |
United States | 2006 | Child Maltreatment 2006, p. 71 | Dept of Health and Human Services | details |
77 | Parenthood | When only one parent involved in abuse, women ~70% likely to be abuser/killer |
United States | 2001-2006 | Child Maltreatment reports | Dept of Health and Human Services | details |
78 | Homelessness | Men are 70-80% of all homeless |
Canada | 2009 | Street Needs Assessment Results 2009, p. 24 | Toronto Shelter, Support, and Housing Administration | details |
79 | Health | Of the top 15 leading causes of death, men lead in 12, are tied in 2, & trail in 1 |
United States | 2007 | Deaths: Final Data for 2007, Table B, P. 5 | Dept of Health and Human Services | details |
80 | Income | Men work 2.65x more overtime hours |
United States | 2009 | An analysis of the reasons for the disparity in wages between men and women: final report, p. 18, Table 1 | US Dept of Labor | details |
81 | Mortality | 93% work fatalities are men |
United States | 2013 | Table A-7. Fatal occupational injuries by worker characteristics and event or exposure | Bureau of Labor Statistics | details |
82 | Suicide | 70% of suicides are men (23,055 vs. 9,094) |
United States | 2013 | Fatal Injury Reports | Center for Disease Control | details |
83 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Violence as common in lesbian relationships as in heterosexual relationships |
United States | 1999 | Violence in lesbian and gay relationships: Theory, prevalence, and correlational factors | University of South Carolina | details |
84 | Income | Men work overtime 2.25x more often than women |
United States | 2009 | An analysis of the reasons for the disparity in wages between men and women: final report, p. 18, Table 1 | US Dept of Labor | details |
85 | Mental Health | In 9 of top 10 happiest countries, women are as happy (1) or happier (8) than men |
international | 2013 | Better Life Index | The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development | details |
86 | Mental Health | In 18 of top 20 happiest countries, women are as happy (2) or happier (16) than men |
international | 2013 | Better Life Index | The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development | details |
87 | Mental Health | In 25 of top 30 happiest countries, women are as happy (2) or happier (23) than men |
international | 2013 | Better Life Index | The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development | details |
88 | Mental Health | In 29 of top 36 happiest countries, women are as happy (2) or happier (27) than men |
international | 2013 | Better Life Index | The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development | details |
89 | Suicide | 79% of suicides are men |
United States | 2012 | Suicide: Facts at a Glance | Center for Disease Control | details |
90 | Legal System | Up to 5 years in prison and/or $250,000 fine, cannot vote, no federal scholarships: penalty for men not registering for draft |
United States | 2015 | SSS FAQ | Selective Service System | details |
91 | Rape Culture | 2.8% female rape (completed + attempted) rate on campus in academic year |
United States | 2000 | The Sexual Victimization of College Women, p. 10 | Department of Justice | details |
92 | Rape Culture | Rape is not caused by "rape culture" |
United States | 2014 | Letter to White House Task Force | Rape Abuse and Incest National Network | details |
93 | Income | Women work 96% the hours men work (FTEs) |
United States | 2013 | Graduating to a Pay Gap, p. 2 | AAUW | details |
94 | Health | Men majority of 9 out of 10 deadliest (highest # of deaths) cancers |
United States | 2014 | Cancer Stat Fact Sheets | National Cancer Institute | details |
95 | Health | Men majority of 9 out of 10 deadliest (highest mortality rate) cancers |
United States | 2014 | Cancer Stat Fact Sheets | National Cancer Institute | details |
96 | Health | Men majority of 16 out of 18 non-gender-specific cancers (excludes prostate, breast, ovarian, cervical, testicular, vaginal) |
United States | 2014 | Cancer Stat Fact Sheets | National Cancer Institute | details |
97 | Health | Female-specific cancer funding = $807M, Male-specific cancer funding = $274M (breast+ovarian+cervical+vaginal+uterine vs prostate+testicular+penile) |
United States | 2012 | Research Funding by Cancer Type | National Cancer Institute | details |
98 | Income | Women work 71% the hours men work (all) |
United States | 2012 | Table A-1 2012 | Bureau of Labor Statistics | details |
99 | Income | Women work 88% the hours men work (all employed) |
United States | 2012 | Table A-1 2012 | Bureau of Labor Statistics | details |
100 | Violence, Intimate Partner | 36% of IPV murder ("intimate killing") victims are men |
United States | 2011 | Homicide Trends in the United States, p. 10 | Department of Justice | details |
101 | Patriarchy | Men do not have own-group bias, women do (i.e. - men and women both inherently favor women) |
United States | 2004 | Gender differences in automatic in-group bias: why do women like women more than men like men? | Rutgers University, Purdue University | details |
102 | Suicide | 22 veterans died by suicide each day in 2010 |
United States | 2013 | Suicide Data Report, 2012 | Department of Veteran's Affairs | details |
103 | False Rape | In exonerated sexual assault cases, 76% involved mistaken witness ID |
United States | 2015 | % Exonerations by contributing factor and type of crime | University of Michigan Law School | details |
104 | False Rape | In exonerated sexual assault cases, 33% involved perjury or false accusation |
United States | 2015 | % Exonerations by contributing factor and type of crime | University of Michigan Law School | details |
105 | False Rape | In exonerated sexual assault cases, 32% involved false or misleading genetic evidence |
United States | 2015 | % Exonerations by contributing factor and type of crime | University of Michigan Law School | details |
106 | False Rape | In exonerated sexual assault cases, 23% involved official misconduct |
United States | 2015 | % Exonerations by contributing factor and type of crime | University of Michigan Law School | details |
107 | False Rape | In exonerated sexual assault cases, 8% of the accused confessed |
United States | 2015 | % Exonerations by contributing factor and type of crime | University of Michigan Law School | details |
108 | False Rape | The rate of 'False or Misleading Forensic Evidence' is highest in adult sexual assault cases (32%) |
United States | 2015 | Basic Patterns | University of Michigan Law School | details |
109 | Suicide | Male veterans 3x more likely to commit suicide than female veterans |
United States | 2013 | Suicide Data Report, 2012, p. 9 | Department of Veteran's Affairs | details |
110 | Suicide | Veterans comprised approximately 22.2% of all suicides reported |
United States | 2013 | Suicide Data Report, 2012, p. 15 | Department of Veteran's Affairs | details |
111 | Suicide | Males >97% of all suicides among Veterans |
United States | 2013 | Suicide Data Report, 2012, p. 22 | Department of Veteran's Affairs | details |
112 | Suicide | Males 74% of non-Veteran suicides |
United States | 2013 | Suicide Data Report, 2012, p. 22 | Department of Veteran's Affairs | details |
113 | Suicide | Veterans suicides were more likely to have been married/widowed/divorced, non-Hispanic whites, and higher levels of academic achievement |
United States | 2013 | Suicide Data Report, 2012, p. 23 | Department of Veteran's Affairs | details |
114 | Suicide | Female vetarans have more non-fatal suicide events |
United States | 2013 | Suicide Data Report, 2012, p. 30 | Department of Veteran's Affairs | details |
115 | Suicide | Male veterans 80% of suicide hotline callers |
United States | 2013 | Suicide Data Report, 2012, p. 37 | Department of Veteran's Affairs | details |
116 | Suicide | 27.3% increase in male suicide from 1999-2010 (28.4% in US on average) |
United States | 2014 | Suicide Rates in VHA Patients through 2011 with Comparisons with Other Americans and other Veterans through 2010, p. 16 | Department of Veteran's Affairs | details |
117 | Parenthood | Average false paternity rate is 3.9% |
international | 2006 | How well does paternity confidence match actual paternity? Evidence from worldwide nonpaternity rates | University of Michigan | details |
118 | Parenthood | 1.4% misattributed paternity for caucasians |
United States | 1961 | Proceedings of the Second International Congress on Human Genetics, pp. 894-897 | details | |
119 | Parenthood | 10.1% misattributed paternity for african-americans |
United States | 1961 | Proceedings of the Second International Congress on Human Genetics, pp. 894-897 | details | |
120 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Rates of physical assault victimization: 12% men, 11.6% women |
United States | 2010 | Gender Symmetry in Partner Violence, p. 333 | University of New Hampshire | details |
121 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Rates of severe physical assault victimization: 3.8% men, 4.6% women |
United States | 2010 | Gender Symmetry in Partner Violence, p. 333 | University of New Hampshire | details |
122 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Over 160 studies show gender symmetry in perpetration in IPV |
United States | 2010 | Gender Symmetry in Partner Violence, p. 334 | University of New Hampshire | details |
123 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Among IPV, ~50% of cases are mutually violent couples |
United States | 2010 | Gender Symmetry in Partner Violence, p. 336 | University of New Hampshire | details |
124 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Men sustain 1/3 of IPV injuries |
United States | 2010 | Gender Symmetry in Partner Violence, p. 336 | University of New Hampshire | details |
125 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Men are 1/3 of IPV deaths |
United States | 2010 | Gender Symmetry in Partner Violence, p. 336 | University of New Hampshire | details |
126 | Violence, Intimate Partner | 70% of female-initiated IPV is not in self-defense |
United States | 2010 | Gender Symmetry in Partner Violence, p. 337 | University of New Hampshire | details |
127 | Violence, Intimate Partner | 60% of severe female-initiated IPV is not in self-defense |
United States | 2010 | Gender Symmetry in Partner Violence, p. 337 | University of New Hampshire | details |
128 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Self-defense-related IPV is higher for men (56%) than women (42%) |
United States | 2010 | Gender Symmetry in Partner Violence, p. 337 | University of New Hampshire | details |
129 | Violence, Intimate Partner | National Institute of Justice stated that grant proposals involving male victims of IPV are not eligible for funding |
United States | 2005 | Justice Responses to Intimate Partner Violence and Stalking | Department of Justice | details |
130 | Education | Despite higher test scores in math and science, teachers give boys lower grades than girls in those subjects |
United States | 2011 | Non-cognitive Skills and the Gender Disparities in Test Scores and Teacher Assessments: Evidence from Primary School, p. 3 | University of Georgia, Columbia University | details |
131 | Education | Boys who exhibit the same "approaches to learning" as girls have no gender grade gap |
United States | 2011 | Non-cognitive Skills and the Gender Disparities in Test Scores and Teacher Assessments: Evidence from Primary School, pp. 16-20 | University of Georgia, Columbia University | details |
132 | Incarceration | Males receive 63% longer sentence lengths (same crimes, same criminal history) |
United States | 2012 | Estimating Gender Disparities in Federal Criminal Cases, p. 2, 8 | University of Michigan Law School | details |
133 | Incarceration | Males more likely to be charged in the first place (92.2% vs. 90.7%) |
United States | 2012 | Estimating Gender Disparities in Federal Criminal Cases, p. 4 | University of Michigan Law School | details |
134 | Incarceration | Female cases resolved 10% sooner than males |
United States | 2012 | Estimating Gender Disparities in Federal Criminal Cases, p. 15 | University of Michigan Law School | details |
135 | Incarceration | Women 2x more likely to avoid incarceration if convicted |
United States | 2012 | Estimating Gender Disparities in Federal Criminal Cases, p. 17 | University of Michigan Law School | details |
136 | Violence, Sexual | Among abuse allegations for minors (8-11), 42-44% of alleged victims are boys |
Canada | 1996 | The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p. 15 | details | |
137 | Violence, Sexual | 1/3 of males and 1/2 of females reported being victims of unwanted sexual touching in their lifetime |
Canada | 1996 | The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p. 15 | details | |
138 | Violence, Sexual | 90% of males and 75% of females do not report their abuse experience |
Canada | 1996 | The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p. 15 | details | |
139 | Violence, Sexual | 1/4 of perpetrators of unwanted sexual exposure (e.g. - "flashing") are women |
Canada | 1996 | The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p. 16 | details | |
140 | Violence, Sexual | 50% of the 229 juveniles involved in prostitution reported being approached for sexual services by an adult female (62% of the males and 43.4% of the females) |
Canada | 1996 | The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p. 16 | details | |
141 | Violence, Sexual | Child victims of violent sex crimes are more likely to be male |
United States | 1996 | The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p. 16 | details | |
142 | Violence, Sexual | 19% of males reported suffering unsolicited sexual advances (i.e. - sexual harassment) |
Germany | 1996 | The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p. 19 | details | |
143 | Violence, Sexual | 21% of males reported suffering unsolicited sexual advances (i.e. - sexual harassment) |
France | 1996 | The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p. 19 | details | |
144 | Parenthood | Boys (0-12) are majority of investigated cases for both physical and emotional maltreatment |
Canada | 1996 | The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p.21 | details | |
145 | Violence | 10% of boys (vs. 2% of girls) suffered non-sexual genital assault; 40% of perpetrators were girls |
United States | 1996 | The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p.23 | details | |
146 | Violence | Middle school boys 50% more likely to be beaten up while at school |
Canada | 1996 | The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p.23 | details | |
147 | Violence | Middle school boys 120% more likely to be robbed while at school |
Canada | 1996 | The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p.23 | details | |
148 | Violence | Middle school boys and girls were equally likely to be victims OR perpetrators of violent acts |
Canada | 1996 | The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p.23 | details | |
149 | Violence | Middle school boys 1.79x more likely to have been slapped, punched, or kicked while in school |
Canada | 1996 | The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p.23 | details | |
150 | Suicide | 83% of suicides of persons under age of 20 are caucasian males |
United States | 1996 | The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p. 24 | details | |
151 | Suicide | Males 4x suicide rate of females |
Canada | 1996 | The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p. 24 | details | |
152 | Violence, Sexual | Boys sexually abused by males 45% of the time, by females 55% of the time |
1996 | The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p. 27 | details | ||
153 | Violence, Sexual | Boys more likely to be sexually abused by multiple perpetrators |
1996 | The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p.28 | details | ||
154 | Violence, Sexual | Boys more likely to be sexually abused by strangers |
1996 | The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p.28 | details | ||
155 | Violence, Sexual | Female perpetrators 25%+ of the time |
1996 | The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p.28 | details | ||
156 | Violence, Sexual | In 60% of male victims, abusers were female (self-reported) |
1996 | The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p.30 | details | ||
157 | Violence, Sexual | Among male college students, female perpetration rates as high as 72% to 82% |
1996 | The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p.30 | details | ||
158 | Violence, Sexual | 80% of sexually aggressive men were sexually abused by a female in the past |
1996 | The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p.30 | details | ||
159 | Violence, Sexual | 59% of sexually aggressive men were sexually abused by a female in the past |
1996 | The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, p.30 | details | ||
160 | Suicide | Females not more likely to have made suicide plans (1.0% vs. 1.0%) |
United States | 2011 | Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among Adults Aged 18 Years --- United States, 2008-2011 | Center for Disease Control | details |
161 | Suicide | Females not much more likely to have suicidal thoughts than males (3.9% vs. 3.5%) |
United States | 2011 | Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among Adults Aged 18 Years --- United States, 2008-2011 | Center for Disease Control | details |
162 | Suicide | Females not much more likely to have attempted suicide (0.5% vs. 0.4%) |
United States | 2011 | Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among Adults Aged ò18 Years --- United States, 2008-2011 | Center for Disease Control | details |
163 | Suicide | Men 4x more likely to commit suicide (79% of all Suicides) |
United States | 2012 | Suicide: Facts at a Glance | Center for Disease Control | details |
164 | Violence, Intimate Partner | 38% of IPV victims are men |
United States | 2001 | More Men than Women Victims of Intimate Partner Physical Violence, Psychological Aggression | Univeristy of Phoenix | details |
165 | Violence, Intimate Partner | 53% of IPV victims are men |
United States | 2011 | More Men than Women Victims of Intimate Partner Physical Violence, Psychological Aggression | Univeristy of Phoenix | details |
166 | Violence, Intimate Partner | 45.5% of IPV victims are men |
Canada | 2011 | More Men than Women Victims of Intimate Partner Physical Violence, Psychological Aggression | Univeristy of Phoenix | details |
167 | Violence, Intimate Partner | 21.6% of male vs. 12.7% of female IPV victims threatened with knives |
United States | 2001 | The Risk of Serious Physical Injury from Assault by a Woman Intimate: A Re-Examination of National Violence Against Women Survey Data on Type of Assault by an Intimate | Univeristy of Phoenix | details |
170 | Parenthood | 10.4% of men vs 8.6% of women had partner try to initiate pregnancy/stop birth control against the other's wishes |
United States | 2011 | More Men than Women Victims of Intimate Partner Physical Violence, Psychological Aggression | Univeristy of Phoenix | details |
182 | Health | Of gendered cancers (male-specific vs. female-specific): funding ($271M vs. $788M), new cases (242k vs. 272k), deaths (30k vs. 59k) |
United States | 2012, 2014 | Cancer Stat Fact Sheets + Research Funding by Cancer Type | National Cancer Institute | details |
183 | Genital Mutilation | Strong correlation between country-level autism/ASD prevalence in males and a country's circumcision rate |
international | 2013 | Prenatal and perinatal analgesic exposure and autism: an ecological link | University of Massachusetts | details |
184 | Genital Mutilation | Neonatal injury or trauma is a factor associated with autism risk |
international | 2011 | Perinatal and Neonatal Risk Factors for Autism: A Comprehensive Meta-analysis | Harvard School of Public Health, Brown University | details |
187 | Rape Culture | Students less likely than nonstudents to report to the police or consider important enough to report |
United States | 2014 | Rape and Sexual Assault Among College-age Females, p. 1 | Bureau of Justice Statistics | details |
190 | Divorce | 1/4 of divorce cases involve allegations of IPV |
United States | 2007 | What is the Cost of False Allegations of Domestic Violence? | Stop Abusive and Violent Environments | details |
191 | Divorce | In 70% of divorce cases involving allegations of IPV, the allegation is deemed to be unnecessary or false |
United States | 2005 | What is the Cost of False Allegations of Domestic Violence? | Stop Abusive and Violent Environments | details |
193 | Violence, Sexual | Males 2.9x more likely than females (8.2% vs. 2.8%) in juvenile facilities to be sexually assaulted by staff |
United States | 2013 | Sexual Victimization in Juvenile Facilities Reported by Youth, p. 4 | Bureau of Justice Statistics | details |
194 | Education | Male students expect lower grades from female teachers (and are right); female students expect higher grades from male teachers (and are wrong) |
United Kingdom | 2012 | Students' Perceptions of Teacher Biases: Experimental Economics in Schools, p. 3 | London School of Economics | details |
195 | Violence, Sexual | 92.1% of all rapes at Juvenile centers are comitted by female guardians raping teen boys (89.1% solely female, 3% both); females represented only 44% of facility staff |
United States | 2013 | Sexual Victimization in Juvenile Facilities Reported by Youth, p. 5 | Bureau of Justice Statistics | details |
196 | Rape Culture | Rate of rape and sexual assault was 20% times higher for nonstudents (7.6 per 1,000) than for students (6.1 per 1,000) |
United States | 2014 | Rape and Sexual Assault Among College-age Females, p. 1 | Bureau of Justice Statistics | details |
197 | Violence, Sexual | Half of commercially sexually exploited children were boys; 40% had female clients (13% exclusively so) |
United States | 2008 | The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in New York City, p. 3 | John Jay College of Criminal Justice | details |
198 | Divorce | The higher the wife's % of household income, the higher likelihood of divorce |
Sweden | 1998 | Does divorce risk depend on spouses' relative income? | Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research | details |
199 | Divorce | Income ratios that conform to egalitarian power relations do not have a stabilizing effect on marriage |
Sweden | 1998 | Does divorce risk depend on spouses' relative income? | Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research | details |
200 | Violence, Sexual | Female commercially sexually exploited children more likely to be housed than males (NYC) |
United States | 2008 | The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in New York City, p. 4 | John Jay College of Criminal Justice | details |
201 | Violence, Sexual | Male defendants in sexual exploitation cases received more severe outcomes than female defendents |
United States | 2000 | The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in New York City, p. 4 | John Jay College of Criminal Justice | details |
202 | Violence, Sexual | Several CASEC initiatives targeted girls exclusively (and none targeted boys exclusively) |
United States | 2008 | The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in New York City, p. 9 | John Jay College of Criminal Justice | details |
203 | Violence, Sexual | Females 2.4x more likely than males (5.4% vs. 2.2%) in juvenile facilities to be sexually assaulted by other youth |
United States | 2013 | Sexual Victimization in Juvenile Facilities Reported by Youth, p. 4 | Bureau of Justice Statistics | details |
204 | Education | Male students expect lower grades from female teachers (and are right); female students expect higher grades from male teachers (and are wrong) |
United States | 2005 | Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement, Abstract | National Bureau of Economic Research | details |
205 | Education | The size of the male:female gender gap in reading is ~half the size of the corresponding black-white gap (17 year-olds) |
United States | 2005 | Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement, p. 4 | National Bureau of Economic Research | details |
206 | Divorce | >2/3 of divorce cases are filed by wives |
United States | 2000 | "These Boots Are Made For Walking": Why Most Divorce Filers Are Women, p. 127 | University of Iowa, Simon Fraser University | details |
207 | Incarceration | Wives convicted of killing spouses receive prison sentences 10 years shorter than husbands convicted of killing spouses (6 years vs. 16.5 years; excludes life or death sentences) |
United States | 1995 | Spouse Murder Defendants in Large Urban Communities | Department of Justice | details |
208 | Incarceration | Wives charged with killing spouses convicted 20% less frequently than husbands charged with killing spouses (70% vs. 87% conviction rates) |
United States | 1995 | Spouse Murder Defendants in Large Urban Communities | Department of Justice | details |
209 | Incarceration | Wives charged with killing spouses 5.1x more likely to be acquitted than husbands charged with killing spouses (31% vs. 6% acquittal rate; both judge and jury trials) |
United States | 1995 | Spouse Murder Defendants in Large Urban Communities | Department of Justice | details |
210 | Incarceration | Wives charged with killing spouses infinitely more likely to be acquitted than husbands charged with killing spouses (27% vs. 0% acquittal rate; jury trials only) |
United States | 1995 | Spouse Murder Defendants in Large Urban Communities | Department of Justice | details |
211 | Incarceration | Wives convicted of killing spouses 14% less likely to receive a prison sentence than husbands convicted of killing spouses (81% vs. 94% sentencing rate) |
United States | 1995 | Spouse Murder Defendants in Large Urban Communities | Department of Justice | details |
212 | Incarceration | Wives convicted of killing spouses 65% less likely to receive a prison sentence of 20+ years than husbands convicted of killing spouses (15% vs. 43%; includes life imprisonment and death penalty) |
United States | 1995 | Spouse Murder Defendants in Large Urban Communities | Department of Justice | details |
213 | Incarceration | Wives convicted of unprovoked killing of spouses receive prison sentences 10 years shorter than husbands convicted of unprovoked killing of spouses (7 years vs. 17 years) |
United States | 1995 | Spouse Murder Defendants in Large Urban Communities | Department of Justice | details |
214 | Education | Boys are substantially more likely than girls to repeat a grade |
United States | 2005 | Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement, p. 5 | National Bureau of Economic Research | details |
215 | Education | Variance in male test scores is consistently larger than that of females; boys overrepresented among both high and low performers |
United States | 2005 | Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement, p. 5 | National Bureau of Economic Research | details |
216 | Education | Biological factors (such as differences in brain structure and exposure to sex hormones) do contribute to gender-specific skill advantages |
United States | 2005 | Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement, pp. 5-6 | National Bureau of Economic Research | details |
217 | Education | The teacher's gender is "the most obvious factor that seems to shape sex equity in the classroom" |
United States | 2005 | Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement, p. 7 | National Bureau of Economic Research | details |
218 | Education | White female students are more favorably evaluated by white female teachers in math and science |
United States | 2005 | Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement, p. 8 | National Bureau of Economic Research | details |
219 | Education | Male students face discrimination in every subject (except foreign language) by public high school teachers |
Israel | 2008 | Do gender stereotypes reduce girls' or boys' human capital outcomes? Evidence from a natural experiment, p. 2083 | Hebrew University | details |
220 | Education | Assignment to a female teacher reduces the test scores of boys by a statistically signifant amount; raises test scores of girls by a similar amount |
United States | 2005 | Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement, pp. 15, 21 | National Bureau of Economic Research | details |
221 | Education | Boys with a propensity for low achievement are more likely to be assigned to male teachers |
United States | 2005 | Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement, p. 16 | National Bureau of Economic Research | details |
222 | Education | Female history teachers increase girls' achievement by a statistically significant amount (without raising boys' achievement) |
United States | 2005 | Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement, pp. 17, 19-20 | National Bureau of Economic Research | details |
223 | Education | Female science teachers lower the achievement of boys, but not girls |
United States | 2005 | Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement, pp. 17-18 | National Bureau of Economic Research | details |
224 | Education | Boys are significantly more likely to be seen as disruptive when assigned to a female teacher |
United States | 2005 | Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement, p. 25-26, 27 | National Bureau of Economic Research | details |
225 | Education | For boys, achievement consequences of assignment to a female teacher are uniform across subjects. |
United States | 2005 | Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement, p. 21 | National Bureau of Economic Research | details |
226 | Education | Percentage of female 6th grade teachers: 68-91% |
United States | 2005 | Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement, p. 26 | National Bureau of Economic Research | details |
227 | Education | Percentage of female 8th grade reading teachers: 83% |
United States | 2005 | Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement, p. 26 | National Bureau of Economic Research | details |
228 | Education | Over 50% of 8th grade math and science teachers are female |
United States | 2005 | Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement, p. 26 | National Bureau of Economic Research | details |
229 | Education | A large fraction of boys' dramatic underperformance in reading is associated with the fact that their reading teachers are overwhelmingly female |
United States | 2005 | Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement, p. 26 | National Bureau of Economic Research | details |
230 | Education | Across all subjects, boys are substantially more likely to be viewed pejoratively by their teacher |
United States | 2005 | Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement, p. 12 | National Bureau of Economic Research | details |
231 | Workplace | Over the last 3 decades, market trajectory of males has turned downward along four dimensions: skills acquisition, employment rates, occupational stature, and real wage levels. |
United States | 2013 | Wayward Sons: the Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education, p. 7 | MIT | details |
232 | Workplace | The nature of the widening male gender gap is that it will probably grow differentially with each generation |
United States | 2013 | Wayward Sons: the Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education, p. 8 | MIT | details |
233 | Education | Female gap in college attendance is ~10 percentage points; females 17% more likely to attend college |
United States | 2013 | Wayward Sons: the Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education, p. 11 | MIT | details |
234 | Education | Female gap in 4-year college graduation is 7 percentage points; females 23% more likely to complete a 4-year degree |
United States | 2013 | Wayward Sons: the Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education, p. 11 | MIT | details |
235 | Education | Women born in the early 1950s and later (i.e. - women about 60 years old and younger) have outpaced men in college attendance |
United States | 2013 | Wayward Sons: the Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education, pp. 10-11 | MIT | details |
236 | Education | Women born in the late 1950s and later (i.e. - women about 55 years old and younger) have outpaced men in college graduation |
United States | 2013 | Wayward Sons: the Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education, pp. 10-11 | MIT | details |
237 | Workplace | Women and men equal representation in low-skilled service industries (55% vs 45%) |
United States | 2009 | Wayward Sons: the Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education, p. 13 | MIT | details |
238 | Workplace | Women and men equal representation in high-skilled, managerial/professional/technical occupations (52% vs 48%) |
United States | 2009 | Wayward Sons: the Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education, p. 13 | MIT | details |
239 | Workplace | Shrinking gender gap is not purely due to womens' advances; also reflects males' decline |
United States | 2013 | Wayward Sons: the Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education, p. 21 | MIT | details |
240 | Income | Earnings gap b/w non-educated and highly-educated males and females is roughly equal |
United States | 2010 | Wayward Sons: the Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education, p. 25 | MIT | details |
241 | Parenthood | Declines in male earning power + gains in female economic self-sufficiency -> reduced economic value of marriage to women (especially less-educated women) -> single-headed female households -> disproportionately negatively affects male children |
United States | 2013 | Wayward Sons: the Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education, pp. 27, 29 | MIT | details |
242 | Income | High degree of correlation between female marriage rates and male earnings levels (controlled for race) |
United States | 2013 | Wayward Sons: the Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education, p. 30 | MIT | details |
243 | Parenthood | Males with increased career-orientation, income, and employment are ~30% more likely to be living with IP and/or children |
United States | 2008 | Wayward Sons: the Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education, p. 31 | MIT | details |
244 | Incarceration | 26% of black men ages 25-39 have no HS degree. This has quintupled from 1970 to 2010 (<5% vs 26%). |
United States | 2013 | Wayward Sons: the Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education, p. 31 | MIT | details |
245 | Incarceration | 1 percentage point increase in male incarceration rate reduces probablity for female marriage by 1 percentage point |
United States | 2010 | Wayward Sons: the Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education, p. 31 | MIT | details |
246 | Parenthood | 40% of all births are to unmarried women (growth trend consistent across all demographic groups); half of which women ages 20-29 |
United States | 2010 | Wayward Sons: the Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education, p. 33 | MIT | details |
247 | Education | Female child's educational advantage is substantially more pronounced in female-headed households (father less-educated or not present) |
United States | 2010 | Wayward Sons: the Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education, p. 44 | MIT | details |
248 | Education | Growing up in single-parent home significantly decreases probability of college attendance for boys, no similar effect for girls |
United States | 2010 | Wayward Sons: the Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education, p. 44 | MIT | details |
249 | Parenthood | Absence of father-figure in a household affects boys dramatically more negatively than girls |
United States | 2010 | Wayward Sons: the Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education, p. 49 | MIT | details |
250 | Education | Starting in 1980s, growing gap between male and female HS seniors for BA degree attainment (in all but highest socioeconomic quintile) |
United States | 2010 | Wayward Sons: the Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education, pp. 45, 47 | MIT | details |
251 | Parenthood | Gap b/w boys and girls in misbehavior (self-control, acting out, disciplinary measures) is substantially greater for children reared in single-mother households |
United States | 2010 | Wayward Sons: the Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education, p. 46 | MIT | details |
252 | Parenthood | Boys more likely to engage in delinquent behavior during adolescence and early adulthood if raised in household with no father-figure |
United States | 2010 | Wayward Sons: the Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education, pp. 46-47 | MIT | details |
253 | Parenthood | Single mothers spend 1 hr/week less with sons than with daughters (a disparity largely absent from dual-parent homes) |
United States | 2010 | Wayward Sons: the Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education, p. 47 | MIT | details |
254 | Parenthood | Single mothers report feeling more emotionally distant from their sons (a disparity largely absent from dual-parent homes) |
United States | 2010 | Wayward Sons: the Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education, p. 47 | MIT | details |
255 | Parenthood | Single mothers engage in disciplinary action (e.g. - spanking) more frequently with their sons (a disparity largely absent from dual-parent homes) |
United States | 2010 | Wayward Sons: the Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education, p. 47 | MIT | details |
258 | Violence | Number of cross-sex homicides is nearly identical across genders |
United States | 1974 | The Battered Husband Syndrome, p. 504 | University of Delaware | details |
261 | Health | >90% of all clinical drug trials included women as early as 1979 |
United States | 2002 | Lying in a Room of One's Own, p. 11 | Independent Women's Forum | details |
262 | Health | Women represent >60% of all subjects in NIH-funded clinical trials |
United States | 2002 | Lying in a Room of One's Own, p. 11 | Independent Women's Forum | details |
263 | Health | Men are less likely to have medical insurance than women |
United States | 2002 | Lying in a Room of One's Own, p. 11 | Independent Women's Forum | details |
267 | Dimorphism | Childrens' toy selections (wheeled toys vs. plush toys) reflect hormonally influenced behavioral and cognitive biases without explicit gendered socialization |
international | 2008 | Sex differences in rhesus monkey toy preferences parallel those of children | Emory University, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience | details |
268 | Dimorphism | Children explain personal toy preferences in terms of what can be done with it (55%) rather than gender-appropriateness of the toy (<1%) |
United States | 1982 | Children's reasoning regarding sex-typed toy choices | Arizona State University | details |
269 | Dimorphism | Juvenile male rhesus monkeys engage in more rough-and-tumble play, juvenile female monkeys show a greater interest in young infants |
international | 2008 | Sex differences in rhesus monkey toy preferences parallel those of children | Emory University, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience | details |
270 | Dimorphism | Male vervet monkeys play longer with "male" toys (car and ball) than "female" toys (doll and pot); vice versa with female monkeys; no gender differences in preference for "neutral" toys (picture book and stuffed dog) |
international | 2002 | Sex differences in response to children's toys in nonhuman primates (Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus) | University of California, Los Angeles | details |
271 | Education | In 1980s, HS women and men had same expectations of attaining graduate school (10% vs. 10%); significant gap by 2000s (21% vs. 15%) |
Canada | 2011 | Leaving Boys Behind: Gender Disparities in High Academic Achievement, p. 7 | University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, Dalhousie University | details |
272 | Dimorphism | Infant boys show a looking preference for mechanical motion over biological motion, while infant girls show the opposite pattern |
United Kingdom | 2002 | Human sex differences in social and non-social looking preferences at 12 months of age | University of Cambridge | details |
273 | Dimorphism | Girls with CAH (a prenatal hormonal anomaly) strongly prefer male-typical toy play despite parental encouragement of female-typical toy play (i.e. - nature > nurture) |
United Kingdom | 2005 | Prenatal Hormones and Postnatal Socialization by Parents as Determinants of Male-Typical Toy Play in Girls With Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia | University College, London | details |
274 | Divorce | 2/3 of divorce cases are filed by wives |
United States | 1994 | Who Divorced Whom? Methodological and Theoretical Issues | Arizona State University | details |
275 | Divorce | Wives are more likely to instigate separation than husbands |
United States | 1994 | Who Divorced Whom? Methodological and Theoretical Issues | Arizona State University | details |
276 | Divorce | Women are significantly more likely to file for divorce when they're confident of winning custody |
United States | 2000 | "These Boots Are Made For Walking": Why Most Divorce Filers Are Women, p. 155 | University of Iowa, Simon Fraser University | details |
277 | Income | Preference, rather than discrimination, is the primary source of sex differentials in labour market outcomes |
United Kingdom | 2006 | Women, careers, and work-life preferences, p. 279, 285 | London School of Economics | details |
278 | Income | No direct link between occupational segregation and the pay gap; association is coincidental rather than causal; independent social developments |
international | 2006 | Women, careers, and work-life preferences, p. 284 | London School of Economics | details |
279 | Income | Lowest gender pay gaps are in 3rd- (not 1st-)world countries |
international | 2006 | Women, careers, and work-life preferences, p. 284 | London School of Economics | details |
280 | Workplace | There are no visible gender differences in styles of management |
international | 2006 | Women, careers, and work-life preferences, p. 285 | London School of Economics | details |
281 | Income | Within a profession accepted to be discrimination-free (e.g. - pharmacy), women gravitate toward local, part-time, or fixed-hour jobs |
international | 2006 | Women, careers, and work-life preferences, p. 285 | London School of Economics | details |
282 | Suicide | Young men (ages 10-24) are 3.7x more likely to commit suicide than young women (11.9 vs. 3.2 per 100k) |
United States | 2012 | Suicide Trends Among Persons Aged 10-24 Years | Center for Disease Control | details |
283 | Incarceration | For all offense categories, women receive shorter sentences than men (range 18-42 mo) |
United States | 1991 | Women in Prison, p. 4 | Department of Justice | details |
284 | Media | Video game exposure, regardless of genre or female representation, has no relation to sexist attitudes |
Germany | 2015 | Sexist Games=Sexist Gamers? A Longitudinal Study on the Relationship Between Video Game Use and Sexist Attitudes | University of Cologne, University of Munster, University of Hohenheim | details |
285 | Legal System | In cases of IPV, when the women called the police the man arrested in 15.2% of cases; when the man called the police, the woman was never arrested |
United States | 1988 | Disabusing the Definition of Domestic Abuse: How Women Batter Men and the Role of the Feminist State, p. 831 | Indiana University | details |
286 | Legal System | If male calls IPV in, he is 3x more likely to be arrested than a woman is if she calls in IPV |
United States | 2003 | Disabusing the Definition of Domestic Abuse: How Women Batter Men and the Role of the Feminist State, p. 831 | Indiana University | details |
288 | Suicide | Male suicide rate >3x higher than female |
United Kingdom | 2013 | Suicides in the United Kingdom, 2013 Registrations | the Office for National Statistics | details |
289 | Suicide | Male suicide rate in 2013 the highest since 2001 |
United Kingdom | 2013 | Suicides in the United Kingdom, 2013 Registrations | the Office for National Statistics | details |
290 | Suicide | Group with highest suicide rate is men aged 45-59 (not teenagers and young adults, as is often portrayed) |
United Kingdom | 2013 | Suicides in the United Kingdom, 2013 Registrations | the Office for National Statistics | details |
291 | Income | 42% of males vs 28% females initiated negotiation (males 50% more likely to negotiate) |
Sweden | 2012 | Gender Differences in Initiation of Negotiation: Does The Gender of the Negotiation Counterpart Matter?, p. 1 | Stockholm School of Economics | details |
292 | Income | Women care more about 5 of 7 job values more than men; items that men care about as much or more are "Opportunities for promotion/advancement" (as much) and "A high-paying job" (more) |
United States | 2013 | Chapter 3: What Men, Women Value in a Job | Pew Research Center | details |
293 | Workplace | 14 percentage-point gap in which genders want to be boss/top manager; 15 percentage-point gap in which genders ARE the boss/top manager |
United States | 2013 | Chapter 3: What Men, Women Value in a Job | Pew Research Center | details |
294 | Income | Most men (73%) and women (75%) say that where they work, men and women are paid about the same amount for doing the same job |
United States | 2013 | On Pay Gap, Millennial Women Near Parity - For Now | Pew Research Center | details |
295 | Feminism | As many people say society treats men and women equally (40%) as say society favors men over women (45%); 10% disagree with both |
United States | 2013 | On Pay Gap, Millennial Women Near Parity - For Now | Pew Research Center | details |
296 | Income | Most men (73%) and women (72%) say that at their workplace, women have about the same opportunities as men to advance to top executive and professional positions; 14% disagree |
United States | 2013 | On Pay Gap, Millennial Women Near Parity - For Now | Pew Research Center | details |
297 | Workplace | Women and men roughly equal (15% vs. 17%) in managerial and administrative occupations |
United States | 2013 | On Pay Gap, Millennial Women Near Parity - For Now | Pew Research Center | details |
298 | Income | In spite of the general perception, especially among women, that men have an advantage in terms of earning power and access to top jobs, relatively few employed adults report these types of inequities at their own workplace. |
United States | 2013 | Chapter 2: Equal Treatment for Men and Women | Pew Research Center | details |
299 | Workplace | 79% of Millennial women say that where they work, women have about the same chance as men do for advancement |
United States | 2013 | Chapter 2: Equal Treatment for Men and Women | Pew Research Center | details |
300 | Workplace | 40% of female respondents think that men prefer working with other men; only 32% of male respondents say the same |
United States | 2013 | Chapter 2: Equal Treatment for Men and Women | Pew Research Center | details |
301 | Workplace | 25% of male respondents think that women prefer working with other women; only 10% of female respondents say the same |
United States | 2013 | Chapter 2: Equal Treatment for Men and Women | Pew Research Center | details |
302 | Workplace | 78% of men and 76% of women say it doesn't matter to them if their co-workers are men or women |
United States | 2013 | Chapter 2: Equal Treatment for Men and Women | Pew Research Center | details |
303 | Income | 57% of men and 53% of women say they are adequately paid for the type of work they do and the hours they put in |
United States | 2013 | Chapter 4: Men and Women at Work | Pew Research Center | details |
304 | Divorce | Men are 28% more likely to not receive any child support owed to them (32%) than women are (25.1%) |
United States | 2011 | Custodial Mothers and Fathers and Their Child Support: 2011, p. 7 | Department of Commerce | details |
305 | Divorce | Women are 5% more likely to have received all child support owed to them (43.6%) than men are (41.4%) |
United States | 2011 | Custodial Mothers and Fathers and Their Child Support: 2011, p. 7 | Department of Commerce | details |
306 | Marriage | When all types of labor (inside & outside home) considered, fathers labor slightly than mothers (54.2 hours vs 52.7 hours) |
United States | 2013 | Chapter 4: How Mothers and Fathers Spend Their Time | Pew Research Center | details |
307 | Rape Culture | The author of the "1-in-5 women will be raped in college" study said that it should not be used in a broader context |
United States | 2014 | Setting the Record Straight on "1 in 5" | Time Magazine | details |
308 | Feminism | 18% feminists, 85% equal rights believers |
United States | 2015 | Topline Results from a Survey Of n = 1,067 adults nationwide | Vox.com | details |
309 | Divorce | 66% of divorces initiated by women |
United Kingdom | 2011 | Number of divorces, age at divorce and marital status before marriage, Table 1 | UK Statistics Authority | details |
310 | Patriarchy | Both sexes assume that low BS (i.e. - low chivalry) in a man is indicative of higher HS (i.e. - misogeny), despite the opposite being statistically true (e.g. - the man believes that men and women should be treated equally) |
Canada | 2012 | Lay misperceptions of the relationship between men's benevolent and hostile sexism, p. 30 | University of Waterloo | details |
311 | Patriarchy | Even if men explicitly state that a rejection of BS (i.e. - chivalry) stems from egalitarian values, they still suffer a reputational cost in how they are evaluated by observers |
Canada | 2012 | Lay misperceptions of the relationship between men's benevolent and hostile sexism, p. 31 | University of Waterloo | details |
315 | Income | Women 2x more likely to work part-time (26% vs. 13%; <35 hours per week) |
United States | 2009 | Highlights of Women's Earnings in 2009, p. 2 | Department of Labor | details |
322 | Parenthood | 37% of Child Abuse and Neglect deaths caused by mothers (vs. 19% caused by fathers) |
New Zealand | 2013 | Fourth Annual Report: January 2013 to December 2013, p. 53 | Health Quality & Safety Commission | details |
323 | Violence, Sexual | When same definition applied to both genders, women only slightly more likely than men to be forced into sex (22% vs. 16%) |
United States | 1988 | Cultural Suppression of Female Sexuality, p. 192 | Case Western Reserve University, San Diego State University | details |
324 | Education | Grading bias against male students is the result of teachers', and not students', behavior |
Israel | 2008 | Do gender stereotypes reduce girls' or boys' human capital outcomes? Evidence from a natural experiment, p. 2083 | Hebrew University | details |
325 | Violence, Sexual | By ages 18-19, adolescent perpetrators of sexual violence are equally male (52%) and female (48%) |
United States | 2013 | Prevalence Rates of Male and Female Sexual Violence Perpetrators in a National Sample of Adolescents | Center for Innovative Public Health Research, University of New Hampshire | details |
329 | Parenthood | Of cases of abuse perpetrated by parents, mothers more likely than fathers to be abusors (73% vs. 23%) |
Australia | 2009 | Mum, not dad, more likely to neglect kids | Department for Child Protection and Family Support | details |
330 | Parenthood | Mothers >17x more likely than fathers to neglect their children (>94% of parental neglect cases) |
Australia | 2009 | Mum, not dad, more likely to neglect kids | Department for Child Protection and Family Support | details |
331 | Parenthood | Of cases of emotional/psychological abuse perpetrated by parents, mothers we perpetrators 68% of the time |
Australia | 2009 | Mum, not dad, more likely to neglect kids | Department for Child Protection and Family Support | details |
332 | Parenthood | Of cases of physical abuse perpetrated by parents, mothers we perpetrators 53% of the time |
Australia | 2009 | Mum, not dad, more likely to neglect kids | Department for Child Protection and Family Support | details |
333 | Parenthood | Of cases of abuse perpetrated by parents, mothers more likely than fathers to be abusors (73% vs. 23%) |
Australia | 2009 | Mum, not dad, more likely to neglect kids | Department for Child Protection and Family Support | details |
334 | Violence, Sexual | >1/3 of students who reported attempted/completed rape were men (8% vs. 15%) |
United States | 2010 | College Students' Sexual Assault Experiences at SUNY Geneseo: Results from an Anonymous, Campus-Wide Survey and Implications for Change, p. 4 | SUNY Genesco | details |
335 | Workplace | Male and female faculty members from all four fields studied preferred female applicants 2:1 on STEM tenure track over identically qualified males with matching lifestyle |
United States | 2015 | National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track | Cornell University | details |
399 | Legal System | IPV legislation is structured using gendered language so that only male-female IPV is recognized, studied, and therefore ideologically reinforced |
United States | 1994 | Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, sec. 40291, p. 144 | United States of America | details |
337 | Income | 38.3% of wives earn more than their husbands |
United States | 2010 | Women in the Labor Force: A Databook | Department of Labor | details |
349 | Marriage | Fewer than 5% of domestic violence incidents involve couples in an intact married relationship - marriage is the safest partner relationship |
United States | 1993-1999 | Intimate Partner Violence and Age of Victim, 1993-99, Fig. 4 | Department of Justice | details |
358 | Divorce | Rate of intentionally false child abuse/neglect allegations is 3x higher during custody/access disputes than otherwise (12% vs. 4% of all cases) |
Canada | 2004 | False allegations of abuse and neglect when parents separate, p. 1333 | University of Toronto | details |
359 | Divorce | Mothers' requests for sole legal custody granted at rate 65% higher than fathers' requests granted |
United States | 2014 | Impact of Divorce, Single Parenting and Stepparenting on Children: A Case Study of Visual Agnosia, ch. 4 | Middlesex Divorce Research Group | details |
360 | Divorce | Mothers' who sought sole custody were also granted primary physical custody in 73.8% and 95% of cases |
United States | 2014 | Impact of Divorce, Single Parenting and Stepparenting on Children: A Case Study of Visual Agnosia, ch. 4 | Middlesex Divorce Research Group | details |
361 | Suicide | Ages 15-24: Males 5.8x rate of suicide than females; consistent across all racial demographics |
United States | 2000 | Suicide Among 15 to 24 Year Olds by Gender, Race/Ethnicity and State: 1900 to 2000 | Center for Disease Control | details |
362 | Suicide | Ages 15-24: until ~1930, male:female suicide held around 1.5:1 (i.e. - men committing suicide several multiples more frequently is not genetically intrinsic) |
United States | 1900-2000 | Suicide Among 15 to 24 Year Olds by Gender, Race/Ethnicity and State: 1900 to 2000, pp. 3, 5, 11 | Center for Disease Control | details |
368 | Incarceration | Males were consistently treated more severely at every stage of IPV prosecution process, particularly regarding the decision to prosecute, even when controlling for other variables (e.g., the presence of physical injuries) and when examined under different conditions. |
international | 2012 | The Partner Abuse State of Knowledge Project Manuscripts and Online Data Base: Overview of Findings, p. 32 | The Partner Abuse State of Knowledge Project | details |
370 | Incarceration | Judges are overwhelmingly more likely to issue protective orders to women than to men seeking them (particularly in cases of less severe violence histories), to impose greater restrictions on male defendants, and to defer cases of male plaintiffs, and deny requests at 10-day hearings |
international | 2012 | The Partner Abuse State of Knowledge Project Manuscripts and Online Data Base: Overview of Findings, p. 32 | The Partner Abuse State of Knowledge Project | details |
372 | Workplace | No evidence for discrimination of women in STEM; not in grant and manuscript reviewing, interviewing, or hiring |
United States | 2010 | Understanding current causes of women's underrepresentation in science | Cornell University | details |
373 | Violence, Sexual | >60% of children molested in daycares, women are perpetrators |
2000 | Psychological profile of pedophiles and child molesters. | St John's University | details | |
374 | Violence, Sexual | Women perpetrators involved in 45% of child molestations (22% female-only perpetrator + 23% both male and female perpetrators) |
United States | 2005 | Long-term consequences of childhood sexual abuse by gender of victim | National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion | details |
375 | Violence, Sexual | Among student victims of educator SV: 57.2% report a male offender and 42.4% report a female offender |
United States | 2004 | Educator Sexual Misconduct: A Synthesis of Existing Literature | Department of Education | details |
376 | Incarceration | Both blacks and males (1) receive longer sentences, (2) are less likely to receive no prison term when that option is available, (3) more likely to receive upward departures, (4) less likely to receive downward departures, and, (5) when downward departures are given, blacks and males receive smaller adjustments than whites and females |
United States | 2001 | Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Sentencing: Evidence from the U.S. Federal Courts | University of Georgia | details |
377 | Education | Girls from age 4 and boys from age 7 believed, and thought adults believed, that boys are academically inferior to girls. |
United Kingdom | 2013 | A Stereotype Threat Account of Boys' Academic Underachievement | University of Kent | details |
378 | Patriarchy | Attitudes/stereotypes about women are extremely favorable - in fact, more favorable than those about men |
United States | 1989 | Gender Stereotypes and Attitudes Toward Women and Men | Purdue University | details |
379 | Patriarchy | Attitudes toward women appear to be more positive than those toward men |
international | 1993 | Are People Prejudiced Against Women? Some Answers From Research on Attitudes, Gender Stereotypes, and Judgments of Competence | Purdue University | details |
380 | Workplace | Research on competence judgments has not shown a pervasive tendency to devalue women's work |
international | 1993 | Are People Prejudiced Against Women? Some Answers From Research on Attitudes, Gender Stereotypes, and Judgments of Competence | Purdue University | details |
381 | Rape Culture | Author of the "1-in-5" statistic study says that the study is flawed, and that it's a mistake to apply it nationally. |
United States | 1993 | The Making of an Epidemic, p. 9 | The Blade newspaper | details |
382 | Economic Power | Women are the primary spenders in 77% of consumer markets in terms of proportion of spend directly controlled |
international | 2007 | Who Buys What: Identifying International Spending Patterns | Euromonitor International | details |
383 | Education | Among married couples, wives are 47% more likely to have more education than husbands (28% vs. 19%) |
United States | 2007 | Women, Men and the New Economics of Marriage, p. 1 | Pew Research Center | details |
384 | Workplace | Males accounted for about 75% of the 2008 decline in employment among prime-working-age individuals |
United States | 2009 | Women, Men and the New Economics of Marriage, p. 2 | Department of Labor | details |
385 | Education | Among college-educated adults, married men are more likely to have college-educated spouse than married women (71% vs. 64%) |
United States | 2007 | Women, Men and the New Economics of Marriage, p. 4 | Pew Research Center | details |
386 | Workplace | 1288 women-owned businesses are launched per day |
United States | 2013-2014 | 2014 State of Women-Owned Businesses Report, pp. 1, 8 | American Express OPEN | details |
387 | Workplace | Women own 30% of all private businesses |
United States | 2014 | 2014 State of Women-Owned Businesses Report, p. 2 | American Express OPEN | details |
388 | Income | Women are the primary breadwinners in over 40% of U.S. households |
United States | 2013 | Breadwinner Moms | Pew Research Center | details |
389 | Health | Boys born in December are 30% more likely to receive a diagnosis of ADHD than boys born in January |
Canada | 2012 | Influence of relative age on diagnosis and treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children | University of British Columbia, Victoria; University of British Columbia, Vancouver | details |
390 | Health | Boys born in December are 41% more likely to be given a prescription for a medication to treat ADHD than boys born in January |
Canada | 2012 | Influence of relative age on diagnosis and treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children | University of British Columbia, Victoria; University of British Columbia, Vancouver | details |
391 | Patriarchy | On the Titanic, the richest men (1st class) had a lower survival rate than the poorest women (32.57% vs. 46.06%) |
international | 1912 | British Parliamentary Papers, Shipping Casualties (Loss of the Steamship "Titanic") | details | |
392 | Workplace | Occupational segregation most extreme in countries that appear most committed to egalitarian reform and family-friendly policies |
international | 2004 | Occupational Ghettos: The Worldwide Segregation of Women and Men | University of California, Stanford University | details |
393 | Education | Boys are 9x as likely to be referred for an ADHD diagnosis by teachers |
United States | 2015 | Teaching the Male Brain: How Boys Think, Feel, and Learn in School, ch. 5, pt. 1 | Germanna Community College | details |
394 | Suicide | Married men are nearly 2x more likely to commit suicide than married women (63,343 vs. 31,921) |
India | 2012 | Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India, 2012, p. 183 | Ministry of Home Affairs | details |
395 | Suicide | "Family problems" were the cause of 25.6% of all suicides |
India | 2012 | Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India, 2012, p. 176 | Ministry of Home Affairs | details |
396 | Workplace | Despite being 17th in female labor participation among 22 OECD countries, US women more likely to have full-time jobs and to work as managers or professionals |
United States | 2010 | Female Labor Supply: Why is the US Falling Behind? | Cornell University | details |
397 | Feminist Activism | Feminists use 7 concrete methods (including harassment, threats, and academic/journalistic obstruction) to consciously distort facts of IPV |
international | 2007 | Processes Explaining the Concealment and Distortion of Evidence on Gender Symmetry in Partner Violence | University of New Hampshire | details |
398 | Feminist Activism | Feminist organization opposed 2009 stimulus for being too oriented in masculine professions, despite that fact that the vast majority of jobs lost in the recession were those of men |
United States | 2009 | Three Steps to Women's Fair Share of the Recovery | W.E.A.V.E. | details |
476 | Legal System | In cases of IPV, when the women called the police the man was ordered to leave the home 41.4% of the time; when the man called the police, the woman was never ordered to leave the home |
United States | 1988 | Disabusing the Definition of Domestic Abuse: How Women Batter Men and the Role of the Feminist State, pp. 831 | Indiana University | details |
400 | Legal System | IPV legislation is structured so that accusers with a history of proven false accusations cannot have that history brought up as evidence against claim |
United States | 1994 | Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, sec. 40141, p. 124 | United States of America | details |
401 | Feminist Activism | IPV legislation (slipped into a stimulus bill), structured to grant funds for assisting exclusively female (explicitly stated in 7 areas, implicitly stated in all) victims of crimes |
United States | 2009 | Violence Against Women Formula Grants, Uses and Use Restrictions (070) | United States of America | details |
402 | Incarceration | In the last thirty-five years, there has been a steady erosion of the due process rights of those accused of rape |
United States | 2008 | An Analysis of Thirty-Five Years of Rape Reform: A Frustrating Search for Fundamental Fairness | Touro College | details |
403 | Genital Mutilation | 30-33% of men in the world are circumcised (over 661.5 billion, ages 15+) |
international | 2007 | Male circumcision: Global trends and determinants of prevalence, safety and acceptability | World Health Organization, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids | details |
404 | Feminist Activism | It was a feminist, not "the Patriarchy," who wrote, lobbied for, and pushed through the legislation to make maternal custody the default |
United Kingdom | 1839 | A Plain Letter to the Lord Chancellor on the Infant Custody Bill | details | |
406 | Feminist Activism | The story of how feminists bullied, harassed, threatened with death, threatened with bombs, and killed the dog of the founder of the women's shelter movement because asserted that women, too, perpetrate IPV |
United Kingdom | 1999 | Who's Failing the Family | details | |
407 | Income | A contributing factor to the shortage in pharmacists is that female pharmacists work fewer hours per week than their male peers (37 vs. 44; 16% less) |
United States | 2001 | Differences between Male and Female Pharmacists in Part-Time Status and Employment Settings | University of Illinois | details |
408 | Income | A contributing factor to the shortage in pharmacists is that female pharmacists are more likely to work part time than their male peers (28% vs. 11%; 2.5x) |
United States | 2001 | Differences between Male and Female Pharmacists in Part-Time Status and Employment Settings | University of Illinois | details |
409 | Mortality | 92% of workplace fatalities are men |
United States | 2006 | Employment and fatalities, by gender of worker, 2006, p. 8 | Department of Labor | details |
410 | Violence | Men 25% more likely to be victim of a violent crime (29.1% vs. 23.3%) |
United States | 2012 | Criminal Victimization 2012, p. 7, table 7 | Department of Justice | details |
411 | Violence | Men 70% more likely to be victim of a serious violent crime (9.4% vs. 6.6%) |
United States | 2012 | Criminal Victimization 2012, p. 7, table 7 | Department of Justice | details |
412 | Workplace | Among Disability Insurance recipients, men are more likely to be disabled because of workplace accidents, injuries, or illnesses than women (45% vs 26.2%) |
United States | 1992 | The Fraction of Disability Caused at Work | Social Security Administration | details |
413 | Patriarchy | Since the 1980 presidential elections, the rate of women who voted has consistently been greater than that of men |
United States | 1964-2002 | Gender Differences in Voter Turnout, p. 1 | Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rugers University | details |
414 | Patriarchy | Since the 1986 non-presidential elections, the rate of women who voted has consistently been greater than that of men |
United States | 1964-2003 | Gender Differences in Voter Turnout, p. 2 | Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rugers University | details |
415 | Patriarchy | Since the 1964 presidential elections, the number of women who voted has consistently been greater than that of men |
United States | 1964-2004 | Gender Differences in Voter Turnout, p. 1 | Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rugers University | details |
416 | Patriarchy | Since the 1966 non-presidential elections, the number of women who voted has consistently been greater than that of men |
United States | 1964-2005 | Gender Differences in Voter Turnout, p. 2 | Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rugers University | details |
417 | Parenthood | A woman is entitled to sue the father of her child for child support even if conception occurred as a result of a statutory rape of a boy |
United States | 1993 | Hermesmann v. Seyer | State of Kansas | details |
419 | Parenthood | A woman is entitled to sue the father of her child for child support even if conception occurred as a result of a statutory rape of a boy |
United States | 2004 | In the Matter of the Paternity of K.B. | State of Oklahoma | details |
420 | Parenthood | A woman is entitled to sue the father of her child for child support even if conception occurred as a result of a statutory rape of a boy |
United States | 1996 | County of San Luis Obispo v. Nathaniel J. | State of California | details |
421 | Parenthood | A woman is entitled to sue the father of her child for child support even if conception occurred as a result of a statutory rape of a boy |
United States | 1989 | RE the Paternity of J.L.H.: J.J.G., v. L.H. | State of Wisconsin | details |
422 | Parenthood | A woman is entitled to sue the father of her child for child support even if conception occurred as a result of a statutory rape of a boy |
United States | 1992 | Imogene T. v. Alf M. | State of New York | details |
423 | Parenthood | A woman is entitled to sue the father of her child for child support even if conception occurred as a result of raping an unconscious man |
United States | 1996 | SF v. State Ex Rel. TM | State of Alabama | details |
424 | Violence, Sexual | 41% of perpetrators of conflict-associated sexual violence against women were women |
Congo | 2010 | Association of Sexual Violence and Human Rights Violations With Physical and Mental Health in Territories of the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo | Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard University, McGill University, StatAid, International Medical Corps, Special Operations Command Africa-United States Africa Command | details |
425 | Violence, Sexual | 10% of perpetrators of conflict-associated sexual violence against men were women |
Congo | 2010 | Association of Sexual Violence and Human Rights Violations With Physical and Mental Health in Territories of the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo | Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard University, McGill University, StatAid, International Medical Corps, Special Operations Command Africa-United States Africa Command | details |
426 | Divorce | 37.9% of fathers have no access/visitation rights |
United States | 1991 | Child Support and Alimony 1989 | Department of Commerce | details |
427 | Divorce | 20% of mothers saw no value whatsoever in the father's continued contact with his children and actively tried to sabotage the meetings |
United States | 1979 | Surviving the Brakup: How Children and Parents Cope with Divorce | details | |
436 | Income | There is no "marriage premium for men," but a correlation between the characteristits that lead to good marriages and those that produce good jobs and higher wages (i.e. - correlation causation) |
United States | 1995 | Marriage and Earnings, pp. 11, 19 | University of Georgia, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | details |
437 | Workplace | There is no significant gender gap in views about how having more women in the workplace affects marriage and child rearing. |
United States | 2013 | Breadwinner Moms | Pew Research Center | details |
438 | Workplace | In families where the mother out-earns the father, 71% have two working parents and 22% consist of couples in which the mother is the sole earner of the family. However, when the father out-earns the mother, he is more likely (41% of families) to be the sole breadwinner. |
United States | 2013 | Breadwinner Moms | Pew Research Center | details |
439 | Legal System | Currently, it is not legally possible for a woman to rape a man |
India | 2015 | Indian Penal Code | India | details |
440 | Feminist Activism | Feminist groups (not husbands) oppose default shared parenting legislation |
United States | 2005 | NOW - New York State Oppose Memo | National Organization for Women | details |
441 | Feminist Activism | Feminist groups (not husbands) oppose default shared parenting legislation |
United States | 2009 | NOW - New York State Oppose Memo: Mandatory Joint Custody | National Organization for Women | details |
442 | Feminist Activism | Feminist groups oppose mediation in divorce, insisting that everything goes through court systems |
United States | 2008 | NOW - New York State Oppose Memo: Mandated Mediation | National Organization for Women | details |
443 | Feminist Activism | Feminist groups (not husbands) oppose default shared parenting legislation |
United States | 1986 | NOW | National Organization for Women | details |
449 | Patriarchy | 80% of requests for gender-specific invitro fertilization are for girls |
Australia | 2013 | Baby sex-selection tours increasingly popular with Australian couples using IVF | Queensland Fertility Group | details |
450 | Parenthood | Mothers are more likely than fathers to be responsible for physical abuse (49% vs. 40% of incidents) |
United Kingdom | 2000 | Child Maltreatment in the United Kingdom: a Study of the Prevalence of Abuse and Neglect, p. 8 | NSPCC | details |
451 | Parenthood | Boys are slightly more likely than girls to experience violent treatment (i.e. - abuse) by adults at home |
United Kingdom | 2000 | Child Maltreatment in the United Kingdom: a Study of the Prevalence of Abuse and Neglect, p. 8 | NSPCC | details |
452 | Income | The "statistic" that boys earn more allowance than girls is, according to the authors of the original study themselves, cannot be considered a representative sample |
United States | 2014 | 2014 Teens and Personal Finance Survey | Junior Achievement | details |
453 | Economic Power | For years of life beyond male life expectancy, women receive 126% per person of what men receive |
United States | 2010 | Expenses for health care and prescribed medicine, by selected population characteristics: United States, selected years 1987–2010 | Center for Disease Control | details |
454 | Economic Power | Insurance plan premiums charged women ~18% more for similar plans, but total healthcare expenditures for women were 30% greater for women than men ($483.7 vs. $372.1 billion; individuals under 65) |
United States | 2010 | Expenses for health care and prescribed medicine, by selected population characteristics: United States, selected years 1987–2010 | Center for Disease Control | details |
455 | Economic Power | Insurance plan premiums charged women ~18% more for similar plans, but total healthcare expenditures for women were 21.9% greater for women than men ($222.9 vs. $182.9 billion; individuals 65+) |
United States | 2010 | Expenses for health care and prescribed medicine, by selected population characteristics: United States, selected years 1987–2010 | Center for Disease Control | details |
456 | Legal System | Currently, it is not legally possible for a woman to rape a man |
Israel | 2015 | Penal Law 5737-1977, article 345, pp. 100-101 | Israel | details |
457 | Violence, Sexual | When a female answers positively to the question "Someone forced me to have sex using physical force," it is coded as "rape." When a male answers positively to the exact same question, it is coded as "physically-forced sex." |
Chile | 2005 | Unwanted Sexual Experiences in Young Men: Evidence from a Survey of University Students in Chile | University of Arizona, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of Illinois | details |
459 | Media | Women have far more unrealistic expectations about male attractiveness than men have about female attractiveness |
United States | 2009 | Your Looks and Your Inbox | OkCupid | details |
460 | Homelessness | Men are 63.7% of all sheltered homeless persons |
United States | 2009 | The 2009 Annual Homeless Assessment Report, p. 23, , exhibit 3-1 | Department of Housing and Urban Development | details |
461 | Education | The boy-girl reading gap in reading grades given by teachers is over 300% larger than the black-white reading gap |
United States | 2011 | Non-cognitive Skills and the Gender Disparities in Test Scores and Teacher Assessments: Evidence from Primary School, p. 3 | University of Georgia, Columbia University | details |
462 | Education | The boy-girl reading gap in math and science teacher-given grades is 40 % larger than the corresponding black-white gaps |
United States | 2011 | Non-cognitive Skills and the Gender Disparities in Test Scores and Teacher Assessments: Evidence from Primary School, p. 3 | University of Georgia, Columbia University | details |
463 | Marriage | There is little gender gap in total work hours (paid plus unpaid), whether or not secondary activities are included |
international | 2009 | How Long Is the Second (Plus First) Shift? Gender Differences in Paid, Unpaid, and Total Work Time in Australia and the United States | details | |
465 | Dimorphism | Gender norms and identites are not purely social constructs |
international | 2009 | Sex differences in sex drive, sociosexuality, and height across 53 nations: testing evolutionary and social structural theories. | California State University | details |
466 | Marriage | Currently, it is legally impossible for a woman to be charged with adultery (a charge punishable by up to 5 years in prison and/or a fine) |
India | 2015 | Indian Penal Code | India | details |
467 | Divorce | For "no fault" divorce cases, a woman has legal grounds to oppose a grant while a man does not |
India | 2010 | Bill No. XLI of 2010, p. 2 | Parliament of India | details |
471 | Feminist Activism | Suzanne Steinmetz and her family received verbal threats (both in public and at home), threatening phone calls, and bomb threats because she was one of the first researchers to bring up "battered husbands." Women's rights activists lobbied to block her from receiving tenure. |
United States | 1997 | Disabusing the Definition of Domestic Abuse: How Women Batter Men and the Role of the Feminist State, p. 801 | Indiana University | details |
472 | Feminist Activism | When CTS methodology was used in studies examining wife abuse, the women's movement had no problem with it. When the same methodology was applied to the Family Violence Research study, the method of measuring violence was attacked. |
United States | 1993 | Disabusing the Definition of Domestic Abuse: How Women Batter Men and the Role of the Feminist State, p. 803 | Indiana University | details |
477 | Legal System | In cases of IPV, when the women called the police the man was threatened with arrest in 10.7% of cases; when the man called the police, the woman was never threatened with arrest |
United States | 1988 | Disabusing the Definition of Domestic Abuse: How Women Batter Men and the Role of the Feminist State, pp. 831 | Indiana University | details |
478 | Legal System | In cases of IPV, when the women called the police the man was threatened with arrest in 28.2% of all "second call" cases; when the man called the police, the woman was never threatened with arrest |
United States | 1988 | Disabusing the Definition of Domestic Abuse: How Women Batter Men and the Role of the Feminist State, pp. 831 | Indiana University | details |
491 | Legal System | Incidents with male victims of IPV were almost twice as likely to be cleared otherwise than by a charge as compared to incidents with female victims (29.0% vs. 15.8%) |
Canada | 2000 | Gender as a Factor in the Response of the law-Enforcement System to Violence Against Partners, p. 31 | details | |
490 | Violence | Women are twice as fearful for their lives as men given a similar objective probability of death |
Canada | 1999 | Gender as a Factor in the Response of the law-Enforcement System to Violence Against Partners, pp. 19-20 | details | |
493 | Legal System | Officers refused to recommend charges against the woman perpetrator of IPV over 3x as often as they did regarding charges against the man (66% vs. 20%) |
Canada | 1993 | Gender as a Factor in the Response of the law-Enforcement System to Violence Against Partners, p. 32 | details | |
494 | Legal System | Men nearly 3x more likely to be charged when accused of IPV than women (70.4% vs. 23.6%) |
Canada | 1992-1996 | Gender as a Factor in the Response of the law-Enforcement System to Violence Against Partners, p. 32 | details | |
495 | Legal System | Women less likely to be prosecuted than men, even when recommended for charges by the police (16% vs. 6% not prosecuted) |
Canada | 2000 | Gender as a Factor in the Response of the law-Enforcement System to Violence Against Partners, p. 37 | details | |
496 | Legal System | Male more likely to be charged in IPV cases where only one partner is injured (91.1% vs. 60.2%) |
Canada | 2000 | Gender as a Factor in the Response of the law-Enforcement System to Violence Against Partners, p. 51 | details | |
497 | Legal System | Male more likely to be charged in IPV cases where both partners are injured (71.0% vs. 34.4%) |
Canada | 2000 | Gender as a Factor in the Response of the law-Enforcement System to Violence Against Partners, p. 51 | details | |
498 | Legal System | Male more likely to be charged in IPV cases where no one is injured (95.3% of cases) |
Canada | 2000 | Gender as a Factor in the Response of the law-Enforcement System to Violence Against Partners, p. 51 | details | |
499 | Legal System | In IPV cases, when women were charged with an offense, male victim suffered a majory injury 6.2% of the time; when men were charged, female victim suffered a major injury only 4.4% of the time |
Canada | 2000 | Gender as a Factor in the Response of the law-Enforcement System to Violence Against Partners, p. 52 | details | |
500 | Legal System | In IPV cases, when women were charged with an offense, male victim received medical attention in 9.0% of incidents; when men were charged, female victim received medical attention in 5.5% of incidents |
Canada | 2000 | Gender as a Factor in the Response of the law-Enforcement System to Violence Against Partners, p. 52 | details | |
501 | Legal System | In IPV cases, when women were charged with an offense, male victim received minor injury in 73.6% of incidents; when men were charged, female victim received minor injury in 65.7% of incidents |
Canada | 2000 | Gender as a Factor in the Response of the law-Enforcement System to Violence Against Partners, p. 52 | details | |
502 | Legal System | In IPV cases, man 100% likely to be charged when woman suffers major injury, woman 75% likely to be charged when man suffered major injury |
Canada | 2000 | Gender as a Factor in the Response of the law-Enforcement System to Violence Against Partners, p. 53 | details | |
503 | Legal System | In IPV cases, man 87.1% likely to be charged when woman suffers minor injury, woman 43.9% likely to be charged when man suffered minor injury |
Canada | 2000 | Gender as a Factor in the Response of the law-Enforcement System to Violence Against Partners, p. 53 | details | |
504 | Legal System | In IPV cases, man 90.4% likely to be charged when woman is only one to suffer minor injury, woman 57.8% likely to be charged when man is only one to suffer minor injury |
Canada | 2000 | Gender as a Factor in the Response of the law-Enforcement System to Violence Against Partners, pp. 53-54 | details | |
505 | Legal System | In IPV cases, man 53.4% likely to be charged when woman suffered no injury, woman 2.2% likely to be charged when man suffers no injury |
Canada | 2000 | Gender as a Factor in the Response of the law-Enforcement System to Violence Against Partners, p. 54 | details | |
506 | Legal System | Women who injured their partners more than 2x as likely to benefit from an by law enforcement excuse not to lay a charge than men who injured their partners (28.4% vs. 12.0%) |
Canada | 2000 | Gender as a Factor in the Response of the law-Enforcement System to Violence Against Partners, p. 56 | details | |
507 | Legal System | In IPV cases, when man is only one injured, neither party is charged in 29.6% of cases; when only woman is injured, neither party is charged in 8.6% of cases |
Canada | 2000 | Gender as a Factor in the Response of the law-Enforcement System to Violence Against Partners, p. 61 | details | |
509 | Legal System | In IPV cases, 40.7% of cases wherein a man was charged with common assault when no injury had been inflicted upon their partners; for women, 26.2% |
Canada | 2001 | Gender as a Factor in the Response of the law-Enforcement System to Violence Against Partners, p. 82 | details | |
510 | Legal System | In IPV cases, men who were charged were 50% more likely than women who were charged to be taken into custody (60% vs. 40%) |
Canada | 2001 | Gender as a Factor in the Response of the law-Enforcement System to Violence Against Partners, p. 83 | details | |
511 | Legal System | In IPV cases, women who were charged in medium- and high-injury cases were less likely to be taken into custody (50.0%) than men who were charged in NO-INJURY cases (54.2%) |
Canada | 2001 | Gender as a Factor in the Response of the law-Enforcement System to Violence Against Partners, pp. 84-85 | details | |
512 | Legal System | In IPV cases, being male is more likely to result in receiving a more severe penalty on a plea bargain than any other factor, including the level of injury to the victim |
Canada | 2001 | Gender as a Factor in the Response of the law-Enforcement System to Violence Against Partners, p. 99 | details | |
336 | Sexuality | Though men have historically been in control of the legal system, laws are generally used to control male sexuality, not female sexuality |
United States | 1988 | Cultural Suppression of Female Sexuality, p. 193 | Case Western Reserve University, San Diego State University | details |
513 | Education | In surveys of 10,320 college students across 38 sites and 20 countries, there was greater Gender Hostility toward men than toward women |
international | 2007 | Predictors of Sexual Coercion Against Women and Men: A Multilevel, Multinational Study of University Students, pp. 409, 411, 413 | Clark University | details |
514 | Violence, Sexual | College men and women reported equal rates of Coercive Sexual Activity victimization (30% vs. 32%) |
international | 2007 | Predictors of Sexual Coercion Against Women and Men: A Multilevel, Multinational Study of University Students, pp. 412, 414 | Clark University | details |
515 | Violence, Sexual | College men sustained forced sex from their current/most recent romantic partner more than college women (3.0% vs. 2.3%) |
international | 2007 | Predictors of Sexual Coercion Against Women and Men: A Multilevel, Multinational Study of University Students, pp. 412, 414 | Clark University | details |
516 | Violence, Sexual | College men and women reported equal rates of verbal sexual coercion (22.0% vs. 25%) |
international | 2007 | Predictors of Sexual Coercion Against Women and Men: A Multilevel, Multinational Study of University Students, pp. 412, 414 | Clark University | details |
517 | Violence, Sexual | College men more than college women were threatened into having oral/anal sex (1.9% vs. 1.7%) and vaginal sex (1.9% vs. 1.8%) |
international | 2007 | Predictors of Sexual Coercion Against Women and Men: A Multilevel, Multinational Study of University Students, pp. 412, 414 | Clark University | details |
518 | Violence, Sexual | Among minor-aged (12-18) street-involved kids, males are more sexually exploited (33% vs. 24% in 2000; 34% vs. 27% in 2006) |
Canada | 2006 | It's Not What You Think: Sexually Exploited Youth in British Columbia, pp. 6, 19 | University of British Columbia | details |
519 | Violence, Sexual | Half of street-involved youth were Sexually Exploited by females |
Canada | 2008 | It's Not What You Think: Sexually Exploited Youth in British Columbia, p. 6 | University of British Columbia | details |
520 | Violence, Sexual | Among street-involved kids, males and females are equally likely to be sexually exploited |
Canada | 2008 | It's Not What You Think: Sexually Exploited Youth in British Columbia, pp. 19, 28 | University of British Columbia | details |
521 | Violence, Sexual | Among street-involved kids, more than 3 out of 4 males were sexually exploited by women (79%) |
Canada | 2008 | It's Not What You Think: Sexually Exploited Youth in British Columbia, p. 30 | University of British Columbia | details |
522 | Incarceration | Male:female sex ratios among persons held behind bars: |
United Kingdom | 1750-2010 | Composition of Punishment in England and Wales since 1750 | United Kingdom | details |
523 | Feminist Activism | Trauma does not equal PTSD. Only 9.2% of those who experienced trauma (rape, natural disasters, serious accidents, sudden death of loved ones) developed PTSD |
United States | 2001 | The stressor criterion in DSM-IV posttraumatic stress disorder: an empirical investigation. | Henry Ford Health System | details |
524 | Rape Culture | 81.9% of sexual assaults occur before the age of 18 years |
United States | 2012 | Influence of predispositions on post-traumatic stress disorder: does it vary by trauma severity? | Michigan State University, Department of Veteran's Affairs | details |
525 | Feminist Activism | Of rape victims who develop PTSD, half recover within 3 months of the trauma |
United States | 2012 | A prospective examination of post-traumatic stress disorder in rape victims | Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute | details |
526 | Feminist Activism | Effective treatment for PTSD includes (1) exposure, (2) cognitive restructuring, (3) coping skills. Avoidance is not recommended. |
United States | 2008 | Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Assessment of the Evidence, p.93 | Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice | details |
527 | Feminist Activism | For victims of sexual abuse, the more central their abuse is to their identity, the worse their PTSD symptoms |
United States | 2011 | Trauma centrality and PTSD symptom severity in adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. | details | |
528 | False Rape | 5.9% of rape cases confirmed false; 44.9% did not proceed |
United States | 2010 | False Allegations of Sexual Assualt: An Analysis of Ten Years of Reported Cases, p. 1330 | University of Massachusetts, Northeastern University | details |
529 | False Rape | Confirmed false rape accusations range somewhere between 2.1% and 10.9% |
United States | 1977-2010 | False Allegations of Sexual Assualt: An Analysis of Ten Years of Reported Cases, p. 1330 | University of Massachusetts, Northeastern University | details |
530 | Workplace | At start of career, women have greater aspiration than men to reach top management (43% vs. 34%); after 2 years, men's aspirations have stayed the same while womens' drop by nearly 2/3 (43% to 16%) |
United States | 2014 | Everyday Moments of Truth: Frontline managers are key to women’s career aspirations, p. 3 | Bain & Company | details |
531 | Workplace | The top 5 employee characteristics for promotion/advancement: willing to take on high-profile projects, willing to put in extra hours (in early, out late), Able to promote own achievements, Adept networker, "Always on" |
United States | 2014 | Everyday Moments of Truth: Frontline managers are key to women’s career aspirations, p. 7 | Bain & Company | details |
532 | Workplace | Seeking help is negatively related to perceived competence for male (but not female) leaders |
United States | 2015 | Are male leaders penalized for seeking help? The influence of gender and asking behaviors on competence perceptions | Duke University, University of San Diego, University of Pittsburgh | details |
533 | Media | Males are considered "unworthy" victims: un(der)reported in news outlets, suffering minimized, ignored, or sanitized |
United States | 2001 | Effacing the Male: Gender, Misrepresentation, and Exclusion in the Kosovo War | University of British Columbia | details |
534 | Violence, Sexual | Both men and women (38.8% vs. 47.9% pressured into a range of sexual activity: kissing, cuddling, fondling, oral sex, intecourse) |
Canada | 2007 | Characteristics of male and female victims of sexual coercion, p. 31 | University of Guelph | details |
535 | Violence, Sexual | No significant gender difference in men and women who reported being sexually coerced when intoxicated |
Canada | 2007 | Characteristics of male and female victims of sexual coercion, pp. 36-37 | University of Guelph | details |
536 | Violence, Sexual | No significant gender difference in men and women in either coerced oral sex or coerced intercourse |
Canada | 2007 | Characteristics of male and female victims of sexual coercion, p. 36 | University of Guelph | details |
537 | Legal System | Courts may admit evidence of the defendant's commission of other offense(s); this is not true of the accusor (see Item #400) |
United States | 2015 | Federal Rule of Evidence 413 | United States of America | details |
538 | Divorce | Courts have financial and performance incentives to increase frequency of child support rulings, increase amount of child support rulings, custody arrangements which require mediation for access/visitation, and other such conflicts of interest |
United States | 2015 | US CODE TITLE 42 > CHAPTER 7 > SUBCHAPTER IV > Part D | United States of America | details |
539 | Legal System | Currently, it is not legally possible for a woman to rape a man |
United Kingdom | 2015 | Sexual Offences Act 2003, Part I, Sections 1-4 | United Kingdom | details |
540 | Genital Mutilation | Rates of unanesthetized circumcisions by practitioner type: Pediatrician (29%), Family practitioner (44%), Obstetrician (75%) |
United States | 1998 | Circumcision practice patterns in the United States | HealthPartners Medical Group | details |
541 | Genital Mutilation | Circumcision has no statistically significant protective effect in the prevention of HIV transmission |
South Africa | 2008 | Male circumcision and its relationship to HIV infection in South Africa: results of a national survey in 2002 | Medical Research Council | details |
542 | Genital Mutilation | The American Academy of Pediatrics does not recommend routine neonatal circumcision |
United States | 1999 | Circumcision Policy Statement | American Academy of Pediatrics | details |
543 | Genital Mutilation | "Parental preference alone is not sufficient justification for performing a surgical procedure [circumcision] on a child." |
United Kingdom | 2006 | The law & ethics of male circumcision - guidance for doctors | British Medical Association | details |
544 | Genital Mutilation | "The frequency of diseases modifiable by circumcision, the level of protection offered by circumcision and the complication rates of circumcision do not warrant routine infant circumcision." |
Australia | 2010 | Circumcision of Male Infants | The Royal Australasian College of Physicians | details |
545 | Genital Mutilation | "Circumcision of newborns should not be routinely performed." |
Canada | 1996 | Neonatal circumcision revisited | The Canadian Paediatric Society | details |
546 | Genital Mutilation | "There is no convincing evidence that circumcision is useful or necessary in terms of prevention or hygiene... circumcision entails the risk of medical and psychological complications... Non-therapeutic circumcision of male minors conflicts with the child's right to autonomy and physical integrity." |
Netherlands | 2010 | Non-therapeutic circumcision of male minors | The Royal Dutch Medical Association | details |
547 | Dimorphism | Men and women only have 10-24% overlap of personality characteristics |
United States | 2012 | The Distance Between Mars and Venus: Measuring Global Sex Differences in Personality | University of Turin, University of Manchester | details |
548 | Education | 67.6% of Pell grants since 2009 have gone to women |
United States | 2012 | Keeping America's Women Moving Forward | United States of America | details |
549 | Dimorphism | Women have more empathy and higher altruistic values; men have more altruistic love (i.e. - sacrifice/selflessness) |
United States | 2006 | Altruism and Empathy in America: Trends and Correlates, pp. 13-14 | University of Chicago | details |
550 | Violence | Women have a hightened sense of fear of violent crime despite less objective risk (and a low "perceived likelihood that they would happen") |
United States | 2003 | Women's and Men's Fear of Gang Crimes: Sexual and Nonsexual Assault as Perceptually Contemporaneous Offenses, pp. 338-340, 352, 363 | University of Florida, University of California | details |
551 | Violence, Sexual | Fear of sexual violence affects both women and men (1-5% variance vs. 1-2% variance) |
United States | 2003 | Women's and Men's Fear of Gang Crimes: Sexual and Nonsexual Assault as Perceptually Contemporaneous Offenses, pp. 359-364 | University of Florida, University of California | details |
552 | Violence | In examining who is afraid of crime and why, virtually every study has come up with the conclusion that women and the elderly fear crime the most, and this fear is not justified by their victimization rate. |
Canada | 1999 | Fear of Crime | The John Howard Society of Alberta | details |
553 | Workplace | STEM majors have been at 50% female for more than a decade |
United States | 2014 | Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape, p. 75 | Cornell University, University of Kansas, Boston University | details |
554 | Workplace | Men and women have equivalent access to tenure-track academic jobs in science and math, they persist and are remunerated at comparable rates, and fare at least as well as their male counterparts in employment offers |
United States | 2014 | Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape, p. 75 | Cornell University, University of Kansas, Boston University | details |
555 | Workplace | Women are equally likely to be presidents, provosts, and chancellors at universities (1.2% vs. 1.2%) |
United States | 2014 | Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape, p. 83 | Cornell University, University of Kansas, Boston University | details |
556 | Education | By 2011, women in GEEMP fields (geoscience, engineering, economics, mathematics/computer science, and the physical sciences) are as likely as men to advance from a baccalaureate degree to a PhD and then to advance to a tenure-track assistant professorship. |
United States | 2014 | Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape, p. 83 | Cornell University, University of Kansas, Boston University | details |
557 | Education | Female AP students outnumber male AP students (55% vs. 45%) |
United States | 2014 | Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape, p. 93 | Cornell University, University of Kansas, Boston University | details |
558 | Education | Womens' comparative advantage between reading/English vs. math/science explains 85% of the STEM gap |
United States | 2014 | Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape, p. 95 | Cornell University, University of Kansas, Boston University | details |
559 | Education | Of high school senior girls and boys who intend a STEM/MD occupation in the future, fewer females actually declared a STEM/MD major than males (50.0% vs. 66.5%) |
United States | 2014 | Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape, p. 95 | Cornell University, University of Kansas, Boston University | details |
560 | Education | Of high school senior girls and boys who intend a science/enghineering major in the future, fewer females actually pursued a science/engineering major than males (16.0% vs. 28.5%) |
United States | 2014 | Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape, p. 96 | Cornell University, University of Kansas, Boston University | details |
561 | Education | Although far more men than women (28.1% vs. 16.0%) entered college intending to major in science and engineering more men dropped a science major during college, so that by the end, the ratio of male to female majors in this particular college had fallen from 1.76:1 to the insignificantly different 1.08:1 |
United States | 2014 | Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape, pp. 97-98 | Cornell University, University of Kansas, Boston University | details |
562 | Education | Females attach greater importance to getting high grades than do males and are therefore more likely to drop courses in which their grades may be lower - the so-called “fear of B-.” |
United States | 2014 | Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape, p. 98 | Cornell University, University of Kansas, Boston University | details |
563 | Education | When grades held constant, gender not a significant predictor of persistence in engineering and biology |
United States | 2014 | Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape, p. 98 | Cornell University, University of Kansas, Boston University | details |
564 | Education | Women and men are equally likely to proceed to a higher degree in science/engineering within 2-3 years of receipt of bachelor's degree |
United States | 2014 | Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape, p. 99 | Cornell University, University of Kansas, Boston University | details |
565 | Workplace | Among 30-35 year-old college STEM majors, if Health Practitioners and Educators involved in the STEM fields in some way are included, the proportions of men and women involved in science in their careers is close to equal (51.2% vs. 45.2%) |
United States | 2014 | Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape, p. 99 | Cornell University, University of Kansas, Boston University | details |
566 | Workplace | Female applicants for tenure-track positions are invited to interview and offered jobs at rates higher than their fraction of the applicant pool - the opposite of the bias claim - in all 6 STEM disciplines studied |
United States | 2014 | Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape, pp. 100-101 | Cornell University, University of Kansas, Boston University | details |
567 | Workplace | In the most common demographic group - unmarried without children - females were 16% more likely to get tenure-track jobs than were males. |
United States | 2014 | Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape, p. 101 | Cornell University, University of Kansas, Boston University | details |
568 | Workplace | In tenure position hiring in 19 STEM fields, 2.03% of male applicants were hired compared with 4.28% of females |
United States | 2014 | Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape, p. 101 | Cornell University, University of Kansas, Boston University | details |
569 | Workplace | The female superiority in tenure track hiring outcomes is not due to objectively higher female quality. These experimental findings are compatible with the hiring data showing gender neutrality or even a female preference in actual hiring. |
United States | 2014 | Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape, p. 102 | Cornell University, University of Kansas, Boston University | details |
570 | Workplace | The number of publications increases the academic promotion to full professorship of women considerably more than it does that of men |
United States | 2014 | Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape, p. 103 | Cornell University, University of Kansas, Boston University | details |
571 | Workplace | For two decades, male and female academics have similar journal-acceptance rates, grant-funding rates, and citations-per-article |
United States | 2014 | Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape, pp. 111-115 | Cornell University, University of Kansas, Boston University | details |
572 | Workplace | There is no significant sex difference in promotion to tenure and full prfessor in the GEEMP fields |
United States | 2014 | Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape, pp. 115-116 | Cornell University, University of Kansas, Boston University | details |
573 | Education | Girls in gradeschool receive positive discrimination in math |
France | 2015 | Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape, pp. 115-116 | London School of Economics | details |
574 | Violence, Sexual | 21% of inmates pressured or forced to have sexual contact; 7% raped |
United States | 2000 | No Escape: Male Rape in US Prisons | Human Rights Watch | details |
575 | Violence, Sexual | 22% of male inmates pressured or forced to have sexual contact; >11% raped |
United States | 1996 | No Escape: Male Rape in US Prisons | Human Rights Watch | details |
576 | Violence, Sexual | According to inmates, roughly 1/3 coerced into participation in inmate-on-inmate sex |
United States | 1996-1999 | No Escape: Male Rape in US Prisons | Human Rights Watch | details |
577 | Violence, Sexual | 4.5% of prisoners sexually abused at least once in prior 12 months |
United States | 2007 | National Prison Rape Elimination Commission Report, p. 4 | National Institute of Corrections | details |
578 | Violence, Sexual | 64% of sexually abused minors in juvenile detention facilities are boys |
United States | 2006 | National Prison Rape Elimination Commission Report, p. 17 | National Institute of Corrections | details |
579 | Violence, Sexual | 4.0% of prison inmates, 3.2% of jail inmates sexually abused at least once in prior 12 months |
United States | 2012 | Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates, 2011–12, p. 6 | Department of Justice | details |
580 | Violence, Sexual | Only 5.8% of prisons and 9.5% of jails reported no incidents of sexual victimization in prior 12 months |
United States | 2012 | Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates, 2011–12, p. 6 | Department of Justice | details |
581 | Income | When there is no explicit statement that wages are negotiable, men are more likely to negotiate than women; men prefer job environments where the "rules of wage determination" are ambiguous |
United States | 2012 | Do Women Avoid Salary Negotiations? Evidence from a Large Scale Natural Field Experiment | National Bureau of Economic Research | details |
582 | Income | Men nearly 3x more likely to have 41+ hour workweeks (41% vs. 14%; full-time workers) |
United States | 2009 | Highlights of Women's Earnings in 2009, p. 2 | Department of Labor | details |
583 | Income | Women 2.6x more likely to have 35-39 hour workweeks (13% vs. 5%; full-time workers) |
United States | 2009 | Highlights of Women's Earnings in 2009, p. 2 | Department of Labor | details |
584 | Violence | In 11 out of 13 states (85%), boys are physically abused more than girls |
India | 2007 | Study on Child Abuse: India 2007, p.45 | Government of India | details |
585 | Violence | In 11 out of 13 states (85%), boys are physically abused in multiple contexts (by parents, by non-parents, at school, at other institutions) more often than girls |
India | 2007 | Study on Child Abuse: India 2007, p.47 | Government of India | details |
586 | Parenthood | Within family contexts, boys are physically abused 12% more freqently than girls (52.91% vs. 47.09%) |
India | 2007 | Study on Child Abuse: India 2007, p.50 | Government of India | details |
587 | Education | Within educational contexts, boys 'receive corporal punishment' 19% more frequently than girls (54.28% vs. 45.72%) |
India | 2007 | Study on Child Abuse: India 2007, p.52 | Government of India | details |
588 | Violence | Of children in need of care and protection who go into children's homes and shelter homes, boys are physically abused 70% more often than girls (66.18% vs. 38.92%) |
India | 2007 | Study on Child Abuse: India 2007, p.55 | Government of India | details |
589 | Violence, Sexual | Boys are sexually abused 23% more often than girls (48% vs. 39%) |
India | 2007 | Study on Child Abuse: India 2007, p.74 | Government of India | details |
590 | Violence, Sexual | In 9 out of 13 states (69%), boys are sexually abused more than girls |
India | 2007 | Study on Child Abuse: India 2007, p.75 | Government of India | details |
591 | Violence, Sexual | Boys are victims of severe forms of sexual abuse (sexual assault, making the child fondle private parts, making the child exhibit private body parts and being photographed in the nude) 34% more often than girls (57.3% vs. 42.7%) |
India | 2007 | Study on Child Abuse: India 2007, p.75 | Government of India | details |
592 | Violence, Sexual | In 9 out of 13 states (69%), boys are sexually abused in multiple contexts (by parents, by non-parents, at school, at other institutions) more often than girls |
India | 2007 | Study on Child Abuse: India 2007, p.77 | Government of India | details |
593 | Violence, Sexual | Of sub-categories of sexual violence, boys are victimized more than girls in 6 out of 9 categories |
India | 2007 | Study on Child Abuse: India 2007, pp. 80-95 | Government of India | details |
594 | Violence | Boys are emotionally abused as often as girls (49.99% vs. 50.01%) |
India | 2007 | Study on Child Abuse: India 2007, p. 106 | Government of India | details |
595 | Violence, Intimate Partner | While husband-to-wife violence declined (121 to 113 per 1000, a ), wife-to husband violence increased (116 to 121 per 1000) |
United States of America | 1975-1985 | Societal Change and Change in Family Violence from 1975 to 1985 As Revealed by Two National Surveys, p. 470 | University of New Hampshire, University of Rhode Island | details |
596 | Violence, Intimate Partner | The vast majority of female-to-male IPV incidents have little to do with self-defense or preemptive strikes |
Australia | 2004 | Deconstructing Self-Defense in Wife-to-Husband Violence | Charles Sturt University | details |
597 | Violence, Intimate Partner | For female prepetrators of IPV who claim self-defense, 87% change their story when told that relatives/witnesses related different accounts |
Australia | 2004 | Deconstructing Self-Defense in Wife-to-Husband Violence, p. 290 | Charles Sturt University | details |
598 | Sexuality | Women shame and isolate (exhibit 'indirect aggression' toward) other women on the basis of degree/demonstration of sexuality |
Canada | 2011 | Intolerance of sexy peers: intrasexual competition among women | University of Ottawa | details |
599 | Violence, Sexual | 1/3 of self-reported sexual assault victims are male (15 vs. 34 per 1000) |
Canada | 2009 | Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Assault: Their Experiences, p. 3 | Department of Justice | details |
600 | Violence, Sexual | Only 3 organizations in the country dedicated to providing services to male survivors of sexual assault |
Canada | 2008 | Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Assault: Their Experiences, p. 6 | Department of Justice | details |
601 | Legal System | Murderers who kill male victims receive shorter sentences than those who kill black victims (40.6% vs. 26.8% reduction in sentences) |
United States of America | 2000 | The Determinants of Punishment: Deterrence, Incapacitation and Vengeance, pp. 9, 12-13, Tables 4a-4b | Harvard Institute of Economic Research | details |
602 | Legal System | Among vehicular homicides, drivers who kill women get 56% longer sentences. Drivers who kill blacks get 53% shorter sentences. |
United States of America | 2000 | The Determinants of Punishment: Deterrence, Incapacitation and Vengeance, pp. 1, 13, Tables 4c-4d | Harvard Institute of Economic Research | details |
603 | Dimorphism | Male baby chimpanzees have significantly more adult male social partners than baby female chimpanzees; there is no difference between the genders in adult female social partners |
international | 2014 | Boys will be boys: sex differences in wild infant chimpanzee social interactions | Franklin & Marshall College, Lincoln Park Zoo, The George Washington University, University of Chicago, the Jane Goodall Institute | details |
604 | Dimorphism | Young female chimpanzees use sticks to facilitate play-mothering, which lasts until motherhood; young male chimpanzees do not exhibit such behavior |
international | 2010 | Sex differences in chimpanzees' use of sticks as play objects resemble those of children | Bates College, Harvard University | details |
605 | Media | Men are portrayed unfavorably in the media 5.75x more frequently than favorably (69% unfavorable, 19% neutral/balanced, 12% favorable) |
international | 2006 | Media and Male Identity: The Making and Remaking of Men | University of Western Sydney | details |
606 | Media | >75% of representations of men/male identity in mass media show men as one of the following: villains, aggressors, perverts, philanderers |
international | 2006 | Media and Male Identity: The Making and Remaking of Men | University of Western Sydney | details |
607 | Media | When men/boys are protrayed in the media as sensitive, emotional, or caring, these behaviors are described as their 'feminine side' |
international | 2006 | Media and Male Identity: The Making and Remaking of Men | University of Western Sydney | details |
608 | Media | By 1990, the mother figure in sitcoms made fun of the father figure more >2x more (176 vs. 81) than the father made fun of the mother |
United States | 2001 | From Wise to Foolish: The Portrayal of the Sitcom Father, 1950s-1990s, p. 34 | University of Massachusetts - Amherst | details |
609 | Media | Only 15% of prime time programs portray fathers as central figures. Of these, only 40% depict fathers as a positive role model. |
United States | 1998 | A Good Television Dad Is Hard to Find | National Fatherhood Initiative | details |
610 | Media | Dads 8x more likely to be portrayed in a negative light when compared to moms |
United States | 2007 | Media and the State of Fatherhood | National Fatherhood Initiative | details |
611 | Media | Children believe that men on television are usually portrayed as violent and angry (72% and 69% of the time, respectively) |
United States | 1999 | Boys to Men: Entertainment Media. Messages About Masculinity: A National Poll of Children, Focus Groups, and Content Analysis of Entertainment Media | details | |
612 | False Rape | 53% of rape allegations are demonstrably false |
India | 2014 | Women's panel claims over HALF the rape cases registered in past year were false allegations | Delhi Commission for Women | details |
613 | False Rape | Demonstrably false rape allegations rose by 71% from 2013 to 2014 |
India | 2014 | Women's panel claims over HALF the rape cases registered in past year were false allegations | Delhi Commission for Women | details |
614 | Parenthood | >18% of all father-only families are poor, and almost half of these have incomes that <50% of the poverty line |
United States | 1993 | Myths about custodial fathers | University of Wisconsin - Madison | details |
615 | Divorce | Women initiate the majority of divorces |
United States | 2004 | He Left, She Left: Gains to Marriage, Relative Resources, and Divorce Initiation, p. 4 | Stanford University, Ohio State University, University of Pennsylvania | details |
616 | Divorce | ~70% of divorce filings are initiated by women |
United Kingdom | 2000 | The Consequences of Female Empowerment for Child Well-Being: A Review of Concepts, Issues, and Evidence in a Post-Cairo Context, p. 171 | University of York | details |
617 | Divorce | Divorce is more likely when men's earnings are lower or declining |
United States | 2000 | He Left, She Left: Gains to Marriage, Relative Resources, and Divorce Initiation, p. 8 | Stanford University, Ohio State University, University of Pennsylvania | details |
618 | Mortality | Death rates from violence-related injuries is 4.1x greater for men ages 75+ than for women (36.46 vs. 8.96 per 100k) |
United States | 2010 | Fatal Injury Reports, National and Regional, 1999 - 2013 | United States Government | details |
619 | Mortality | Death rates from violence-related injuries is 7x greater for men than for women women (38.12 vs. 5.43 per 100k) |
United States | 2010 | Fatal Injury Reports, National and Regional, 1999 - 2013 | United States Government | details |
620 | Mortality | Accidental death rates are 2.2x greater for men than for women (63.32 vs. 35.4 per 100k) |
United States | 2010 | Fatal Injury Reports, National and Regional, 1999 - 2013 | United States Government | details |
621 | Violence, Intimate Partner | The first helpline for male victims of IPV - DAHM - only opened in 2000 (it is now closed) |
United States | 2007 | Characteristics of Callers to the Domestic Abuse Helpline for Men, p. 64 | University of Massachusetts - Lowell, DAHM, Family Interventions Project | details |
622 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Male IPV victims received less than 0.05% of emergency shelter or transitional housing assistance |
United States | 2006 | Domestic Violence Counts, Appendix 4: Communities and Individuals Served | National Network to End Domestic Violence | details |
623 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Only 8% of victims of IPV served through federal domestic violence grant programs are men |
United States | 2010 | 2010 Biennial Report to Congress on the Effectiveness of Grant Programs Under the Violence Against Women Act, p. 14 | Department of Justice | details |
624 | Violence, Intimate Partner | 36% of victims of IPV are male |
United States | 2000 | Extent, Nature, and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence: Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey, p. 9 | Department of Justice | details |
625 | Violence, Intimate Partner | 53% of victims of IPV are male |
United States | 2012 | US National Survey: more men than women victims of intimate partner violence | University of Phoenix | details |
626 | Income | Gender pay gap is 2.7% when compensable factors (industry, experience, education, hours worked and location) taken into account |
United States | 2015 | Inside the Gender Pay Gap | Payscale.com | details |
627 | Income | At individual contributor level, pay gap is 2.2% when compensable factors taken in to account. |
United States | 2015 | Inside the Gender Pay Gap | Payscale.com | details |
628 | Income | The wage gap doesn't exist for single, childless men and women who say that they never prioritize family over work |
United States | 2015 | Inside the Gender Pay Gap | Payscale.com | details |
629 | Workplace | Women make up 48% of managers/supervisors, 49% of directors, and 57% of individual contributors |
United States | 2015 | Inside the Gender Pay Gap | Payscale.com | details |
630 | Income | The controlled income gap is smaller in the tech industry than in general (1-2% vs. 2-5%) |
United States | 2015 | Inside the Gender Pay Gap | Payscale.com | details |
631 | Violence, Sexual | 59% of men convicted of raping women were sexually molested by a woman when between the ages of 4-16. 14% of the convicts had been molested by 2+ females. |
United States | 1984 | Heterosexual Molestation of Children Who Later Became Rapists | California School of Professional Psychology - Fresno | details |
632 | Income | The median CEO compensation package is greater for women than it is for men ($15.9 vs. $10.4) |
United States | 2015 | Equilar/Associated Press Pay Study | Equilar | details |
633 | Violence | 94.8% of victims of police shootings are male |
United States | 2015 | Fatal police shootings in 2015 approaching 400 nationwide | Washington Post | details |
634 | Incarceration | 93.3% of federal inmates are male (191,321 vs. 13,699) |
United States | 2015 | Inmate Gender | United States Government | details |
635 | Education | For all years for which there is data, women have high school degrees at a higher rate than men |
United States | 2015 | Digest of Education Statistics; Table 104.20.Percentage of persons 25 to 29 years old with selected levels of educational attainment, by race/ethnicity and sex: Selected years, 1920 through 2014 | National Center for Education Statistics | details |
636 | Education | Since 1995, women have received Bachelor's degrees at a higher rate than men |
United States | 2015 | Digest of Education Statistics; Table 104.20.Percentage of persons 25 to 29 years old with selected levels of educational attainment, by race/ethnicity and sex: Selected years, 1920 through 2014 | National Center for Education Statistics | details |
637 | Education | Since 2000, women have received Masters+ degrees at a higher rate than men |
United States | 2015 | Digest of Education Statistics; Table 104.20.Percentage of persons 25 to 29 years old with selected levels of educational attainment, by race/ethnicity and sex: Selected years, 1920 through 2014 | National Center for Education Statistics | details |
638 | Education | Women are 20% more likely to have a Bachelor's+ degree than men (37.2% vs. 30.9%) |
United States | 2015 | Digest of Education Statistics; Table 104.20.Percentage of persons 25 to 29 years old with selected levels of educational attainment, by race/ethnicity and sex: Selected years, 1920 through 2014 | National Center for Education Statistics | details |
639 | Education | Women are 58% more likely to have a Master's+ degree than men (9.3% vs. 5.9%) |
United States | 2015 | Digest of Education Statistics; Table 104.20.Percentage of persons 25 to 29 years old with selected levels of educational attainment, by race/ethnicity and sex: Selected years, 1920 through 2014 | National Center for Education Statistics | details |
640 | Education | Among blacks, women are 14% more likely to have a Bachelor's+ degree than men (23.8% vs. 20.8%) |
United States | 2012 | Digest of Education Statistics; Table 104.20.Percentage of persons 25 to 29 years old with selected levels of educational attainment, by race/ethnicity and sex: Selected years, 1920 through 2014 | National Center for Education Statistics | details |
641 | Education | Among blacks, women are 163% more likely to have a Master's+ degree than men (7.1% vs. 2.7%) |
United States | 2012 | Digest of Education Statistics; Table 104.20.Percentage of persons 25 to 29 years old with selected levels of educational attainment, by race/ethnicity and sex: Selected years, 1920 through 2014 | National Center for Education Statistics | details |
642 | Education | Among hispanics, women are 7% more likely to have a High School+ degree than men (77.4% vs. 72.4%) |
United States | 2015 | Digest of Education Statistics; Table 104.20.Percentage of persons 25 to 29 years old with selected levels of educational attainment, by race/ethnicity and sex: Selected years, 1920 through 2014 | National Center for Education Statistics | details |
643 | Education | Among hispanics, women are 48% more likely to have a Bachelor's+ degree than men (18.3% vs. 12.4%) |
United States | 2015 | Digest of Education Statistics; Table 104.20.Percentage of persons 25 to 29 years old with selected levels of educational attainment, by race/ethnicity and sex: Selected years, 1920 through 2014 | National Center for Education Statistics | details |
644 | Education | Among hispanics, women are 64% more likely to have a Master's+ degree than men (3.6% vs. 2.2%) |
United States | 2015 | Digest of Education Statistics; Table 104.20.Percentage of persons 25 to 29 years old with selected levels of educational attainment, by race/ethnicity and sex: Selected years, 1920 through 2014 | National Center for Education Statistics | details |
645 | Education | Among asians/pacific islanders, women are 13% more likely to have a Bachelor's+ degree than men (64.3% vs. 56.9%) |
United States | 2015 | Digest of Education Statistics; Table 104.20.Percentage of persons 25 to 29 years old with selected levels of educational attainment, by race/ethnicity and sex: Selected years, 1920 through 2014 | National Center for Education Statistics | details |
646 | Education | Among asians/pacific islanders, women are 24% more likely to have a Master's+ degree than men (19.7% vs. 15.9%) |
United States | 2015 | Digest of Education Statistics; Table 104.20.Percentage of persons 25 to 29 years old with selected levels of educational attainment, by race/ethnicity and sex: Selected years, 1920 through 2014 | National Center for Education Statistics | details |
647 | Genital Mutilation | HIV prevention should not be used as a reason to circumcise |
South Africa | 2011 | Circumcision of Babies for Proposed HIV Prevention | The South African Medical Association | details |
648 | Genital Mutilation | Circumcised men have age-adjusted alexithymia scores 19.9% higher than the intact men |
Canada | 2011 | Alexithymia and Circumcision Trauma: A Preliminary Investigation, p. 184 | Michigan State University | details |
649 | Genital Mutilation | Circumcised men 57% more likely to have high alexithymia score |
Canada | 2011 | Alexithymia and Circumcision Trauma: A Preliminary Investigation, p. 184 | Michigan State University | details |
650 | Genital Mutilation | Circumcised men 4.3x more likely to use an erectile dysfunction drug |
Canada | 2011 | Alexithymia and Circumcision Trauma: A Preliminary Investigation, p. 184 | Michigan State University | details |
651 | Genital Mutilation | There is insufficient evidence to support an interventional effect of male circumcision on HIV acquisition in heterosexual men |
Canada | 2003 | Male Circumcision for Prevention of Heterosexual Acquisition of HIV in Men | details | |
652 | Genital Mutilation | Among men circumcised in adulthood, 48% experienced a decrease in masturbatory pleasure |
South Korea | 2006 | The effect of male circumcision on sexuality | Seoul National University, Chung-Ang University | details |
653 | Genital Mutilation | Among men circumcised in adulthood, 20% had worsened sex lives |
South Korea | 2006 | The effect of male circumcision on sexuality | Seoul National University, Chung-Ang University | details |
654 | Genital Mutilation | Among men circumcised in adulthood, 63% experienced an increase in masturbatory difficulty |
South Korea | 2006 | The effect of male circumcision on sexuality | Seoul National University, Chung-Ang University | details |
679 | Patriarchy | Construals of maleness are framed more stereotypically than are construals of femaleness (i.e. - men are forced to live up to stereotypes more than women are) |
United States | 1990 | Are People's Notions of Maleness More Stereotypically Framed Than Their Notions of Femaleness?, pp. 197-198 | University of Oregon | details |
680 | Patriarchy | Women use social stereotypes for men but not for other women |
United States | 1990 | Are People's Notions of Maleness More Stereotypically Framed Than Their Notions of Femaleness?, p. 209 | University of Oregon | details |
681 | Patriarchy | Men's ideal version of maleness directly reflects women's concept of how society views males |
United States | 1990 | Are People's Notions of Maleness More Stereotypically Framed Than Their Notions of Femaleness?, pp. 197-198, 201 | University of Oregon | details |
682 | Sexuality | Both women and men react more negatively to males' female-typed traits than to females' male-typed traits |
United States | 1990 | Are People's Notions of Maleness More Stereotypically Framed Than Their Notions of Femaleness?, p. 198 | University of Oregon | details |
683 | Sexuality | Both men and women have a more stereotypical view of the "ideal male physique" than that of the "ideal female physique" |
United States | 1990 | Are People's Notions of Maleness More Stereotypically Framed Than Their Notions of Femaleness?, p. 210 | University of Oregon | details |
655 | Patriarchy | Women had the explicit right to vote since 1790 (the implicit right to vote since 1776) in New Jersey |
United States | 1797 | An Act to regulate the Election of Members of the Legislative-Council and the General Assembly, Sheriffs and Coroners, in this State | State of New Jersey | details |
656 | Patriarchy | Universal suffrage was not an issue that the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention was prepared to take a stance on. When it was brought up, nearly half of these 1st wave feminists were against it. |
United States | 1897 | Legal Status of Women | details | |
657 | Patriarchy | The first attempt to give women the vote occurred a year before the first women's group to support universal suffrage - the Toronto Women's Literary League - was formed |
Canada | 1885 | The Canadian Citizenship Debates: the Franchise Act of 1885 | details | |
658 | Suicide | Female suicide rates remained consistent while male suicide rates demonstrate "sharp fluctuations with the peaks coinciding with times of high unemployment" |
Australia | 1993 | Suicide and unemployment in Australia 1907-1990 | University of Sydney | details |
659 | Suicide | Generally, male suicide rates increase with markers of economic adversity, while the opposite pattern is seen in females |
Australia | 2006 | The effect of macroeconomic variables on suicide | University of Melbourne | details |
660 | Suicide | Female suicides are only weakly related or unrelated to economic fluctuations, but male suicides escalate countercyclically during economic downturns. |
Spain | 2005 | Recessions and Mortality in Spain, 1980–1997 | Drexel University | details |
661 | Suicide | Divorced/separated men (but not single/widowed men) are >2x more likely to commit suicide than married men. Among women, there are no statistically significant differentials in the risk of suicide by marital status categories. |
United States | 2000 | Marital Status and Suicide in the National Longitudinal Mortality Study | University of California, Riverside | details |
666 | Divorce | In families undergoing custody disputes in the court, 21% of women made allegations of physical child abuse against their husbands, 23% of sexual child abuse, and 55% of IPV. Only 6%, 6%, and 41% of the accusations, respectively, were substantiated by the courts. |
United States | 2005 | Allegations and substantiations of abuse in custody-disputing families | San Jose State University | details |
667 | Health | In the 11-16 age, boys are 3x more likely than girls to be prescribed ADHD medication (3.6% vs. 1.2%) |
Norway | 2012 | Føreskriving av legemiddel mot AD/HD 2004 – 08 | University of Bergen | details |
670 | Violence, Digital | Women and men are stalked/harassed online in roughly equal amounts (13% vs. 11%) |
United States | 2013 | Internet & American Life Project, July 2013, p. 94 | PEW | details |
671 | Violence, Digital | Women and men have had their reputation damaged by online activity in roughly equal amounts (6% vs. 7%) |
United States | 2013 | Internet & American Life Project, April 2013, p. 97 | PEW | details |
672 | Violence, Digital | Women and men have online activity that later led to possible physical danger in roughly equal amounts (5% vs. 3%) |
United States | 2013 | Internet & American Life Project, April 2013, p. 98 | PEW | details |
673 | Violence, Digital | Women are roughly as likely as men to use words commonly attributed to misogyny (e.g. "slut," "whore") |
United Kingdom | 2014 | Misogyny on Twitter, p. 11, Fig. 6 | Demos | details |
674 | Violence, Digital | Only 18% of instances of words most commonly attributed to misogyny (e.g. - "slut," "whore") were actually attributed to general mysogyny |
United Kingdom | 2014 | Misogyny on Twitter, p. 10 | Demos | details |
675 | Violence, Digital | Men are 19% more likely to experience some kind of online harassment than women (44% vs. 37%) |
United States | 2014 | Online Harassment | PEW | details |
676 | Violence, Digital | Among online harassment victims, women are more likely to be 'sexually harassed' or 'stalked,' men are more likely to be 'harassed for a sustained period' or 'physically threatened' |
United States | 2014 | Online Harassment | PEW | details |
677 | Violence | In workhouses, it was illegal to inflict corporal punishment on adults and female children. The only class of human that could be legally corporally punished was male children. |
United Kingdom | 1855 | The Parish Officer... | details | |
678 | Parenthood | Parents punish boys more (and more quickly) than they do girls |
United States | 1985 | A Cautionary Note: Parents' Socialization of Boys and Girls, p. 473 | University of Oregon | details |
684 | Mental Health | Men are 2x more likely to binge drink in a given time period than women |
United States | 2014 | Excessive Alcohol Use and Risks to Men's Health | Department of Health & Human Services | details |
685 | Mental Health | Men binge drink 4.6x more often than women |
United States | 2014 | Excessive Alcohol Use and Risks to Men's Health | Department of Health & Human Services | details |
686 | Mental Health | Men are >2x more likely meet criteria for alcohol dependence at some point in their lives (17% vs. 8%) |
United States | 2014 | Excessive Alcohol Use and Risks to Men's Health | Department of Health & Human Services | details |
687 | Mortality | Men consistently have higher rates of alcohol-related deaths and hospitalizations than women |
United States | 2014 | Excessive Alcohol Use and Risks to Men's Health | Department of Health & Human Services | details |
688 | Suicide | 74% of suicides who showed showed clear post-mortem evidence of long-term alcohol misuse were men |
Finland | 2005 | Chronic alcohol problems among suicide attempters--post-mortem findings of a 14-year follow-up. | National Public Health Institute | details |
689 | Mental Health | Men are 80% more likely to have used elicit drugs in the past month (8.1% vs. 4.5%) |
United States | 1999 | Gender Differences in Prevalence of Drug Abuse Traced to Opportunities to Use | National Institute on Drug Abuse | details |
690 | Mortality | Men are >3x as likely to be homicide victims than women (77% vs. 23%) |
United States | 2010 | Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980-2008, p. 3 | Department of Justice | details |
691 | Violence | A man is >3x as likely to kill another man than to kill a woman (67.8% vs. 21.0% of all homicides) |
United States | 2010 | Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980-2008, p. 9 | Department of Justice | details |
692 | Violence | A woman is >4x as likely to kill a man than to kill another woman (9.0% vs. 2.2% of all homicides) |
United States | 2010 | Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980-2008, p. 9 | Department of Justice | details |
693 | Violence | A man is 4.7x as likely to be killed by a gun than is a woman (82.6 vs. 17.4%) |
United States | 2010 | Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980-2008, p. 10 | Department of Justice | details |
694 | Violence | A man is 81% more likely to be the victim in a multiple-victim homicide (e.g. - mass shooting) than a woman (64.4% vs. 35.6%) |
United States | 2010 | Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980-2008, p. 10 | Department of Justice | details |
695 | Violence | A man is 4x as likely to be the victim in a workplace homicide than a woman (79.1% vs. 20.9%) |
United States | 2010 | Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980-2008, p. 10 | Department of Justice | details |
696 | Violence | A man is >2x as likely to be the victim of homicide by a stranger than a woman (25.5% vs. 11.9%) |
United States | 2010 | Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980-2008, p. 10 | Department of Justice | details |
697 | Violence | A man is >2x as likely to be the victim of homicide by a stranger than a woman (25.5% vs. 11.9%) |
United States | 2010 | Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980-2008, p. 10 | Department of Justice | details |
698 | Violence | A man is 2x as likely to be the victim of homicide by a non-famly memeber than a woman (81,9% vs. 41.8%) |
United States | 2010 | Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980-2008, p. 10 | Department of Justice | details |
699 | Violence | Fathers are significantly more likely to be killed by their children than are mothers |
United States | 2010 | Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980-2008, p. 22 | Department of Justice | details |
700 | Violence | Brothers are significantly more likely to be killed by a sibling than are sisters |
United States | 2010 | Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980-2008, p. 22 | Department of Justice | details |
701 | Marriage | Women are nearly 3x as likely to cheat on a partner than men (25% vs. 9%) |
United Kingdom | 2011 | Women are now more likely to cheat than men, a survey reveals | Coffee & Company | details |
702 | Marriage | Women are ~2x as likely to try to sleep with a married/committed man than vice versa |
United Kingdom | 2011 | Women are now more likely to cheat than men, a survey reveals | Coffee & Company | details |
703 | Marriage | Women are 20% less likely than men to forgive a partner who cheats (12% vs. 15%) |
United Kingdom | 2011 | Women are now more likely to cheat than men, a survey reveals | Coffee & Company | details |
704 | Dimorphism | Women cry 2-10 times more frequently than men (2.5-5.0 times/month vs. 0.5-1.5 times/month) |
international | 2004 | Emotional Expression and Health: Advances in Theory, Assessment, and Critical Applications | details | |
705 | Dimorphism | Gender differences in crying proneness are larger in wealthier, more democratic, and feminine countries (i.e. - freer & less "patriarchal" countries) |
international | 2011 | Culture and Crying: Prevalences and Gender Differences | Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, Tilburg University, North-West University | details |
706 | Dimorphism | Testosterone injections in various species of animal lowers incidence of crying |
international | 2001 | Adult Crying: a Biophycosocial Approach, p. 100 | details | |
707 | Economic Power | Women will control 2/3 of the consumer wealth in the U.S. over the next decade |
United States | 2013 | U.S. Women Control the Purse Strings | Fleishman-Hillard Inc. | details |
708 | Economic Power | Women will be the beneficiaries of the largest transference of wealth in U.S. history |
United States | 2013 | U.S. Women Control the Purse Strings | Fleishman-Hillard Inc. | details |
709 | Economic Power | The only sales channel in which men hold more spending power than women is in Gas/Convenience Store purchases (53% vs. 47%) |
United States | 2013 | U.S. Women Control the Purse Strings | Fleishman-Hillard Inc. | details |
710 | Education | Since the 1990s, the persistence rate between Bachelor's Degrees and PhDs in pSTEM has had no gender difference. This is true across all major groups of STEM fields (i.e., engineering, life science, mathematics, and computer science, social science, and physical science). |
United States | 2015 | The bachelor’s to Ph.D. STEM pipeline no longer leaks more women than men: a 30-year analysis, p. | Northwestern University, Duke University | details |
711 | Dimorphism | There is a large effect size (d=0.93) on the Things-People dimension, with men prefering to work with things and women prefering to work with people |
United States | 2009 | Men and things, women and people: a meta-analysis of sex differences in interests. | University of Illinois at Urbana | details |
712 | Dimorphism | Sex differences in most psychological (and in many physical) traits are larger in cultures with more egalitarian sex role socialization and greater sociopolitical gender equity |
international | 2014 | The evolution of sexuality | Bradley University | details |
713 | Mental Health | Men are alexithymic 70% more often than women (17% vs. 10% of population) |
Finland | 1999 | Prevalence of alexithymia and its association with sociodemographic variables in the general population of Finland | details | |
714 | Parenthood | Women are the majority of perpetrators of filicide (52% vs. 48%) |
Australia | 2015 | Domestic/family homicide in Australia | Institute of Criminology | details |
715 | Marriage | Women are the offender in 23% of IP homicides |
Australia | 2015 | Domestic/family homicide in Australia | Institute of Criminology | details |
716 | Dimorphism | Men and women deal with stress differently ("fight or flight" vs. "tend and befriend") |
2005 | Evolutionary and Biochemical Explanations for a Unique Female Stress Response: Tend-and-Befriend | Rochester Institute of Technology | details | |
717 | Divorce | In-kind child support - non-cash goods - constitutes 1/4 of total child support, yet is rarely considered in reports on "deadbeat dads" |
United States | 2015 | How Much In-Kind Support Do Low-Income Nonresident Fathers Provide? A Mixed-Method Analysis | University of California, Johns Hopkins University | details |
718 | Divorce | Children whose fathers lack stable employment (i.e. - who are unable to make child support payments) or are Black receive a greater proportion of their total support in kind |
United States | 2015 | How Much In-Kind Support Do Low-Income Nonresident Fathers Provide? A Mixed-Method Analysis | University of California, Johns Hopkins University | details |
719 | Education | There are 28% more females than males at university (56.2% vs. 43.8%), including graduate studies, first degree studies, and part- time undergraduate studies |
United Kingdom | 2013 | Student Introduction 2012/13 | Higher Education Statistics Agency | details |
721 | Education | Women are 10.7% more likely to receive Upper Second class honors than men (51.7% vs. 46.7%) and just as likely to receive First class honors as men (18.3% vs. 18.5%) |
United Kingdom | 2013 | Student Introduction 2012/13 | Higher Education Statistics Agency | details |
722 | Education | Men are more likely than women to receive Lower Second (27.6% vs. 24.6%) and Third/Pass (7.2% vs. 5.4%) honors |
United Kingdom | 2013 | Student Introduction 2012/13 | Higher Education Statistics Agency | details |
723 | Workplace | Under the age of 30, women make up the significant majority of doctors in the register (61% vs. 39%) |
United Kingdom | 2013 | The state of medical education and practice in the UK, pp. 18, 22 | General Medical Counsel | details |
724 | Workplace | From the ages of 30-50, there are roughly an equal number of female and male doctors in the register (46% vs. 54%) |
United Kingdom | 2013 | The state of medical education and practice in the UK, pp. 18, 22 | General Medical Counsel | details |
725 | Income | Female specialist doctors 8x more likely to work part-time than their male counterparts (48% vs. 6%) |
United Kingdom | 2013 | The state of medical education and practice in the UK, p. 33 | General Medical Counsel | details |
726 | Violence | Young men are more likely to be victims of violence than any other group |
United Kingdom | 2012 | Focus on: Violent Crime and Sexual Offences, 2011/12, p. 1 | Office for National Statistics | details |
727 | Violence | 68% of homicide victims are male |
United Kingdom | 2012 | Focus on: Violent Crime and Sexual Offences, 2011/12, p. 1 | Office for National Statistics | details |
729 | Violence | 62% of victims of violence are male |
United Kingdom | 2012 | Focus on: Violent Crime and Sexual Offences, 2011/12, p. 6 | Office for National Statistics | details |
730 | Violence | Men over 2x as likely as women to be killed by someone they don't know (46% vs. 22% of homicides) |
United Kingdom | 2012 | Focus on: Violent Crime and Sexual Offences, 2011/12, p. 23 | Office for National Statistics | details |
731 | Violence | 69% of homicide victims are male |
United Kingdom | 2011 | Focus on: Violent Crime and Sexual Offences, 2011/12, p. 26 | Office for National Statistics | details |
732 | Violence | 68% of homicide victims are male |
United Kingdom | 2010 | Focus on: Violent Crime and Sexual Offences, 2011/12, p. 26 | Office for National Statistics | details |
733 | Violence | Male children (ages 5-14) are killed disproportionately high when compared to female children |
United Kingdom | 2012 | Focus on: Violent Crime and Sexual Offences, 2011/12, p. 31 | Office for National Statistics | details |
734 | Legal System | Females indicted for homicide are 33% more likely to be acquitted or have their proceedings discontinued than male suspects (16% vs. 12%) |
United Kingdom | 2012 | Focus on: Violent Crime and Sexual Offences, 2011/12, p. 39 | Office for National Statistics | details |
735 | Violence | Men are 37% of lifetime victims of domestic abuse between the ages of 16-59 (~2.9MM of ~7.9MM victims) |
United Kingdom | 2012 | Focus on: Violent Crime and Sexual Offences, 2011/12, pp. 62, 65 | Office for National Statistics | details |
736 | Violence | In the past 12 months, 40% of the victims of IPV were men |
United Kingdom | 2012 | Focus on: Violent Crime and Sexual Offences, 2011/12, pp. 62, 66 | Office for National Statistics | details |
737 | Violence, Sexual | Men are 33% more likely to experience serious sexual violence by an acquaintance than women are (48% vs. 36% of incidences) |
United Kingdom | 2012 | Focus on: Violent Crime and Sexual Offences, 2011/12, pp. 62, 66 | Office for National Statistics | details |
738 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Among teenage IPV victims, boys are less likely to seek help than girls from any source (including friends, family, parents, and other adults) |
United Kingdom | 2009 | Partner exploitation and violence in teenage intimate relationships, p. 48 | NSPCC | details |
739 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Among teenage IPV victims, boys are 49% more likely than girls to never tell anyone about the incident(s) (64% vs. 43% of victims) |
United Kingdom | 2009 | Partner exploitation and violence in teenage intimate relationships, p. 49 | NSPCC | details |
740 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Among teenage IPV victims, the majority of boys never tell anyone about the incident(s). This is not true of girls. |
United Kingdom | 2009 | Partner exploitation and violence in teenage intimate relationships, p. 49 | NSPCC | details |
741 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Among teenage IPV victims, same-sex couples are more than 2x as likely to experience some form of physical violence than heterosexual couples (44% vs. 20%) |
United Kingdom | 2009 | Partner exploitation and violence in teenage intimate relationships, p.54 | NSPCC | details |
742 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Among teenage IPV victims, same-sex couples are more than 3x as likely to experience severe physical violence than heterosexual couples (23% vs. 7%) |
United Kingdom | 2009 | Partner exploitation and violence in teenage intimate relationships, p.54 | NSPCC | details |
743 | Violence, Intimate Partner | 1 in 5 teenage boys reported some sort of IPV victimhood, as did 1 in 4 teenage girls (18% vs. 25%) |
United Kingdom | 2009 | Partner exploitation and violence in teenage intimate relationships, p.54 | NSPCC | details |
744 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Among teenage victims of emotional IPV, boys are 50% more likely than girls to never tell anyone about the incident(s) (60% vs. 40% of victims) |
United Kingdom | 2009 | Partner exploitation and violence in teenage intimate relationships, p. 61 | NSPCC | details |
745 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Among teenage victims of emotional IPV, the majority of boys never tell anyone about the incident(s). This is not true of girls. |
United Kingdom | 2009 | Partner exploitation and violence in teenage intimate relationships, p. 61 | NSPCC | details |
746 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Among teenage victims of emotional IPV, boys are less likely to seek help than girls from any source (including friends, family, parents, and other adults) |
United Kingdom | 2009 | Partner exploitation and violence in teenage intimate relationships, p. 61 | NSPCC | details |
747 | Violence, Intimate Partner | As boys grow older, their portion of IPV victimhood population increases. |
United Kingdom | 2009 | Partner exploitation and violence in teenage intimate relationships, p. 62 | NSPCC | details |
748 | Violence, Intimate Partner | The highest incidence rate for teenage emotional IPV victimhood, of any age range or gender, is in boys ages 16+ (68% incidence rate) |
United Kingdom | 2009 | Partner exploitation and violence in teenage intimate relationships, p. 62 | NSPCC | details |
749 | Violence, Intimate Partner | The majority of incidences of habitual pressured and/or forced sexual contact and/or sexual intercourse was experienced by boys. Girls are more likely to have these incidents as isolated experiences. |
United Kingdom | 2009 | Partner exploitation and violence in teenage intimate relationships, pp. 66-67 | NSPCC | details |
750 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Among teenage victims of sexual IPV, same-sex couples are 78% more likely to experience some form of sexual victimization than heterosexual couples (41% vs. 23%) |
United Kingdom | 2009 | Partner exploitation and violence in teenage intimate relationships, p. 72 | NSPCC | details |
751 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Among teenage victims of sexual IPV, same-sex couples are 78% more likely to experience some form of sexual victimization than heterosexual couples (41% vs. 23%) |
United Kingdom | 2009 | Partner exploitation and violence in teenage intimate relationships, p. 72 | NSPCC | details |
752 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Teenage girls are >3x as likely to use some form physical violence against their partner than are boys (25% vs. 8%) |
United Kingdom | 2009 | Partner exploitation and violence in teenage intimate relationships, p. 74 | NSPCC | details |
753 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Teenage girls are 2.5x as likely to use extreme physical violence against their partner than are boys (5% vs. 2%) |
United Kingdom | 2009 | Partner exploitation and violence in teenage intimate relationships, p. 74 | NSPCC | details |
754 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Teenage girls are >2x as likely to use physical force against their partner "often" or "all the time" than are boys |
United Kingdom | 2009 | Partner exploitation and violence in teenage intimate relationships, p. 74, Table 10 | NSPCC | details |
755 | Violence, Intimate Partner | When teenage physical IPV occurs, boys are much more likely than girls to perpetrate as a result of "messing around" (56% vs. 43%), while girls are much more likely than boys to perpetrate for "negative reasons" (read - control, coercion, force, etc.) (45% vs. 33%) |
United Kingdom | 2009 | Partner exploitation and violence in teenage intimate relationships, p. 75 | NSPCC | details |
756 | Violence, Intimate Partner | 30% of IPV admitted to by teenage boys was due to self-defence |
United Kingdom | 2009 | Partner exploitation and violence in teenage intimate relationships, pp. 75-76 | NSPCC | details |
757 | Violence, Intimate Partner | When teenage emotional IPV occurs, boys are much more likely than girls to perpetrate as a result of "messing around" (45% vs. 39%), while girls are much more likely than boys to perpetrate for "negative reasons" (read - control, coercion, force, etc.) (45% vs. 38%) |
United Kingdom | 2009 | Partner exploitation and violence in teenage intimate relationships, p. 79 | NSPCC | details |
758 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Emotional IPV - the most prevalent form of partner violence young people reported using - is 18% more likely to be used by girls than boys (59% vs. 50% incidence rate) |
United Kingdom | 2009 | Partner exploitation and violence in teenage intimate relationships, p. 78 | NSPCC | details |
759 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Teenage girls are >2x as likely than boys to shouting and/or screaming at a partner (31% vs. 14%) |
United Kingdom | 2009 | Partner exploitation and violence in teenage intimate relationships, p. 78 | NSPCC | details |
760 | Violence, Digital | Men get threatened to have their intimate photos exposed online more than women (12% vs. 8%) |
United States | 2013 | Love, Relationships, and Technology | McAfee | details |
761 | Violence, Digital | Threats to men to have their intimate photos exposed online are carried out more often than those to women (63% vs. 50%) |
United States | 2013 | Love, Relationships, and Technology | McAfee | details |
762 | Mental Health | Boys are 4.5x as likely to be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder than girls (1 in 42 vs. 1 in 189) |
United States | 2010 | Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder Among Children Aged 8 Years, p. 1 | Department of Health and Human Services | details |
763 | Workplace | Nearly 1/3 (29%; 191) of all MPs are women |
United Kingdom | 2015 | Women in Parliament and Government, pp. 3-4, 6 | The House of Commons Library | details |
764 | Workplace | Women make up 26% of General Election candidates |
United Kingdom | 2015 | Women in Parliament and Government, pp. 3, 7 | The House of Commons Library | details |
765 | Workplace | Women make up 1/3 (32%; 7/22) of Cabinet Posts |
United Kingdom | 2015 | Women in Parliament and Government, pp. 3, 10 | The House of Commons Library | details |
766 | Workplace | Women make up 38% (3 vs. 8) of Ministers who attend Cabinet |
United Kingdom | 2015 | Women in Parliament and Government, p. 3 | The House of Commons Library | details |
767 | Workplace | Women make up 34% of Labour's candidates and 43% of its MPs |
United Kingdom | 2015 | Women in Parliament and Government, pp. 3, 7 | The House of Commons Library | details |
768 | Workplace | Women make up 26% of Labour's candidates and 21% of its MPs |
United Kingdom | 2015 | Women in Parliament and Government, pp. 3, 7 | The House of Commons Library | details |
668 | Violence, Digital | Male celebrities receive Twitter abuse at 3.8x the rate as female celebrities (5.19% vs. 1.37% of tweets) |
United Kingdom | 2014 | Demos: Male celebrities receive more abuse on Twitter than women | Demos | details |
669 | Violence, Digital | Male celebrities are more likely to be trolled/abused by men than female celebrities |
United Kingdom | 2014 | Demos: Male celebrities receive more abuse on Twitter than women | Demos | details |
769 | Feminist Activism | Rates of rape are inversely correlated with legalization of prostitution |
international | 2004 | Prostitution and Sex Crimes, p. 1 | The Independent Institute | details |
770 | Feminist Activism | Rate of forcible rape decreased by 31% when indoor prostitution was legalized |
United States | 2014 | Decriminalizing Indoor Prostitution: Implications for Sexual Violence and Public Health | Baylor University, UCLA | details |
771 | Patriarchy | Only 19% agree that women should return to their traditional roles while 75% disagree |
United States | 2009 | The Harried Life of the Working Mother | PEW Research Center | details |
772 | Workplace | A strong majority of all working mothers say they would prefer to work part time rather than preferring to work full time (62% vs. 37%) |
United States | 2009 | The Harried Life of the Working Mother | PEW Research Center | details |
773 | Workplace | A strong majority of all working mothers say they would prefer to work part time/not at all rather than preferring to work full time (60%+19% vs. 21%) |
United States | 2007 | Fewer Mothers Prefer Full-time Work | PEW Research Center | details |
774 | Workplace | A strong majority of all working mothers say they would prefer to work part time/not at all rather than preferring to work full time (48%+20% vs. 32%) |
United States | 1997 | Fewer Mothers Prefer Full-time Work | PEW Research Center | details |
775 | Media | In Top 100 grossing films of the year, female characters were more likely to have pro-social goals (e.g. - supporting and helping others) while male characters were more likely than females to have anti-social goals (e.g. - committing crimes and engaging in physical altercations) |
United States | 2014 | It’s a Man’s (Celluloid) World: On-Screen Representations of Female Characters in the Top 100 Films of 2014, pp. 1, 3 | San Diego State University | details |
776 | Workplace | 47% of working mothers agree that their overall happiness would increase if they weren’t working. On the other hand, only 19% of full-time mothers admit their overall happiness would increase if they worked outside the home. |
United States | 2012 | ForbesWoman And TheBump.Com 'Parenthood And Economy 2012' Survey Results | Forbes & theBump.com | details |
777 | Workplace | More than 1/3 of working mothers (36%) resent their partners for not earning enough money for them to stay home with the baby/kids |
United States | 2012 | ForbesWoman And TheBump.Com 'Parenthood And Economy 2012' Survey Results | Forbes & theBump.com | details |
778 | Violence, Sexual | 81% of victims of underage sexual assault by Catholic clergy were male; over 40% of all victims were males between the ages of 11 and 14 |
international | 2002 | The Nature and Scope of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests and Deacons in the United States 1950-2002, p. 3 | the City University of New York | details |
779 | Violence, Sexual | 26% of inmates (ages 18-25) experienced sexual assault in custody |
Australia | 1998 | Fear of Favour: Sexual Assault of Young Prisoners, p. 66 | details | |
780 | Violence, Sexual | Out of 4076 NGOs around the world addressing rape during wartime and other forms of political sexual violence, only 3% mention the experience of male victims in their informational materials (typically as a passing reference) |
international | 2002 | Male-on-Male Sexual Violence in Wartime: Human Rights' Last Taboo? | Syracuse University, Center for Research and Teaching in Economics | details |
781 | Violence, Sexual | There are well over one hundred uses of the term “violence against women”—defined to include sexual violence—in U.N. resolutions, treaties, general comments, and consensus documents. No human rights instruments explicitly address sexual violence against men. |
international | 2008 | Male Rape and Human Rights, p. 619 | UCLA School of Law | details |
782 | Patriarchy | Only 5 of the first 13 state constitutions explicitly restricted the vote to men |
United States | 2007 | Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic, p. 31 | George Mason University | details |
783 | Patriarchy | Propertied women explicitly received suffrage as early as 1790 (in New Jersey) |
United States | 1797 | Rethinking Women's Suffrage in New Jersey, 1776-1807, pp. 1020-1021 | Rutgers University | details |
784 | Sexuality | Women rate sexually permissive women more negatively than nonpermissive women. This is regardless of whether or not the rater is herself permissive or nonpermissive. |
United States | 2014 | Birds of a feather? Not when it comes to sexual permissiveness, pp. 101, 103-104, 108 | Cornell University | details |
785 | Sexuality | There is no double-standard between women and men (measured by "friendship desirability") when it comes to sexual permissiveness |
United States | 2014 | Birds of a feather? Not when it comes to sexual permissiveness, p. 105 | Cornell University | details |
786 | Violence, Digital | 48% of online harassment aggressors (amongst kids ages 10-15) are female |
United States | 2010 | Online Harassment in Context: Trends From Three Youth Internet Safety Surveys (2000, 2005, 2010), p. 62 | University of New Hampshire | details |
787 | Violence, Digital | 55% of online harassment aggressors at "distressing" levels (amongst kids ages 10-15) are female |
United States | 2010 | Online Harassment in Context: Trends From Three Youth Internet Safety Surveys (2000, 2005, 2010), pp. 63-64 | University of New Hampshire | details |
788 | Suicide | 77% of suicides are male |
United States | 2014 | Fatal Injury Reports, National and Regional, 1999-2014 | Center for Disease Control | details |
720 | Education | Attractive female students receive higher grades (one standard deviation) than unattractive female students. Attractive male students don't receive higher grades. |
United States | 2016 | Student Appearance and Academic Performance, pp. 1-2 | Metropolitan State University of Denver | details |
789 | Education | Boys fare worse than their sisters, both behaviorally and educationally, in low socioeconomic-status (SES) households. They have a higher incidence of truancy and behavioral problems throughout elementary and middle school, exhibit higher rates of behavioral and cognitive disability, perform worse on standardized tests, are less likely to graduate high school, and are more likely to commit serious crimes as juveniles. |
United States | 2015 | Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes, pp. 33-34 | MIT, NBER, Northwestern University, University of Florida | details |
790 | Education | Boys are 56% more likely to be low academic achievers than girls (14% vs. 9% did not attain the PISA baseline level of proficiency in any of the three core subjects measured in PISA: reading, mathematics and science) |
international | 2015 | The ABC of Gender Equality in Education: Aptitude, Behaviour, Confidence, pp. 13, 25-26, 36 | OECD | details |
791 | Education | 60% of low academic achievers are boys |
international | 2015 | The ABC of Gender Equality in Education: Aptitude, Behaviour, Confidence, pp. 13, 25-26 | OECD | details |
792 | Education | The proportions of young women who graduated from upper secondary pre-vocational and vocational programs (traditionally male-dominated) in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands and Spain are at least 5 percentage points larger than the proportions of men who did. |
international | 2015 | The ABC of Gender Equality in Education: Aptitude, Behaviour, Confidence, p. 24 | OECD | details |
793 | Education | The gap between boys and girls in science is less than 1/3 that of the gap between boys and girls in reading (11 points vs. 38 points) |
international | 2015 | The ABC of Gender Equality in Education: Aptitude, Behaviour, Confidence, p. 24 | OECD | details |
794 | Education | Girls hold more ambitious educational and occupational expectations than boys |
international | 2015 | The ABC of Gender Equality in Education: Aptitude, Behaviour, Confidence, pp. 24, 32 | OECD | details |
795 | Education | Boys are "far more likely" to expect that their formal education will end after earning an upper secondary degree, even when they do just as well as girls on the objective assessments |
international | 2015 | The ABC of Gender Equality in Education: Aptitude, Behaviour, Confidence, p. 24 | OECD | details |
796 | Education | Despite students having wide gaps in assessments of reading in favor of girls, by their late 20s there are no significant gender differences in literacy proficiency - young men are able to learn, they're just not being taught properly |
international | 2015 | The ABC of Gender Equality in Education: Aptitude, Behaviour, Confidence, pp. 27, 121, 160 | OECD | details |
797 | Workplace | Despite expectations set as teenagers, women and men are equally likely to become managers/professionals in young adulthood (23% vs. 22%; 25-34 years old) |
international | 2015 | The ABC of Gender Equality in Education: Aptitude, Behaviour, Confidence, pp. 32, 116 | OECD | details |
798 | Education | Boys are more likely than girls to express negative attitudes towards school and learning: 8 percentage points (2x) more likely to report that school is a waste of time, 5 percentage points more likely to agree that school has done little to prepare them for adult life when they leave school, 5 percentage points less likely to agree that trying hard at school is important, and 3 percentage points less likely to report that they enjoy receiving good marks |
international | 2015 | The ABC of Gender Equality in Education: Aptitude, Behaviour, Confidence, pp. 36, 52 | OECD | details |
799 | Education | Among students who perform equally well in objective assessments (reading, mathematics and science), boys were more likely than girls to have repeated at least one grade before the age of 15 and to report that they had received lower marks in both language-of-instruction classes and mathematics |
international | 2015 | The ABC of Gender Equality in Education: Aptitude, Behaviour, Confidence, pp. 55-56 | OECD | details |
800 | Education | In the large majority of countries, students, particularly boys, reported that any skills that could help them make a smooth transition from compulsory schooling to a job or higher education were acquired outside of school |
international | 2015 | The ABC of Gender Equality in Education: Aptitude, Behaviour, Confidence, p. 103 | OECD | details |
801 | Education | Girls tend to see themselves in the future as working in careers that are more highly valued by society than those cited by boys. This is reflected in reality. |
international | 2015 | The ABC of Gender Equality in Education: Aptitude, Behaviour, Confidence, p. 118 | OECD | details |
802 | Incarceration | The rate of juvenile placement in residential correction facilities is about 6x higher for males than females (280 vs. 46 per 100k) |
United States | 2011 | The Condition of Education 2015, p. 15 | Department of Education | details |
803 | Incarceration | The rate of young adult imprisonment in state facilities is about 16x higher for males than females (1,060 vs. 65 per 100k; ages 18-24) |
United States | 2011 | The Condition of Education 2015, p. 15 | Department of Education | details |
805 | Education | Young men (ages 18-24) are 27% more likely than young women to have not completed high school (19% vs. 15%) |
United States | 2014 | The Condition of Education 2015, p. 16 | Department of Education | details |
806 | Education | Young women are 13% more likely to be enrolled in college than young men (43% vs. 37%) |
United States | 2013 | The Condition of Education 2015, p. 18 | Department of Education | details |
807 | Education | A higher percentage of females than males have completed a bachelor's degree or higher (37% vs. 31%) |
United States | 2013 | The Condition of Education 2015, pp. 20, 32 | Department of Education | details |
808 | Education | Female students make up 56% of undergraduate enrollment in universities |
United States | 2013 | The Condition of Education 2015, p. 92 | Department of Education | details |
809 | Education | Between 2013 and 2024, female enrollment is projected to increase by 15% and male enrollment is projected to increase by 9%, further widening the post-secondary enrollment gap |
United States | 2013 | The Condition of Education 2015, p. 92 | Department of Education | details |
810 | Education | A higher percentage of females than males have completed a master's degree or higher (9% vs. 6%) |
United States | 2013 | The Condition of Education 2015, p. 32 | Department of Education | details |
811 | Education | From 4th grade to 8th grade, the gender reading gap grows by 43% (7 vs. 10 points). This gap remains the same through the end of secondary education |
United States | 2013 | The Condition of Education 2015, pp. 135-136 | Department of Education | details |
812 | Education | The gender math score gap is virtually non-existant. At 4th and 8th grades, boys only scored 1 point higher (on a 500 point scale). By 12th grade, this has grown to a whopping 3 point gap. |
United States | 2013 | The Condition of Education 2015, pp. 143-144 | Department of Education | details |
813 | Education | Female students are 11% more likely to graduate from a full-time, undergraduate program at a 4-year degree-granting institution within 6 years than male students are (62% vs. 56%) |
United States | 2013 | The Condition of Education 2015, p. 235 | Department of Education | details |
814 | Patriarchy | Since 1900, there was only a ~50 year period in which men and women didn't graduate college at high rates of gender parity |
United States | 2006 | The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap, pp. 134-137 | details | |
815 | Education | Main reason for only period in past century with elevated male:female ratio in higher education was during Great Depression & due to post WWII GI bill |
United States | 2006 | The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap, pp. 134-135 | details | |
816 | Education | Women have been graduating college at higher rates than men since the early 1980s |
United States | 2006 | The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap, pp. 134-135 | details | |
817 | Education | Women have been graduating college with bachelor's degrees at higher rates than men since the early 1990s |
United States | 2006 | The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap, pp. 136 | details | |
818 | Education | By 2002, of the 17 OECD countries with consistent tertiary schooling enrollment data for 1985 and 2002, only Turkey and Switzerland had a ratio of male-to-female higher-education enrollment that was greater than one (but both of them had a declining gender gap from 1985 to 2002) |
international | 2006 | The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap, p. 138 | details | |
819 | Education | Whereas girls always achieved higher class-rank than boys, aptitude and achievement tests show a different pattern: junior-year IQ scores display almost identical distributions by sex (years 1972-1992) |
United States | 2006 | The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap, p. 140 | details | |
820 | Education | By 1992, each percentile rank point (high school stack ranking) for a girl was worth almost 1.6 times that for a boy. |
United States | 2006 | The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap, p. 144 | details | |
821 | Education | Gender parity in college graduation was reached in the top quartile of socioeconomic status by 1972 |
United States | 2006 | The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap, p. 147 | details | |
822 | Income | According to most estimates, the college (log or percentage) wage premium is actually higher for women than men, and it has been higher for some time |
United States | 2006 | The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap, p. 153 | details | |
823 | Parenthood | Children whose fathers spent more time with them had a higher IQ and were more socially mobile than those who had received little attention |
United Kingdom | 2008 | Why do some dads get more involved than others? Evidence from a large British cohort | Newcastle University | details |
824 | Education | Of 5 year-olds entering the education system at a "good [minimum] level of development," there is a 15.7 percentage-point gap between boys and girls (58.6% vs. 72.6%) |
United Kingdom | 2015 | Early years foundation stage profile results in England, 2015, pp. 4-5 | Department for Education | details |
825 | Education | The score gap between boys and girls for reading/english grows as students age (ages 7-14), indicating not an issue of delayed male development but a structural inequity |
United Kingdom | 2012 | National Literacy Trust | details | |
826 | Parenthood | By 5th grade, parents have a 10 percentage point gap in favor of their daughters when it comes to expectations that their children will eventually attend college |
United States | 2011 | The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior, p. 13 | National Bureau of Economic Research | details |
827 | Parenthood | Parents of all family compositions are (1) significantly more likely to read to their girls, (2) more likely to surround girls with books, (3) more likely to take their girls to a concert and to sign them up for some extra-curricular activity, and (4) less likely to report being too busy to play with their girls rather than boys. |
United States | 2011 | The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior, pp. 12-22 | National Bureau of Economic Research | details |
828 | Education | Nearly one out of four boys (24%) experienced at least one school suspension in eighth grade, while only one out of ten girls did (12.7%) |
United States | 2006 | The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior, pp. 9-10 | National Bureau of Economic Research | details |
829 | Education | Amongst children of low socioeconomic status (SES) homes, the behavior gap amongst girls remains stable from kindergarten through 8th grade while the gap worsens for boys across the same time period |
United States | 2011 | The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior, p. 16 | National Bureau of Economic Research | details |
830 | Parenthood | By 5th grade, girls score about half a standard deviation below boys in teacher-reported externalizing problems and 0.45 of a standard deviation above boys in teacher-reported self-control. |
United States | 2011 | The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior, p. 5 | National Bureau of Economic Research | details |
831 | Parenthood | Single mothers are (1) more emotionally distant from their sons, (2) are 13 percentage points more likely to have reported spanking their sons, and (3) spend significantly less time engaging in childcare related activities with their sons (as compared to their daughters) |
United States | 2011 | The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior, pp. 6, 22-24, 29 | National Bureau of Economic Research | details |
832 | Education | There is a 25 percentage point gender gap in school suspension by 8th grade among boys and girls raised by single mothers. In other words, poverty and low SES affect boys more severely than girls. |
United States | 2011 | The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior, p. 6 | National Bureau of Economic Research | details |
833 | Rape Culture | While 88% of the population thinks sexual assault on college campuses is a problem, only 37% of current/recently-graduated students think it is a problem |
United States | 2015 | Survey of College Students on Sexual Assault, p. 3 | Washington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation | details |
834 | Rape Culture | Current/recently graduated college students think 'Alcohol & Drug Abuse' is a significantly greater problem than 'Sexual Assault' (56% vs. 37%) |
United States | 2015 | Survey of College Students on Sexual Assault, p. 4 | Washington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation | details |
835 | Rape Culture | Among current/recently graduated college students, men are more likely than women to be aware of the university's sexual assault prevention program |
United States | 2015 | Survey of College Students on Sexual Assault, p. 6 | Washington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation | details |
836 | Rape Culture | Among current/recently graduated college students, men are have received more training than women in what to do in a situation that might lead to sexual assault |
United States | 2015 | Survey of College Students on Sexual Assault, p. 7 | Washington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation | details |
837 | Rape Culture | Among current/recently graduated college students, men are more likely than women to (1) put the responsibility solely on the man's shoulders and (2) exhonerate the woman for her choices in encounters that lead to sexual assault. |
United States | 2015 | Survey of College Students on Sexual Assault, p. 10 | Washington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation | details |
838 | Rape Culture | Among current/recently graduated college students, women are far are more likely to think that letting someone guilty of sexual assault go is a greater injustice than an innocent person being found guilty of sexual assault (36% vs. 56%) |
United States | 2015 | Survey of College Students on Sexual Assault, p. 13 | Washington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation | details |
839 | Rape Culture | Among current/recently graduated college students, 52% of women thinking that removing ones own clothing does NOT establish consent for more sexual activity |
United States | 2015 | Survey of College Students on Sexual Assault, p. 13 | Washington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation | details |
849 | Rape Culture | Among current/recently graduated college students, 58% of women thinking that an individual actively getting a condom is NOT establishing consent for more sexual activity |
United States | 2015 | Survey of College Students on Sexual Assault, p. 13 | Washington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation | details |
840 | Rape Culture | Among current/recently graduated college students, 44% of women thinking that an individual nodding in agreement does NOT establish consent for more sexual activity |
United States | 2015 | Survey of College Students on Sexual Assault, p. 14 | Washington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation | details |
841 | False Rape | Among those who've experienced one night stands, men are far more likely than women to have overall positive feelings about the experience (80% vs. 54%) |
United States | 2008 | The Morning after the Night Before: Affective Reactions to One-Night Stands among Mated and Unmated Women and Men | Durham University | details |
842 | Workplace | The unemployment rate for men is 38% higher than for that of women (9.1% vs. 6.6%) |
United States | 2009 | Economic News Release, February 2009—Table A-1, Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age | Bureau of Labor Statistics | details |
843 | Parenthood | Men are as likely with women to disagree with traditional gendered family dynamics (40% vs. 37%) |
United States | 2008 | National Study of the Changing Workforce, p. 9 | Families and Work Institute | details |
844 | Parenthood | The difference between how much time fathers vs. mothers spend with their children on workdays is less than one hour (3.1 vs. 4 hrs) |
United States | 2008 | National Study of the Changing Workforce, p. 14 | Families and Work Institute | details |
845 | Workplace | Men are more likely than women to report work-life conflict (49% vs. 43%), despite popular belief to the contrary |
United States | 2008 | National Study of the Changing Workforce, p. 18 | Families and Work Institute | details |
846 | Workplace | In dual-earner couples, fathers are more likely than mothers to report work-life conflict (60% vs. 47%), despite popular belief to the contrary |
United States | 2008 | National Study of the Changing Workforce, p. 19 | Families and Work Institute | details |
847 | Dimorphism | Among FtM transsexuals on hormone therapy, grey matter associated with language centers markedly decreased (while white matter connecting the areas increased to compensate) |
Austria | 2015 | Neuronal plasticity of language-related brain regions induced by long-term testosterone treatment | Medical University of Vienna | details |
848 | Dimorphism | Structural connectomes of transsexuals change in opposite paths following hormone therapy |
Austria | 2014 | Structural Connectivity Networks of Transgender People | Medical University of Vienna | details |
849 | Legal System | It is a felony for a man to have sex with ("seduce and debauch") an unmarried woman |
United States | 2015 | Michigan Penal Code, Act 328 of 1931; 750.532: Seduction | State of Michigan | details |
850 | Sexuality | Pornography users hold more egalitarian attitudes—toward women in positions of power, toward women working outside the home, and toward abortion—than nonusers of pornography |
United States | 2015 | Is Pornography Really about ‘‘Making Hate to Women’’? Pornography Users Hold More Gender Egalitarian Attitudes Than Nonusers in a Representative American Sample, p. 1 | Western University | details |
851 | Violence, Intimate Partner | In IPV killings, women more likely to use weapons (knife or gun) than men |
Canada | 2012 | Women who kill their mates | Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre | details |
852 | Violence, Intimate Partner | After killing IP, men >3x likely to attempt suicide than women (45% vs. 14%) |
Canada | 2012 | Women who kill their mates | Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre | details |
853 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Of women who kill IP, only 26% were previously victims of IPV |
Canada | 2012 | Women who kill their mates | Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre | details |
854 | Parenthood | For the set of 25 questions measuring enjoyment of childcare tasks, female professionals had higher mean enjoyment scores than males on 24 of the 25 tasks |
United States | 2012 | Gender Roles and Infant/Toddler Care: Male and Female Professors on the Tenure Track, p. 23 | University of Virginia, University of Connecticut | details |
855 | Violence | Female victims of serious violent crime are >2x more likely to receive assistance from a victim assistance agency than are male victims (15% vs. 6%) |
United States | 2011 | Use of Victim Service Agencies by Victims of Serious Violent Crime, 1993-2009, p. 1 | Department of Justice | details |
856 | Violence | Among violent crime victims, >2x the percentage of rape or other sexual assault victims (21%) received assistance from a victim service agency, compared to victims of robbery (8%), aggravated assault (9%), and simple assault (7%). |
United States | 2011 | Use of Victim Service Agencies by Victims of Serious Violent Crime, 1993-2009, p. 3 | Department of Justice | details |
857 | Violence | Despite a similar percentage of victims of IP and non-IP violence (60% vs 57%) who reported to the police, a greater percentage of victims of IP than non-IP violence (23% vs. 8%) received assistance from a victim service agency |
United States | 2011 | Use of Victim Service Agencies by Victims of Serious Violent Crime, 1993-2009, p. 4 | Department of Justice | details |
858 | Violence | Though 43% of serious violent crime victimizations were against women, women accounted for 66% of the victims who received assistance from a victim service agency |
United States | 2011 | Use of Victim Service Agencies by Victims of Serious Violent Crime, 1993-2009, p. 5 | Department of Justice | details |
859 | Workplace | Regardless of whether a mother is working or stay-at-home, the majority of mothers would prefer to not work outside the home (54% and 57%) |
United States | 2015 | Children a Key Factor in Women's Desire to Work Outside the Home | Gallup | details |
860 | Workplace | Regardless of whether a father is working or stay-at-home, the strong majority of fathers would prefer to work outside the home (70% and 76%) |
United States | 2015 | Children a Key Factor in Women's Desire to Work Outside the Home | Gallup | details |
867 | Education | Among students to took online (open, non-credited, non-graded, voluntary) courses, women disproportionately elected to take courses in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, and disporportionally elected NOT to take take courses in Engineering and Computer Sciences |
United States | 2013 | The Interesting Percentages of Female Students in MIT and Harvard Online Courses | Harvard, MIT | details |
868 | Education | 1995 was the last year young women and men had equal rates of high school and college attainment |
United States | 2004 | Educational Attainment in the United States: 2003, p. 3 | Department of Commerce | details |
869 | Education | The only age bracket in which men are more likely than women to have a Bachelor degree is in the 65+ population |
United States | 2015 | Women Now at the Head of the Class, Lead Men in College Attainment | Department of Commerce | details |
870 | Parenthood | When factoring in Paid Work, Housework, and Child Care, fathers put in more hours or work per week than mothers (54 vs. 53) |
United States | 2011 | Modern Parenthood | Pew | details |
871 | Parenthood | Roughly equal shares of working mothers and fathers (56% vs. 50%) report feeling stressed about juggling work and family. |
United States | 2013 | Modern Parenthood | Pew | details |
872 | Workplace | Among mothers with children under 18, only 32% would prefer to work full time |
United States | 2013 | Modern Parenthood | Pew | details |
873 | Workplace | Working mothers value 'flexible schedules' the most, while working fathers value 'high pay' the most |
United States | 2013 | Modern Parenthood | Pew | details |
874 | Parenthood | 78% of working mothers say they are doing an excellent or very good job as a parent, compared with 64% of non-working mothers. | 31% of working mothers say they are very happy, compared with 45% of non-working mothers. |
United States | 2013 | Modern Parenthood | Pew | details |
875 | Marriage | In households where the father is the sole breadwinner, his total workload exceeds that of his spouse or partner by roughly 11 hours (57 vs. 46 hours per week). |
United States | 2013 | Modern Parenthood | Pew | details |
876 | Parenthood | Married fathers’ time in paid and unpaid work totals about 55.5 hours per week, 1.4 hours more than that of married mothers. |
United States | 2013 | Modern Parenthood | Pew | details |
877 | Parenthood | In households where the father is the sole breadwinner, his total workload exceeds that of his spouse or partner by roughly 11 hours (57 vs. 46 hours per week). |
United States | 2013 | Modern Parenthood | Pew | details |
878 | Education | Women have had higher college enrollment than men since 1979 |
United States | 2014 | Digest of Education Statistics, Table 303.10 | Institute of Educational Sciences | details |
879 | Education | By 2025, women are projected to make up 58.8% of college enrollment |
United States | 2014 | Digest of Education Statistics, Table 303.10 | Institute of Educational Sciences | details |
880 | Education | Boys are 29% more likely than girls not to finish high school (9% vs. 7%) |
United States | 2013 | Status Dropout Rates, p. 6 | Institute of Educational Sciences | details |
881 | Education | Boys are 17% more likely than girls not to finish high school (7% vs. 6%) |
United States | 2014 | Status Dropout Rates, p. 6 | Institute of Educational Sciences | details |
882 | Health | The rate of men who can't sork due to illness or disability is 3.75x what it was in 1968 (6% vs. 1.6%) |
United States | 2014 | The shocking pain of American men | Princeton | details |
883 | Violence, Digital | Women are 58% more likely than men to use 'abusive' language (i.e. - "slut" and "whore") on Twitter. |
international | 2016 | React: Will Twitter ever be Free of Misogynistic Abuse? | Brandwatch | details |
884 | Violence, Digital | Of all tweets that contain the words "slut" or "whore," only 15% were deemed aggressive (rest are either pornographic, self-identification, or miscellaneous) |
international | 2016 | The Use of Misogynistic Terms on Twitter, p. 5 | Demos | details |
885 | Violence, Digital | Women are 13% more likely than men to use 'abusive' language (i.e. - "slut" and "whore") on Twitter (53% vs. 47%) |
international | 2016 | The Use of Misogynistic Terms on Twitter, pp. 6-7 | Demos | details |
886 | Rape Culture | When polled on fear of certain crimes happening, 'sexual assault' ranks second-to-lowest (16%) |
United States | 2015 | Americans' Fears About Robbery and Theft Down in 2015 | Gallup | details |
887 | Rape Culture | 33% of women worry about being sexually assaulted, despite 0.9% being victims of assault in past 12 months |
United States | 2016 | One in Three U.S. Women Worry About Being Sexually Assaulted | Gallup | details |
888 | Mortality | Women live 6% longer than men (81.2 vs. 76.4 years) |
United States | 2014 | Deaths: Final Data for 2006, pp. 2, 33 | US Department of Health and Human Services | details |
889 | Mortality | Of the top 15 leading causes of death, men outnumber women in all but 2 (cerebrovascular deseases (equal) and Alzheimer's disease (fewer)) |
United States | 2014 | Deaths: Final Data for 2006, p. 5 | US Department of Health and Human Services | details |
890 | Mortality | Since at least 1970, white (and black) men have a lower life expectancy than black women |
United States | 2014 | Deaths: Final Data for 2006, p. 10, Fig. 5 | US Department of Health and Human Services | details |
891 | Mortality | The female-male life expectancy rate gap is 41% higher than the white-black gap (4.8 vs. 3.4 years) |
United States | 2014 | Deaths: Final Data for 2006, pp. 8-9 | US Department of Health and Human Services | details |
892 | Mortality | Men die of drug-induced causes at 1.6x the rate of women |
United States | 2014 | Deaths: Final Data for 2006, pp. 12-13 | US Department of Health and Human Services | details |
893 | Mortality | Men die of alcohol-induced causes at 2.8x the rate of women |
United States | 2014 | Deaths: Final Data for 2006, p. 13 | US Department of Health and Human Services | details |
894 | Mortality | Male infants have a 20% higher mortality rate than female infants |
United States | 2014 | Deaths: Final Data for 2006, p. 15 | US Department of Health and Human Services | details |
895 | Education | Males of lower-secondary school age (12-15 years) are 13% more likely than their female counterparts to be out-of-school |
international | 2015 | A growing number of children and adolescents are out of school as aid fails to meet the mark, p. 2 | UNESCO Institute for Statistics | details |
896 | Education | With the exception of sub-Saharan Africa, primary age and adolescent males are more likely to be out-of-school than their female peers |
international | 2015 | A growing number of children and adolescents are out of school as aid fails to meet the mark, pp. 4-5 | UNESCO Institute for Statistics | details |
897 | Workplace | Male lawyers bill ten percent more hours and bring in more than twice the new client revenue than do female lawyers. |
United States | 2015 | Gender Gaps in Performance: Evidence from Young Lawyers | London School of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | details |
898 | Education | There are 6% more women than men (548,485 vs 515,810) enrolled in STEM study in university. |
United Kingdom | 2017 | Who's studying in HE?, HE student enrolments by subject of study | Higher Education Statistical Agency | details |
899 | Education | There are 57% more women than men (765,550 vs 487,010) enrolled in non-STEM study in university. |
United Kingdom | 2017 | Who's studying in HE?, HE student enrolments by subject of study | Higher Education Statistical Agency | details |
900 | Income | Male drivers who contract with Uber make 7% more per hour on average, and demonstrably none of that 7% can be due to gender discrimination. It is entirely predicated on (1) the routes they choose (20% of gap), (2) their average tenure contributing to increased expertise (30% of gap), and (3) men driving faster to complete 50% more trips per hour (50% of gap). |
United States | 2018 | The Gender Earnings Gap in the Gig Economy: Evidence from over a Million Rideshare Drivers | Stanford University, University of Chicago, NBER | details |
901 | Dimorphism | Significant sex differences in toy preferences are found in infants and toddlers (ages 9 months to 32 months), without parents being present in the room for gendered reinforcement. |
United Kingdom | 2016 | Preferences for ‘Gender-typed’ Toys in Boys and Girls Aged 9 to 32 Months | City University London, University College London | details |
902 | Patriarchy | In a gender-blind "resume name swap" survey of a political candidate, there was no significant difference in any metric between peoples' acceptance of the female candidate vs the male candidate. |
United States | 2008 | Men or Women: Who’s the Better Leader? A Paradox in Public Attitudes, pp. 5-6 | PEW Research Center | details |
903 | Patriarchy | Younger and middle-aged women are more inclined than older women to say that men rather than women have the better life in this country. |
United States | 2008 | Men or Women: Who’s the Better Leader? A Paradox in Public Attitudes, pp. 9, 37 | PEW Research Center | details |
904 | Patriarchy | Women are much more likely to see themselves more favorably then men see themselves. Men gave rated themselves higher than women on 5 of the 12 leadership traits surveyed, while women rated themselves higher on 10 out of 12. |
United States | 2008 | Men or Women: Who’s the Better Leader? A Paradox in Public Attitudes, p. 8 | PEW Research Center | details |
905 | Violence, Sexual | Men have a tendency to deny that [childhood] sexual assault has an effect on their lives. |
Iceland | 2012 | Deep and almost unbearable suffering: Consequences of childhood sexual abuse for men's health and well-being, p. 8 | University of Akureyri, University of Iceland | details |
906 | Violence, Sexual | Men with a history of childhood sexual assault have difficulty touching their own children, and are often treated as de facto future abusers. |
Iceland | 2012 | Deep and almost unbearable suffering: Consequences of childhood sexual abuse for men's health and well-being, p. 8 | University of Akureyri, University of Iceland | details |
907 | Violence, Sexual | Male victims of childhood sexual abuse tend to process their emotional pain and fear outward (resulting in anger, aggression, and rage) while female victims process inward (resulting in despair, insecurity, and alertness). |
Iceland | 2014 | Consequences of childhood sexual abuse for health and well-being: Gender similarities and differences, pp. 4-5 | University of Akureyri, University of Iceland | details |
908 | Violence, Sexual | Being made to feel responsible for childhood sexual abuse - resulting in self-accusations, shame, and guilt - is not a gendered response. Despite how it might otherwise be characterized, men are equally made to feel guilty as are women. |
Iceland | 2014 | Consequences of childhood sexual abuse for health and well-being: Gender similarities and differences, pp. 4-5 | University of Akureyri, University of Iceland | details |
909 | Violence, Sexual | While victims of childhood sexual abuse of both genders use alcohol to numb their emotional pain, men are more likely to become addicted to drugs and prescription medication on top of that. |
Iceland | 2014 | Consequences of childhood sexual abuse for health and well-being: Gender similarities and differences, p. 5 | University of Akureyri, University of Iceland | details |
910 | Violence, Sexual | Male victims of childhood sexual abuse tend to be in greater denial and have a tendency to not seek help. |
Iceland | 2014 | Consequences of childhood sexual abuse for health and well-being: Gender similarities and differences, pp. 4-5 | University of Akureyri, University of Iceland | details |
911 | Violence, Sexual | While female victims of childhood sexual assault have problems with trusting others, male victims feel that trust is not a viable option - they disconnect emotionally, never managing to relate or trust again. |
Iceland | 2014 | Consequences of childhood sexual abuse for health and well-being: Gender similarities and differences, p. 6 | University of Akureyri, University of Iceland | details |
912 | Homelessness | Of all homeless adults in shelter, 63.2% are men, and 36.8% are women. |
United States | 2012 | The 2012 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress, sec. 1, p. 8 | Department of Housing and Urban Development | details |
913 | Homelessness | More than 9 in 10 (92.2%) veterans in homeless shelters are men. |
United States | 2012 | The 2012 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress, sec. 4, p. 8 | Department of Housing and Urban Development | details |
914 | Rape Culture | Among crime victimization, violent crimes occur significantly less frequently than property crime. Of violent crimes, sexual assault occurs the least frequently. |
United States | 2015 | U.S. Crime Index Steady, But ID Theft Rises | PEW Research Center | details |
915 | Rape Culture | Among crime victimization, violent crimes occur significantly less frequently than property crime. Of violent crimes, sexual assault occurs the least frequently. |
United States | 2016 | Americans' Reports of Crime Victimization at High Ebb | PEW Research Center | details |
916 | Rape Culture | Of all the 7 categories of crime surveyed, the 'sexual assault' category was #6 in frequency. |
United States | 2017 | Fewer Americans Say Household Victimized by Crime | PEW Research Center | details |
917 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Within the last 12 months, men were victims of intimate partner physical violence than women (5,365,000 vs 4,741,000). |
United States | 2010 | National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey: 2010 Summary Report, p. 38 | Center for Disease Control | details |
918 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Within the last 12 months, men were 41.7% of the victims of severe intimate partner physical violence (2,266,000 out of 5,429,000). |
United States | 2010 | National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey: 2010 Summary Report, pp. 44-45 | Center for Disease Control | details |
919 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Within the last 12 months, men were more often the victims of coercive control from an intimate partner (57.6%, 17,253,000 of 29,942,000). |
United States | 2010 | National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey: 2010 Summary Report, pp. 46 | Center for Disease Control | details |
920 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Within the last 12 months, men were more often the victims of psychological aggression from an intimate partner (55.3%, 20,548,000 of 37,126,000). |
United States | 2010 | National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey: 2010 Summary Report, pp. 46 | Center for Disease Control | details |
921 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Within the last 12 months, men were 46.2% of the victims of expressive psychological aggression (10,573,000 out of 22,907,000). |
United States | 2010 | National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey: 2010 Summary Report, p. 46 | Center for Disease Control | details |
922 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Men are more likely than women to have an intimate partner try to control their reproductive or sexual health - having an intimate partner who tried to achieve a pregnancy when they did not want to or tried to stop them from using birth control (10.4% male victimization vs. 8.6% female victimization) . |
United States | 2010 | National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey: 2010 Summary Report, p. 48 | Center for Disease Control | details |
923 | Parenthood | A majority of the perpetrators of child abuse/neglect are women (53.5% vs 45.3%). |
United States | 2012 | Child Maltreatment 2012, pp. xii, 68 | Dept of Health and Human Services | details |
927 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Severe injuries (e.g., broken bones, loss of consciousness) were relatively rare. Less than 1% of men and women arrestees have been found to inflict serious injuries in IPV incidents |
United States | 1997 | Double your trouble: Dual arrest in family violence. Journal of Family Violence. p. 149, Table II | Eastern Connecticut State University | details |
924 | Violence, Intimate Partner | Although men were more likely to be arrested for IPV, nonofficial data indicate that these same men were not significantly higher than were their women partners in physical and psychological aggression or in mean levels of more severe physical aggression. |
United States | 2009 | Official Incidents of Domestic Violence: Types, Injury, and Associations with Nonofficial Couple Aggression, p. 9 | Oregon Social Learning Center | details |
925 | Violence, Intimate Partner | 13.66% of couples reported male-to-female IPV while 18.20% of couples reported female-to-male IPV. (A 33% difference) |
United States | 2006 | Estimating the Number of American Children Living in Partner-Violent Families, p. 139 | Southern Methodist University | details |
926 | Violence, Intimate Partner | 3.63% of couples reported severe male-to-female IPV while 7.52% of couples reported severe female-to-male IPV. (Over a 100% difference) |
United States | 2006 | Estimating the Number of American Children Living in Partner-Violent Families, p. 139 | Southern Methodist University | details |
Media | Sibylle Loibl FM, Miguel Martin, Michael Untch, Herve Bonnefoi, Sung Bae Kim, Harry Bear, Nicole Mc Carthy, Mireia Mele Olive, Karen Gelmon, Jose Garcia Saenz, Catherine M Kelly, Toralf Reimer, Masakazu Toi, Hope S Rugo, Sabine Seiler, Valentina Nekljudova, Carsten Denkert, Michael Gnant, Andreas Makris, Nicole Burchardi, Gunter von Minckwitz lasix im |
United States | 1995 | details | |||
Media | When considering potential effect measure modification by PAHs or selenium levels, we observed that some associations with density tended to be more pronounced in women who lived in areas below the median levels of PAHs or selenium levels Additional file 1 Tables S4 and S5 cheap cialis 24 in the placebo group; cataract formation 540 cases in the Tamoxifen Arcana tamoxifen citrate group vs |
United States | 1994 | details | |||
Media | Minor 1 dexamethasone decreases levels of sulfasalazine by increasing renal clearance cialis for daily use The aficionados behind the counter give their attention to each cup so the customer will enjoy the drinks just as much as they do |
United States | 1983 | details | |||
Media | Other Brazilian population based studies have shown a prevalence of constipation between 14 and 25 6, 7, 8 generic for cialis Kidney Int 1995; 47 1615 1623 |
United States | 1990 | details | |||
Media | cDNA was generated from 1 cialis generic reviews This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea NRF grant No |
United States | 1996 | details | |||
Marriage | Ghana | 27 | payment | Virginia | details | ||
Economic Power | Vietnam | 1994 | payment | Virginia | details | ||
Divorce | Yemen | 16 | payment | Virginia | details |