Gender Differences in Employment Worldwide

In a recent report from Gallup World, it was found that, worldwide, men are almost twice as likely to have a "good" job than women. The report shows that 34% of men report having a good job compared to 18% of women who report the same. Gallup defines a "good' job as one that requires full-time work for an employer. The data for this report were gathered from 2005/2006 through 2013 in face to face or landline telephone interviews of 225,975 individuals aged 15 and older throughout the world. 

The table shows that women's highest deficit in full-time employment are in South Asia (-26%) and Non-EU Europe (-22%), while Sub-Sarahan Africa has the lowest deficit (-7%) followed by the Commonwealth of Independent States (-8%).  The deficit for women in Northern America stands at -19%. 

themostsearched.org offers several teaching/learning tools on the topics of worldwide employment and gender in employment: Gallup's Global Tracking Tool, Employment to Population Ratio , and Occupational Segregation and Earning Differences .

Read more:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/164666/globally-men-twice-likely-women-good-job.aspx
http://www.gallup.com/home.aspx?ref=logo
http://www.gallup.com/poll/world.aspx?ref=logo

themostsearched.org Resources:
http://themostsearched.org/resource/3898
http://themostsearched.org/resource/2936
http://themostsearched.org/resource/3109

Unemployment Rate Differences between Black and White Americans

A recent Pew Research Center report in FacTank, analyst, Drew DeSilver, said that since 1954, the unemployment rate of Black Americans has consistently been twice that of White Americans. The report is based on data taken from the Labor Force Statistics, a part of the Current Population Survey (CPS), a monthly survey of 4,500 scientifically selected American households. The data are collected for the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics by the U.S. Census Bureau. 

 In 1954, the unemployment rate for Black Americans was 1.98 times that of White Americans while in 2013 the rate for Black Americans was exactly twice that of White Americans and in 1983, the rate for Black Americans was 2.32 times that of White Americans. Overall, the unemployment rate for Black Americans since 1954 is 2.2 times that of White Americans.


Read more:
http://pewrsr.ch/13FF0U0  
http://www.pewresearch.org/
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/
http://www.pewresearch.org/author/ddesilver/
http://www.bls.gov/cps/
http://www.bls.gov/
http://www.census.gov/

Gender Gap in Well-Being among Veterans

According to a recent Gallup poll, female veterans of the U.S. military have a much better outlook on their lives than male veterans do. This finding comes from the survey of 353,561 Americans from Jan. 2 through Dec. 31, 2012 which is the basis for the data for the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index . Among the general survey population, 48,690 respondents indicated they were a veteran, either retired from service or honorably discharged from the U.S. military. Female veterans were far more likely to rate their lives as "thriving" (54%) than their male counterparts (44%). While female veterans' life ratings are nearly on par with women in the general U.S. population, male veterans' ratings lag behind other men by a difference of eight percentage points.

The relationship between gender and well-being among veterans under the age of 65 is significant, even when controlling for employment status, income, race, education, geographic location, and whether or not one has children. Male and female veterans aged 65 and older are about equally likely to be thriving and they are just as likely to be thriving as their non-veteran counterparts. Among those aged 18 to 44, female veterans are 11 points more likely than male veterans to be thriving. And, while female veterans are just as likely as non-veterans to be thriving, men are significantly less likely than men in the general population of their same age group to be thriving.