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

Sexual Violence against Women in Asia

In a recent article in the Graphic Details section of The Economist, it was reported that more than ten percent of surveyed men in six Asian nations said that they raped a woman who was not there partner and that number rose to nearly twenty-five percent if their partners were included. This finding is based on data from a UN study to assess the number of rapes which occur in the Asian region and was published in the Lancet Journal of Global Health.

The survey was administered from January, 2011 to December, 2012 to men ages 18 through 49 who lived in six Asian nations,Cambodia, China, Sri Lanka, Bangledesh, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia. The interviews were done in a  face-to-face manner and the men were ask about their sexual behaviors. The men were asked if they had ever "forced a woman who was not your wife or girlfriend at the time to have sex" or if they “had sex with a woman who was too drunk or drugged to indicate whether she wanted it," but the word "rape" was never used in the interview.

Read more:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/09/daily-chart-7?spc=scode&spv=xm&ah=9d7f7ab945510a56fa6d37c30b6f1709
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail
http://www.economist.com/
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(13)70069-X/fulltext
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/latestcontent

Overestimating the Black Population in the US

A recent article in The Atlantic reported that the 2000 General Social Survey asked 1,000 White adults to estimate what percentage of the US population is Black. 95% of White women and 85% of White men overestimated that percentage, which at the time, was 12%.  The overestimation was stronger for women than men: 69% of women and 49% of men guessed that Blacks comprised more than 20% of the population.