Sociology: Your Compass for a New World Robert J. Brym and John Lie Wadsworth Group/Thomson Learning © 2003

Chapter 9 Gender and Sexuality Supplementary Slides

Median Weekly Earnings by Concentration of Women in Professional Categories, U.S.A., 1997 Median weekly earnings ($) Ratio of women to men Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics (1998a). Note: Professional categories include “engineers, architects and surveyors,” “mathematical and computer scientists,” “natural scientists,” “health diagnosing occupations,” “health assessment and treating occupations,” “teachers, college and university,” “teachers, except college and university,” “counselors, educational and vocational,” “librarians, archivists and curators,” “social scientists and urban planners,” “social, recreational and religious workers,” “lawyers and judges,” and “writers, artists, entertainers and athletes.” r = trend line

Ratio of Women’s to Men’s Poverty Rate, Mid-1980s Source: Casper, McLanahan, and Garfinkel (1994: 597). Ratio of Women’s to Men’s Poverty Rate

Source: “Household Data Annual Averages,” U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. On the World Wide Web at (21 May 2001). Top Five and Bottom Five Occupations by Median Weekly Earnings, Showing Percent Women in Each Occupation, U.S.A., 2000 Median Weekly Earnings ($) % women