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Throughout history, women have fought towards gaining equality with men and numerous advances have been made over the past several decades. In the United States the number of women in the workforce has increased considerably, as has the number of women pursuing postsecondary and graduate-level education. Despite those advances, females continue to struggle for equality with their male counterparts as evidenced in the wage gap (in which women tend to be paid less than men for the same positions) as well as in taking primary responsibility for child care and running a household while also working. United States society continues to maintain stereotyped beliefs about women’s roles at home and within the workplace. The empowerment of women in a male-driven society will ideally redefine gender constructs and bring forth social, cultural, and political changes that will promote gender equality, women’s well-being, and a healthier society.
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Denmark, F.L., Schaffer, K., Baron, E.M., Goldstein, H., Thies, K. (2017). Women in the United States. In: Brown, C., Gielen, U., Gibbons, J., Kuriansky, J. (eds) Women's Evolving Lives. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58008-1_14
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