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    Gender inequality persists in access to elite positions i... — Carmelics
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    Gender inequality persists in access to elite positions in the economy and government.

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    • 1.White males are about 40% of the population but about 95% of senior managers, 90% of newspaper editors, and 80% of congressional legislators.
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    • 2.Although women have made progress in entering elite positions, evidence indicates that such progress has now stalled.
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    A second feminist response stresses the ways that women's choices in the family interact with unjust social structures outside the family, in particular, with the sex segregated division of labor in the economy, where women still earn only about 75% of what men earn, for comparable work. Given women's lower wages, it is rational for families who must provide their own childcare to choose to withdraw women from the workforce. Once women withdraw, they find themselves falling further behind their
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