Measuring Equality Between the Sexes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10219641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ruth B Dixon (University of California, Davis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 19-32 |
| Publication date | 1976-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4537 • E-ISSN: 1540-4560 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1976.tb02594.x |
| OpenAlex | W2171659621 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 14 |
Measures of the status of women and their potential for equality with men may be derived from women's position in five major spheres of activity — sexual relationships, reproduction, homemaking and child‐care, economic production, and political decision making— and from the degree of functional independence among these spheres of activity. Some commonly used statistical indicators of the status of women in the United States from 1900 through the early 1970s are evaluated as measures of progress toward equality between the sexes, defined here as the abolition of the social division of labor based on gender, and some new measures are proposed
Biology · Demographic economics · Development economics · Division of labour · Economic independence · Economics · Independence (probability theory · Political science · Politics · Position (finance · Reproduction · Separate spheres · Statistics · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Law · Mathematics · Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Women's childhood experience of parental separation and their subsequent health and socioeconomic status in adulthood
From Norms to Numbers
Achievement-related expectations and aspirations in college women
Sex-role behavior and obedience to authority
Changing Family Roles and Interactions
The Role of Structural Factors in Limiting Women's Institutional Participation
Measurement of Women's Agency in Egypt
Moving From 'The Status of Women' to 'Gender Inequality
Social indicator models
Premarital dating behavior
Engagement and marriage
Plus Ca Change…? The Sexual Structure of Occupations over Time
Toward a Sociology of Women
Can we Believe Recent Data on Birth Expectations in the United States
The Motherhood Mandate
The Premarital Sexual Revolution among College Females
The Declining Status of Women
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 1976 - 2025 (50) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |