Title: How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World | Scholars Strategy Network
Headings: How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World
How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World
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Cecilia L. Ridgeway
Continuing Gender Inequalities in the United States
Making Sense of Persistent Gender Inequality
How People Approach New Situations
Are Gender Inequities Impossible to Overcome?

Content: Without anyone consciously intending it, even very highly qualified women can be left to the side – and they are unlikely to make up ground as long as its original “boys’ club” atmosphere and assumptions about the kinds of people most likely to be innovative and high-achieving persist in the organization’s outlook and ways of attracting and promoting people. High-tech is not only innovative but male-dominated. Are Gender Inequities Impossible to Overcome? Once we understand how powerful everyday gender assumptions can be in shaping ongoing social relationships in all spheres, we better understand why gender inequalities are so difficult to overcome. Gender equality is not impossible to attain – but the struggle is constant and is sure to have ups and downs. My research also suggests that the fight for gender equality will have to be waged at the level of how people think, even as laws and institutional policies open new doors. Our assumptions about what women and men can and should do have a long way to catch up with the new possibilities created by education, economic innovation, and equal legal rights. Read more in Cecilia L. Ridgeway, Framed by Gender: How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2011).