019 - Special Session. The Complex Relationships between Gender and Economic Inequality

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

This session investigates the interaction and interplay between gender and economic inequality. Sociologist Philip Cohen examines trends in the 50 largest labor markets to see how changes in overall earnings inequality affect changes in inequality between men and women. Economist John Schmitt discusses how the fall in employment rates for men and rise for women are related to different treatment of men and women by such institutions as the military, incarceration, the EITC, AFDC/TANF, and post-secondary education. Sociologist Leslie McCall discusses class and racial differences in marriage benefits and marriage burdens for women. Economist Shawn Fremstad investigates the interactions between gender and class changes in their impact on family structure, stability and child outcomes.

Sub Unit

• Special Sessions

Session Organizer

• Stephanie Coontz, Evergreen State College

Presider

• Stephanie Coontz, Evergreen State College

Panelists

• Philip N. Cohen, University of Maryland-College Park

• John Schmitt, Center for Economic and Policy Research

• Leslie McCall, Northwestern University

• Shawn Fremstad, Center for American Progress