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Sex Segregation

Why Are More Public Schools Separating Boys From Girls In Classes?

Posted 10.09.2011 | Home
Read More: Girls, Sex Segregation, Indianapolis Schools, Same-Gender Classes, Education, Gender Segregation, Indianapolis, Same-Gender Education, Same-Sex Classes, Indianapolis Public Schools, Boys, Schools, Same-Sex Education, Home News

Boys downstairs, girls upstairs on the first day -- and for every day thereafter -- of school Monday at Arlington Community High School in Indianapoli...

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In Phd Hunt, Men Track Men

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: National Science Foundation, Sex Segregation, Science, Education, Doctoral Degrees, Higher Education, Gender Inequality, Gender, College News
Philip N. Cohen

While women integrate, men accumulate. The National Science Foundation has published new numbers on the PhDs granted in 2009, with a nice interactive...

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Gender Segregation in Muslim Societies: From Jahiliyya to Muhammed to Fatwa Chaos

Fahad Faruqui | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
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Fahad Faruqui

The strict gender segregation found in many Muslim societies today is led by religious hardliners who view women as a source of temptation, seeing no virtue in dignified male-female interaction.

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Sex-Segregated Education on Trial Today

Lenora M. Lapidus | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Aclu, Sex Segregation, Women's Rights, Education, Louisiana, Title IX, Politics News
Lenora M. Lapidus

It is quite startling that many people who would never consider segregation based on race or religion in a public school would accept sex segregation.

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Can You See The Separate Worlds of Work for Men and Women?

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Sex Segregation, Gender Discrimination, Economy, Employment, Gender, Jobs, Glass Ceiling, Business News
Philip N. Cohen

Lots of people work in environments that seem integrated. But these are mostly in the white collar jobs of the professionals and the college educated; the blue-collar world is still a man's world.

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Women May Be Losing Jobs, Too: But They're Different Jobs

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Sex Segregation, Women, Economy, Employment, Opt-Out Revolution, New York Times, Recession, Gender, Business News
Philip N. Cohen

There was a strong trend of occupational desegregation, but the pace of that change slowed markedly in the 1990s.

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