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Gender Inequality in Nonmetropolitan and Metropolitan Areas 1
Author(s) -
Cotter David A.,
DeFiore JoAnn,
Hermsen Joan M.,
Kowalewski Brenda Marsteller,
Vanneman Reeve
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
rural sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.083
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1549-0831
pISSN - 0036-0112
DOI - 10.1111/j.1549-0831.1996.tb00620.x
Subject(s) - metropolitan area , inequality , demographic economics , rural area , sociology , economic growth , geography , socioeconomics , political science , economics , mathematics , mathematical analysis , archaeology , law
Nonmetropolitan‐metropolitan differences in the United States are large and growing, but we know relatively little about how they interact with gender differences. Using data from the CPS, the Census PUMS, and the GSS, we find nonmetropolitan and metropolitan areas are quite similar in the gender gap in earnings and in rates of married women's labor force participation. Occupational sex segregation is higher and some gender attitudes are a few percentage points less egalitarian in nonmetropolitan areas. Each of these dimensions of gender stratification has been declining over the last two decades and the declines are roughly similar in nonmetropolitan and metropolitan areas. Variations in gender stratification have been greater over time than across place. Thus, while both place and gender are important dimensions of stratification, there appears to have been little interaction between the two.