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Lights and freedom/Women in the United States
General Statistics
Maternal mortality (per 100,000)14 (2015)
Women in parliament19.5% (2015)
Women over 25 with secondary education95.4% (2015)
Women in labour force56.0% (2015)
Gender Inequality Index
Value0.203 (2015)[1]
Rank43rd out of 159
Global Gender Gap Index[2]
Value0.720 (2018)
Rank51st

Intro paragraph summarizing important points.

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Relevant constitutional amendments, acts of Congress, court decisions, background in common law

Reproductive rights

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Birth control is legal nationwide.[3] The right of all women to an abortion in in the first trimester of their pregnancy was legally recognized in the Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade in 1973.[4]

Representation

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Statistics of women in government.

Statistics of women in other leadership roles and in the workforce.

Gender roles

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What activities are more associated with women, or more associated with men.

Pressures on women to do certain things instead of others.

Depictions of women in media.

(Intersectionality.)

Within relationships

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Expectations of women's role in relationships.

Violence against women

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Incidence of violence against women and relevant statistics.

Gender discrimination (or Gender inequality?)

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Including general rankings of gender inequality (although perhaps these belong in Representation), and material from sources talking specifically about gender discrimination.

References

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  1. ^ "Table 5: Gender Inequality Index - Human Development Reports 2015". United Nations Development Programme. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
  2. ^ "The Global Gender Gap Report 2018" (PDF). World Economic Forum. pp. 10–11.
  3. ^ "Griswold v. Connecticut - The Impact of Legal Birth Control and the Challenges that Remain". lobby.la.psu.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-20.
  4. ^ Chemerinsky (2019), 10.3.3.1, p. 887.


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