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The gay wage gap is the pay gap between homosexuals and heterosexuals. In the United States, men in same-sex marriages have a significantly higher median household income than opposite-sex married couples: $123,600 and $96,930, respectively. [ 1 ]
In Italy the age of consent is 14. A Romeo and Juliet rule applies for an age difference of one year. However, if the older person has a position of authority over the younger, such as a relative, teacher, parish priest, or doctor, the age of consent is 16. [citation needed]
[6] [9] This greater male frequency is increased in those over the age of 65. [10] Suicide attempts are between two and four times more frequent among females. [11] [12] [13] Researchers have partly attributed the difference between suicide and attempted suicide among the sexes to males using more lethal means to end their lives.
In 2005, USA Today reported that the "college gender gap" was widening, stating that 57% of U.S. college students are female. [79] This gap has been gradually widening, and as of 2014, almost 45% of women had a bachelor's degree, compared to 32% of men with a bachelor's degree. [80]
A small performance difference in mathematics on the SAT [27] persists in favor of males, though the gap has shrunk from 40 points (5.0%) in 1975 [28] to 18 points (2.3%) in 2020. [29] However, the SAT is not a representative sample, given that it tests only college-bound students, and more women than men have attended college since the 1990s ...
Sex differences in crime are differences between men and women as the perpetrators or victims of crime.Such studies may belong to fields such as criminology (the scientific study of criminal behavior), sociobiology (which attempts to demonstrate a causal relationship between biological factors, in this case biological sex and human behaviors), or feminist studies.
The age requirement for marriage is 22 years of age for men and 20 years of age for women and the 1980 law also encouraged late marriage and later child birth. [16] This provision in the law shows a change from the 1950 law which set the age requirements at 18 and 20 for women and men respectively, showing state support of marriage at a later age.
A break-down of women's pay for different professional and service categories. Based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, produced by the U.S. Department of Labor's Women's Bureau in 2014 for the 50th anniversary of the 1963 Equal Pay Act.