This report analyzes data for all 50 states and the District of Columbia across six topical areas that affect women’s lives: political participation, employment and earnings, work and family, poverty and opportunity, health and well-being, and violence and safety. Within each of these areas, various indicators of well-being are explored. While the focus of the report is on the status of Black women, comparisons between Black women and other racial and ethnic groups of women (and men) are presented to contextualize the data. Basic demographic data for each state are also provided. The report concludes with recommendations to improve the status of Black women in the United States.
Through key topics and episodes across British Empire history, Woollacott examines how gender ideologies and practices affected both sexes and saturated imperial politics and culture. Contains: Women and unfree labour in the 18th and 19th centuries: slavery, convict transportation, emancipation and indentured labour: Narratives of interracial sexual assault and crises of imperial rule: Masculinities, imperial adventuring and wars: Gender and everyday life in colonial regimes: Women in anti-colonial and nationalist movements: Gender and empire in the metropole.