cloven hooves The Personal Is Political Women's Health Sexism Is a Risk Factor for Memory Decline Among Women

Sexism Is a Risk Factor for Memory Decline Among Women

Sexism Is a Risk Factor for Memory Decline Among Women

 
komorebi
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” – Audre Lorde
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Dec 26 2024, 10:35 PM
#2
Quote:The difference between being born in the most versus the least sexist state was equivalent to nine years of cognitive aging.


Jesus! That's way worse than I would have guessed.

The study, for further reading.
Edited Dec 26 2024, 10:36 PM by komorebi. Edit Reason: it ate my quote
komorebi
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” – Audre Lorde
Dec 26 2024, 10:35 PM #2

Quote:The difference between being born in the most versus the least sexist state was equivalent to nine years of cognitive aging.


Jesus! That's way worse than I would have guessed.

The study, for further reading.

Clover
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Dec 27 2024, 11:11 PM
#3
I was interested in seeing how the states compared to each other in terms of structural sexism. Figure 1 features the "structural sexism factor scores" but my god, what a terrible way to present the data. 50 states need 50 different colors and it looks like they chose a "pretty" gradient and it's just unreadable. Only useful to see a general trend of all the states, no easy way to pick out the individual state scores. I wish they at least labeled the lines at the end.

Update: I tried to do color-matching in photoshop and it's impossible lol. It's a JPG image, so there are pixels of various colors, some states are too close in hue to figure it out.

Early life exposure to structural sexism and late-life memory trajectories among black and white women and men in the United States 2.2.1 Structural sexism measure
Building on previous work,5 we compiled state-level indicators representing sex/gender disparities in access to resources and social mobility (i.e., economic, political, cultural, and reproductive health disparities) from the years 1900 to 1960. State-level data were extracted from publicly available data sources (Table S1). Specific indicators included men-women ratios for labor force participation, median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, percent above the poverty threshold, and state legislature seats, as well as the population composed of religious conservatives and the maternal mortality ratio (maternal deaths per live births). Detailed information on indicator selection and data acquisition is provided in the Supplemental Methods.

Table S1 apparently has all the measures of state-level structural sexism. They based it off of:
  • Economic
    1. Ratio of men’s to women’s labor force participation rates (age 16+)
    2. Ratio of men’s to women’s median weekly earnings (full-time wage and salary workers)
    3. Ratio of men’s to women’s poverty rate (percent above the federal poverty line)
  • Political (Ratio of men’s to women’s statelegislature seats)
  • Cultural (Percent of state population composed of religious conservatives (Evangelical Protestant or LDS))
  • Reproductive (Maternal Mortality Ratio (maternal deaths per live births))
Edited Dec 27 2024, 11:28 PM by Clover.
Clover
Kozlik's regular account 🍀🐐
Dec 27 2024, 11:11 PM #3

I was interested in seeing how the states compared to each other in terms of structural sexism. Figure 1 features the "structural sexism factor scores" but my god, what a terrible way to present the data. 50 states need 50 different colors and it looks like they chose a "pretty" gradient and it's just unreadable. Only useful to see a general trend of all the states, no easy way to pick out the individual state scores. I wish they at least labeled the lines at the end.

Update: I tried to do color-matching in photoshop and it's impossible lol. It's a JPG image, so there are pixels of various colors, some states are too close in hue to figure it out.

Early life exposure to structural sexism and late-life memory trajectories among black and white women and men in the United States 2.2.1 Structural sexism measure
Building on previous work,5 we compiled state-level indicators representing sex/gender disparities in access to resources and social mobility (i.e., economic, political, cultural, and reproductive health disparities) from the years 1900 to 1960. State-level data were extracted from publicly available data sources (Table S1). Specific indicators included men-women ratios for labor force participation, median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, percent above the poverty threshold, and state legislature seats, as well as the population composed of religious conservatives and the maternal mortality ratio (maternal deaths per live births). Detailed information on indicator selection and data acquisition is provided in the Supplemental Methods.

Table S1 apparently has all the measures of state-level structural sexism. They based it off of:
  • Economic
    1. Ratio of men’s to women’s labor force participation rates (age 16+)
    2. Ratio of men’s to women’s median weekly earnings (full-time wage and salary workers)
    3. Ratio of men’s to women’s poverty rate (percent above the federal poverty line)
  • Political (Ratio of men’s to women’s statelegislature seats)
  • Cultural (Percent of state population composed of religious conservatives (Evangelical Protestant or LDS))
  • Reproductive (Maternal Mortality Ratio (maternal deaths per live births))

komorebi
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” – Audre Lorde
103
Dec 28 2024, 2:49 AM
#4
Yeah..... I skimmed trying to find exactly what you were looking for and didn't surface it, so I gave up 😂 Didn't have the energy to dig deeper, lol.
komorebi
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” – Audre Lorde
Dec 28 2024, 2:49 AM #4

Yeah..... I skimmed trying to find exactly what you were looking for and didn't surface it, so I gave up 😂 Didn't have the energy to dig deeper, lol.

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