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Women Are Not Men: A New Freakonomics Radio Podcast

Jennifer Schwartz
Jennifer Schwartz

In honor of National Women’s History Month, Freakonomics rebroadcast an exploration of several ways that “Women Are Not Men.” It looks at how the gender gap is closing, and how it’s not. Examples include the gender gap among editors of the world’s biggest encyclopedia, and the “female happiness paradox.” WSU associate professor of sociology Jennifer Schwartz talks about one of the biggest gender gaps out there: crime. Which begs the question: if you’re rooting for women and men to become completely equal, should you root for women to commit more crimes?

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Number of female DUIs soaring across the country, statistics show

Jennifer Schwartz
Jennifer Schwartz
Associate Professor of Sociology Jennifer Schwartz told the Chicago Tribune that women are drinking about as much as in the past but are driving more. Women might also be more likely to be arrested since many states stiffened the legal definition of intoxication.

“They may be getting caught more often now for behavior they’ve always had,” Schwartz told the Tribune.

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