
Women and the One Percent: What’s a Woman Got to Do?
It’s 2019, and while women have made great strides toward equality throughout history, the most probable path for a woman to become a member of the elite one percent economic status remains marriage. How can this be? According to a recent survey published in American Sociological Review, women have not made any progress in obtaining the one percent economic status through their own efforts in the past 20 years! Research has determined that women are 84 percent “less likely th