HY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 42: Dream Act, Robert Rauschenberg, Willem De Kooning
Document Summary
The "information age" followed world war ii and was marked by an industry of storing, organizing, and processing data. New communication tools threatened to eliminate jobs including post office workers, store clerks, and teachers. Scientific advancements created social and moral questions like, should the human gene pool be engineered? . Although americans" salaries increased during the 1990"s and 2000"s, they did not have the world"s high per-capita income, like they had in the 25 years after wwii. 1990s-2000s, the economic disparity between the rich and the poor increased as the richest 20 percent of americans made half of the nation"s income. Half of all workers were women by the 1990s. Women began to enter male-dominated fields including airline pilots, lawyers, etc. Despite these gains, women still made less money than men in equivalent positions, and women were still minorities in traditionally male-dominated fields. The gender gap was caused by discrimination and the greater burdens that families placed on women.
