Infanticide in 19th-century France is investigated by surveying historical evidence, and by modeling socioeconomic explanations of changes in secondary sex ratios, disaggregated by region and legitimacy status. The estimated seemingly unrelated regression model suggests that, while women received less than equitable access to the benefits of mechanization during the period of French industrial expansion, the need for low-wage female and child labor in the textile industry helped to significantly reduce female infanticide.

Feminist theory uses gender as a lens to evaluate society's institutions and power hierarchies. Gender evolves as a social construction rather than an essential difference between the sexes, and it supports the so-called ''hegemony of dominant men'' in society. Socialization by gender enables discrimination in gender roles and occupations, and its main tool of segregation is a major strategy used by employers and other decision makers to engage effectively in discrimination. The extent to which the principle of gender organizes selection of field of study by students and faculty, and other facets of the community college campus, provides for a number of ongoing research questions.

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Marriage partners' parenting preferences are shown to be determined by an internal (within the household) game, the outcome of which is influenced by "extra-environmental parameters" in the form of an external game between outside gender-based interest groups and the government.

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