Gendered Fault Lines: A Demographic Profile of Puerto Rican Women in the United States MAURA TORO-MORN AND IVIS GARCÍA ZAMBRANO Maura Toro-Morn (mitmorn@ilstu.edu) is a professor of Sociology and Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at Illinois State University. She edited, Migration and Immigration: A Global View (Greenwood Press, 2004) with Marixsa Alicea. She co-edited Immigrant Women in the Neoliberal Age (University of Illinois Press, 2013) with Nilda Flores Gonzalez, Ana Guevarra and Grace Change. She has also published numerous articles about the gendered dimension of Puerto Rican migration to Chicago. Her next book is a collaboration with Ivis Garcia-Zambrana about Puerto Ricans in Illinois (University of Southern Illinois Press) Ivis García Zambrana (ivis.garcia@gmail.com) is an Assistant Professor in City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah. She is an urban planner with research interests in the areas of community development, housing, and identity politics. She has spent time as a professional planner in Albuquerque, San Francisco, Springfeld, Missouri, Washington, D.C., and most recently in Chicago, where she worked closely with the Puerto Rican Agenda. ABSTRACT Using U.S. Census of Population data, we ofer a demographic profle of Puerto Rican women in the new millennium. Through a range of socio-economic indica- tors—such as employment, education, income and poverty—we seek to examine the socio-economic issues that fracture women’s lives. The profle that emerges here is complex in that Puerto Rican women have made some advances, but they still fnd themselves vulnerable with respect to poverty. In bringing together multiple levels of analysis—comparing Puerto Ricans across urban centers, comparing Puerto Rican women to men, and to White, Black, and Mexican women—we seek to reveal the socio-structural processes that produce and reproduce inequality. [Key words: gender, inequality, Puerto Ricans, single-female households, poverty and migration] 10 CENTRO JOURNAL volume xxix • number iii • fall 2017