Memo to John Roberts: the gender wage gap is real.Hartmann, HeidiGault, BarbaraWilliams, Erica
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — We hear it over and over again: the myth of the gender wage “gap.” Here’s President Obama, speaking on June 4: “And we’ve made progress. But we’ve got a lot more to do. Women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar a man earns.” An Obama...
Women in Israel earned 69% of the average male monthly salary in 2017. The global average gender wage gap for 2018 stands at 19%Adi Pick 15:4418.12.18 TAGS: Wage Gap Gender Israel SalaryThe gender wage gap in Israel is larger than the global average. Women in Israel earned 69% of the...
To give an example, in the U.S., the U.K., and other countries in northern Europe, the gender wage gap is either rising with levels of education, or roughly flat, while in southern Europe gender wage penalties are largest among the unskilled. Large variations in wage gaps are ...
Thus, the Sri Lankan case is in some sense a natural experiment, providing an indication to countries struggling to close the gender gap in education: if they succeed, what is the magnitude of the wage gap that would persist, and why? Existing studies of the gender wage gap in Sri Lanka...
The gender wage gap is accounted for to a substantial degree by the sex composition of occupations. The present thesis examines the mechanisms that produce this pattern. In particular, the theory of devaluation, currently the most widely accepted sociological explanation, is tested. The empirical fin...
Meanwhile, American Indian and Alaska Native Americans had the smallest gender wage gap, with women making 91.5% of the median earnings of men. Why Is There a Gender Pay Gap? Gender pay gaps exist for a number of reasons, and cannot be attributed to just one cause. Women are more likely...
Wahlberg, R 2010, `The gender wage gap across the wage distribution in the private and public sectors', Applied Economics Letters, vol. 17, no. 15, pp. 1465-1468.Wahlberg, R. (2010): "The gender wage gap across the wage distribution in the private and public sectors in Sweden," ...
This paper addresses the following questions: is there greater precariousness in Mexico’s secondary sector than in its tertiary sector? Is female work more precarious than male work? What factors determine the gender labor gap? Does labor precariousness determine the gender wage gap? We analyze the...
“Women’s education attainment has increased disproportionately [to men’s], so now that women have comparable if not higher levels of education than men, what’s left -- why is there still a gender wage gap?” Gould said. “At the top end, you can think of the hours that women have...