The age-old pay gap between men and women is, depressingly, as strong an institution as ever.
The income gap between men and women has narrowed over the last two decades.
The wage gap between men and women is 23%, among the widest in the EU. That is partly because though women's participation rate is above average for Europe, many of those women work part-time (see chart 6).
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Reducing the dropout rate of women in STEM careers is especially important because women in STEM jobs earn 33 percent more than those in non-STEM occupations and the wage gap between men and women in STEM jobs is smaller than in other fields.
The gap between the amount men and women in Scotland are saving for retirement has grown to a record high, according to an annual survey.
Catherine Rampell, writing in a recent New York Times Economix Blog, cited data from PayScale that tracks the wage gap between equally educated men and women through their careers.
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On the lower rungs, adult women are still the majority of minimum wage earners and the majority of clerical support workers, and the pay gap between women and men working full time and year-round is just under 20%.
On top of all of this, the gap between the rate for men and women has only come down a few percentage points in the U.S., while it plummeted from nearly 30 points for the other countries to just 13.
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The gap between the best men's and women's sprinters which for decades was closing has begun widening.
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Far from getting better, the gap between women and men in London is set to widen.
In a previous blog, How To Reduce Workplace Gender Segregation And Help Women Obtain Higher Paying Jobs, I discussed how workplace gender segregation holds women back from obtaining higher paying jobs that could help reduce the pay gap between women and men.
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However, there was a persistent gender gap between these young, still childless men and women.
The good news is that our daughters and their future daughters, when they enter the workforce, will continue to close the wage gap that currently exists between women and men.
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Big rises in the minimum wage, an increase in formal jobs and entry into fields long dominated by men all mean the gap between the pay of poorly educated women and that of their male peers has started to shrink.
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When men outnumber women, females marry younger and the age gap between spouses grows, the study, published in the journal Evolutionary Psychology, says.
Pollsters began to talk seriously about a gender gap in national elections in 1988 and, at times, the differences in voting and issues emphasis between men and women has often been striking.
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Literature suggests that the wage gap between genders is still alive and well, with the annual earnings of women only reaching about 77% that of men on average, even as women take less time off after having children.
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