Gender Gap

Gender Gap

1. Advances in participation among women occurred at different times for different demographic groups.

2. Ratio of female earnings to male earnings has increased since the 1980s.

   • Women earnings rose,

3. During Industrial Revolution, the ratio of female-to-male rose from 0.3 to 0.5

   • In terns of agricultural economy

4. Causes that effect earnings between men and women include:

   • Education
   • Job experience
   • Hours of work

5. Decrease in gender gap in earnings was due to increase in the productive attributions of women relative to men

   • For both men and women, earnings decreases with age and rises with education

6. Discrimination

   • However, it has reduced in developed countries but still strong in developing countries

7. Another effect would be employment narrowing

   • People choose to hire men over women
     • Reason would be because old mentality, men work harder

8. Greater gender equality in the 1980s was remarkable

   • increased opportunity for younger and more educated women