Figure 1: % of students achieving a proficiency level below 2 in reading by gender, USA, UK, New Zealand, Japan, Canada and Australia, 2012
Source: OECD StatExtract.
Low performers in reading by gender, USA, UK, Japan, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
15 Jul 2015 1 Comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics Tags: cognitive psychology, education, lost boys, PISA, Psychology, reversing gender gap
Gender gaps and reversing gender gaps in education
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Minimum salaries of American professional sports players and media coverage
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in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, gender, industrial organisation, labour economics, occupational choice, sports economics, survivor principle Tags: gender wage gap, media bias, sex discrimination, superstar wages, superstars
Females/male earnings ratio by partner status and motherhood – USA, UK, Canada
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Figure 1: Female/male earnings ratio by partner status and motherhood, 2004 
Source: LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg – Wave VI; individuals with positive earnings only. .
Why gender analysis is essential to empirical labour economics
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U.S. wage growth doesn't look as weak when you account for benefit costs covered by employers on.wsj.com/1JJ2EmV http://t.co/s0tJutTjBy—
Nick Timiraos (@NickTimiraos) July 06, 2015
Average weekly working hours by gender and presence of children, Canada, UK and USA
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Figure 1: average weekly working hours for Current or Last Job(s) Held aged 20-54 by gender, 2004
Gender wage gap, USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand since 2001
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Figure 1: Gender wage gap (unadjusted % difference between median wages of male and female full-time employees)
Source: OECD StatExtract.
Top performers in science by gender, USA, UK, Japan, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
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Why are Japanese 15-year-old girls as good at science as teenagers anywhere else in the world?
Figure 1: Percentage achieving the proficiency level 5 or higher in sciences by gender, USA, UK, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, 2012
Source: OECD StatExtract.
Top performers in reading by gender, USA, UK, Japan, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
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Figure 1: percentage achieving the proficiency level 5 or higher in reading by gender, USA, UK, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, 2012
Source: OECD StatExtract.
Humanities, arts, computing and engineering degrees awarded by gender, USA, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
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Figure 1: Percentage of tertiary degrees awarded in humanities and arts qualifications by gender, 2012
Source: OECD Education Database.
Figure 2: percentage of tertiary degrees awarded in computing qualifications by gender, 2012
Source: OECD Education Database.
Figure 3: Percentage of tertiary degrees awarded in engineering, manufacturing and construction qualifications by gender, 2012
Source: OECD Education Database.
The reverse gender tertiary education gap for ages 25–34, Anglo-Saxon countries
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Figure 1: % population who have attained at least tertiary education, age 25 – 34 by gender (2012)
Source: OECD family database.
Figure 2 shows that the stark reversing of the gender gap in educational attainment shown in figure 1 was somewhat more recent in the US, UK and to a lesser extent in Ireland and Australia. In the UK and USA, educational attainment by gender was pretty equal for the earlier generation of graduates as compared to today’s 25 to 34-year-olds. The reversing of the gender gap in educational attainment dates back several decades in Canada and New Zealand.
Figure 2: % population who have attained at least tertiary education, age 45 – 54 by gender (2012)
Source: OECD family database.
Gender wage gaps for tertiary educated and high school educated full-time workers in Anglo-Saxon countries
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In another blow for the inherent inequality of bargaining power between workers and employers, and for the patriarchy, the wage gap is larger for tertiary educated female full-time workers aged 35-44 than it is for female full-time workers who just finished high school.
Figure 1: gender wage gap for mean full-time, full-year earnings for tertiary educated workers aged 35 – 44, 2012
Source: OECD family database.
To add insult to injury, the gender wage gap further tertiary educated female workers is quite large in the USA but quite small for high school graduates.
Figure 2: gender wage gap for mean full-time, full-year earnings for below upper secondary educated workers aged 35 – 44, 2012
Source: OECD family database.
Canada seems to be a bit of a patriarchal hellhole while New Zealand does pretty well in gender wage gaps.
The gender gap in figure 1 and in figure 2 are unadjusted and calculated as the difference between mean average annual full-time, full-year earnings of men and of women as a percentage of men’s earnings.
There is rampant height discrimination in the movie business?
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in discrimination, industrial organisation, labour economics, movies, survivor principle Tags: competition as a discovery procedure, height discrimination, Hollywood economics, market selection, statistical discrimination, The meaning of competition
Spare me the conspiracy theories. When an actor or actress walks into a scene, the first impression of the audience is not supposed to be about how tall they are or how they differ in height from those already on the stage or film set.
This casting decision can be deliberate or simply that actors who do not differ as much in height seem to work well together and have more successful careers because of better rapport.
What are the Anglo-Saxon gender wage gaps for the bottom, median and top deciles?
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If there is an inherent inequality of bargaining power between workers and employers, as we are so frequently lectured by those in the self appointed know, why is the gender wage gap so small at the bottom of the earnings distribution?
Figure 1: % Gender gap in full-time earnings at the bottom decile of earnings distribution, 2012
Source: OECD family database
Figure 2: % Gender gap in full-time earnings at the median decile of earnings distribution, 2012
Source: OECD family database
Figure 3: % Gender gap in full-time earnings at the top decile of earnings distribution, 2012
Source: OECD family database
The gender gaps are unadjusted, and are calculated as the difference between the earnings of men and women for their respective earnings percentile.
How the average day of American mums and dads has changed since 1965
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#Dailychart: How the average day of American mums and dads has changed since 1965 econ.st/1Hi43yt http://t.co/tY5DSpdVKN—
The Economist (@EconBizFin) June 08, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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