% women 25-34 & 45-54 with at least tertiary education, English-speaking countries, 2008

With 40 to 50% of women, and many more in Canada, now going on to tertiary education, claims such as recently by the OECD and IMF that there is problems of access to education as a driver of inequality seem even more doubtful.

Source: DOING BETTER FOR FAMILIES – OECD 2011, Figure Box 1.3.

Not only do women have to overcome the financing constraint on going onto higher education that so troubles the IMF and the OECD, women of today and yesterday must overcome the dead hand of patriarchy. They have the both the top 1% and all men scheming against them, apparently. Despite this double secret double conspiracy against them, the number of women going on to some form of tertiary education has increased rapidly within a generation from an already high base.

The dating gap on campus

Homicide rates for young American women by race since 1980

The crack cocaine epidemic in the USA in the late 1980s also appeared to lead to a spike in murders of young Black and Latina women.

Source: Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

No data was available on Asian female homicides aged 15 to 24. There is no data on Latino homicide rates prior to 1985.

The reversing gender gap in graduate education

Aggregate New Zealand non-European graduate human capital stock by sex, 1981-2001, $2001 billion



Aggregate New Zealand European human capital of graduates, 1981-2001

There was rapid growth in the human capital of graduates and postgraduates in New Zealand between 1981 and 2001 according to the census data. The growth in female human capital was particularly rapid and especially so at the postgraduate level.

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Source: Lˆe Thi. Vˆan Tr`ınh, Estimating the monetary value of the stock of human capital for New Zealand, thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury (September 2006).

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Source: Lˆe Thi. Vˆan Tr`ınh, Estimating the monetary value of the stock of human capital for New Zealand, thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury (September 2006).

@RichardvReeves Why did women get a pass on the great wage stagnation and exploitation by the top 1%?

Few labour markets statistics make much sense unless broken down by gender.

Wages growth is no exception with female wages growth quite good for a long period of time after the 1970s – a period in which male earnings stagnated.

The beginning of male wage stagnation seemed to coincide with the closing of the gender wage gap.

Presumably if men were previously profiting from patriarchy, that should have some implications for future wage growth and promotions for men as women catch up.

Presumably if men were previously profiting from patriarchy, that should have some implications for future wage growth for men as women catch up. Men lost the wage premium they previously earned from the sex discrimination directly in hiring, wage setting and promotions and investing in more education because they expected to be discriminated favourably at the expense of women.

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Not surprisingly the convergence in the male-female wage ratios started  in the 1970s which was the decade that male wage stagnation started.

The gender wage gap started converging again also pretty much in lockstep with the top 1% starting to grab higher and higher proportions of income.

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Source: Alvaredo, Facundo, Anthony B. Atkinson, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, The World Top Incomes Database.

The biggest #gendergap of them all

https://twitter.com/ONS/status/641642361664237569/photo/1

Girls on Film

https://twitter.com/paul1kirby/status/642813666249822208/photo/1

Mises on feminism

Trends in the British gender wage gap by age band

The UK gender pay gap begins at 30(ish)

Single motherhood and the feminisation of poverty

Vanishing effect of #religion on the labour market participation of European women

US Teen Pregnancy, Birth and Abortion Rates

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