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Difference in PISA scores of 15-year-old female and male students on reading literacy: 2012
06 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
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Single motherhood compared internationally
05 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
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Trends in bachelor degrees conferred on women since 1970
04 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, occupational choice Tags: compensating differentials, gender wage gap, reversing gender gap, STEM
A lot of women did information science in the 70s, close to 40% of all information science majors, then women moved away to invest in other majors. It would be laughable to suggest that information science was more welcoming to women in the 1970s but not now. Clearly, a third set of factors is at play unrelated to hostile working environments. Similarly, a large number of women did maths and statistics then that trend petered out in the 1980s.
Hillary Clinton says women earned 2x CS degrees in the '80s as today. Mostly True: politifact.com/truth-o-meter/… #dataviz http://t.co/Zg82d8ZfQh—
Randy Olson (@randal_olson) March 03, 2015
The impact of US 1996 welfare reforms on single mothers’ employment
03 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in gender, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: 1996 US welfare reforms, female labour force participation, single parents
Putting U.S. Labor Force Participation in Context
02 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in gender, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA Tags: cross-country comparisons, female labour force participation, labour force participation, male labour force dissipation
Claudia Goldin on Gender Equality in the Labor Market
02 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: Claudia Goldin, gender wage gap, wage gaps
Are men inferior to women? Let’s check the data
01 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
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Guess Who Cares For Young Adults When They Move Back Home | FiveThirtyEight
30 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
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Poverty and family structure in America
28 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
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Is the gender wage gap in New Zealand 6% or 9.9%?
26 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
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The OECD puts the gender wage gap in New Zealand at about 6% for full-time employees on an hourly basis when measured using median earnings.
The Ministry of Women’s Affairs puts that gender wage gap estimate at 9.9% by measuring median hourly earnings, but the Ministry includes both full-time and part-time employees.
Conflating full-time and part-time earnings when measuring wage gaps is unwise. The level of compensating differentials in full-time and part-time jobs differ. More of the net pay package of a part-time job would be convenience and flexibility. A full-time job tends to indicate greater commitment to the labour force day in day out and less interest in flexibility and time off during the week.
Women who worked 34 hours or less per week earned 5.6% more than their male counterparts
26 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
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The gender gap that has no name
26 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, health and safety, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: fatal occupational injuries, gender fatalities gap, workplace injuries
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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