Gender pay gap in corporate America twitter.com/BuzzFeedAndrew… http://t.co/AOFxcUQ8Rk—
Charts and Maps (@ChartsandMaps) April 12, 2015
Why did the top 1% only pick on men when they increased inequality over recent decades?
06 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, unions Tags: gender wage gap, middle class stagnation, reversing gender gap, superstar wages, superstars, top 1%, wage stagnation
Male labour force participation has been in a long-term decline
24 May 2015 Leave a comment
in gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, unemployment Tags: labour demographics, labour force participation, male labour force participation, reversing gender gap
NEWS FLASH: The Labor Force Participation Rate for Men Has Been Steadily Trending Downward for the last 67 Years! http://t.co/N66WJJnHsF—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) May 08, 2015
Another gender gap that dare not mention its name
11 May 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: educational attainment, gender wage gap, reversing gender gap
Prediction: No commencement speaker will mention the huge ‘degree gap’ favoring women. ow.ly/MCiAm http://t.co/kzzNagctAk—
(@AEI) May 06, 2015
There are big differences in part-time employment rates across countries
06 May 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, part-time employment, reversing gender gap
Gender & #jobs: pretty clear who's working only part-time. Follow @OECDlive & #gender tomorrow bit.ly/1BCpQOH http://t.co/arzboo6udl—
(@OECD) March 03, 2015
Women are winning the human capital race | Kevin M. Murphy and Robert H. Topel
04 May 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, reversing gender gap
Why have women outpaced men? There’s little cognitive difference between the sexes, and males do better on standardized tests.
But Murphy, Becker, and Hubbard argue that women tend to have better “non-cognitive skills” than men do. Those personal skills and character traits such as persistence, self-control, and conscientiousness may help women excel academically and stay in school until they graduate.
The academic achievement gap actually starts before college: 25 percent more females than males took high-school advanced-placement tests in 2010, the Cleveland Fed economists find.
“There is a substantial gap between the measured high school performance of males and females,” Topel and Murphy write in a 2014 study, noting that female graduating high school seniors have, as a group, higher grade point averages than their male counterparts. “This high school gender gap in academic performance persists in the population that continues on to college.”
via Women are winning the human capital race | The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
The wage stagnation that dare not speak its name
30 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: gender analysis, gender wage gap, media bias, reversing gender gap, wage stagnation
But why would girls want to sit in a corner playing chess?
20 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: chess, economics of personality traits, lost boys, reversing gender gap
For a logical thinker, chess grandmaster Nigel Short missed the obvious move. Teenage girls have better things to do with their talents and in particular their superior reading skills than gaze over a chess board.
The 30 point advantage that 15-year-old girls have in reading scores in the PISA test – see the chart below – is equal to an extra six months schooling. Six months extra schooling explains many a gender and ethnic wage gap.
Having being a member of a few chess clubs, and run chess clubs and large chess tournaments, there are an unusual number of oddballs, eccentrics and mentally ill people who play chess.
The systematic evidence of a greater incidence of learning disorders, Asperger’s syndrome as well is bipolar disorders among teenage boys all encourage teenage boys to focus on chess if only to give an outlet to their obsessive behaviours.
It is for the same reason that socially awkward teenage boys may be attracted to computer programming if they have various obsessional disorders.
Who-d a-Thunk It? The new OECD Report on 15-Year Olds in 60+ Countries Finds Significant Gender Differences? http://t.co/X2rGVygPwF—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) March 11, 2015
The raw gender wage gap conceals more than it reveals
15 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, reversing gender gap
FACTS #EqualPayDay http://t.co/KoWZeiIShQ—
Meninist (@MeninistTweet) April 14, 2015
Yet another gender gap that dare not speak its name
11 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply Tags: ageing society, economics of retirement, labour demographics, reversing gender gap
Another gender wage gap that dare not speak its name
09 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: compensating differentials, gender wage gap, part-time work, reversing gender gap
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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via nces.ed.gov
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
Still further evidence of the reversing gender gap, this time in education
20 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics Tags: gender wage gap, reversing gender gap
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