Despite the evidence of female progress with regard to women’s role in the labor market, gender inequality remains. Women are still less likely to be employed than men, occupational gender segregation continues, and females continue to earn less than males. The gender wage gap remains wide in several occupational sectors, among which is the information technology (IT) sector. This paper focuses...

INTRODUCTION Major efforts have been made to improve the health care system in Hunan province, China. The aims of this study were to assess whether and to what extent these efforts have impacted on gender and regional disparities of Tuberculosis (TB) incidence in recent years, especially for less developed areas. METHODS We obtained data from the 2005-2009 China Information System for Disease...

Introduction/Main Objectives: This study discusses the three main aspects of inequality: level education attained, urban-rural area, and gender. Background Problems: Inequality is one fundamental economic problems in Indonesia that has potential to cause non-optimal distribution resources, instability, may even lead an crisis. Novelty: provide a new perspective on differences findings for gende...

This paper analyzes data from the 2005 population mini-census and prefecture-level statistics to investigate the trend in gender earnings inequality and the driving forces behind the trend in reform-era urban China. We pay special attention to the different impacts of marketization and economic development on gender earnings inequality. Cross-sectoral analyses show that the gender earnings gap ...

We study whether the gender performance gap is affected by the gender composition of teams. A real-effort experiment is employed with wages based either on the team’s performance, or on the outcome of a competition between teams. We find that, relative to a single-sex environment, gender diversity increases the gender performance gap with team pay whereas it decreases the gap with team competit...

Abstract Although it seems almost a stylized fact that females are less likely than males to start new ventures, closing this gender gap is essential foster sustainable economic growth. In study, we analyze whether inequality, as measured at the country level by World Economic Forum since 2006, associated with in entrepreneurship. By analyzing country-level information about inequality (97 coun...

Abstract Knowledge of the long relationship between gender equality and economic growth is hampered by lack information resources on various dimensions equality. This paper a first attempt to assess size gap investigate its with from historical perspective. Exploiting unique census-based dataset 86 French counties in mid-nineteenth century, I construct index measuring men women three critical a...