#gender gap

Loganberry Books, in Ohio turned every book in their fiction room authored by a male backwards on the shelves to illustrate the fiction gender gap.

In an interview with Cleveland Scene, Logan said the display was “a metaphor of silencing the male voice—at least for this month.”

The global gender gap will take more than 100 years to close — here are the countries with the highest and lowest gender gap around the world

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I mean…

So disingenuous, and what kind of jobs do black women on average get into?
If a work at a bank and my Friend is an engineer , I think is pretty safe to assume that my engineer friend will be earning more than me in a lifetime.
You could do this wage gap study with every race group and there’s always gonna be differences. Asian males earn more then white males on average. Is there racial inequality? Asian privilege?

The bigger question is what is it about society that makes your friend more likely to be an engineer. It’s extremely dismissive to ignore the unearned wealth of one group and sabotage of another.

I mean…

What is Motherhood Penalty, and how does it contribute to gender pay gap?
If your company doesn’t correct what they are doing that is discriminatory toward you as a result of your pregnancy, which is inseparable from who you are as a woman obviously, you wanna be in a position where they would have to make you happy in the separation. If you have to get a divorce from your company, you want to be able to leave with your head held high, and your shoulders squared. And if you need assistance, with your particular sex-based workplace challenge, particularly, as it relates to pregnancy, give us a call at Women’s Rights at the Workplace.

Since the dawn of time, or at least the dawn of the GPA, high school students have been hearing that grades matter. Now, a University of Miami study backs up that parental talking point: The better your GPA, the higher your income is likely to be 10 years after graduation.

But as @think-progress points out, this doesn’t mean that girls with good grades earn more than boys with mediocre ones.Quite the contrary, in fact:

A woman who got a 4.0 GPA in high school will only be worth about as much, income-wise, as a man who got a 2.0. A woman with a 2.0 average will make about as much as a man with a 0 GPA.

Other depressing findings: Girls have significantly higher average GPAs, but “men will still end up having significantly higher income later on,” Think Progress says.

And the GPA-gender wage gap continues through college and grad school:

A woman who is one credential ahead of a man will always be worth less in terms of income: a woman with an associate’s degree makes less than a man with a vocational degree, a woman with a bachelor’s makes less than a man with an associate’s, and a woman with an advanced degree makes less than a man with a bachelor’s. Even among recent college graduates with the same grades, majors, and career fields, men will make more in their first jobs.

(Chart via U of Miami)

The NYTimes’ The Upshot takes a look at the behavior gap between boys and girls and how it plays out in the sputtering economy:

By kindergarten, girls are substantially more attentive, better behaved, more sensitive, more persistent, more flexible and more independent than boys, according to a new paper from Third Way, a Washington research group. The gap grows over the course of elementary school and feeds into academic gaps between the sexes. By eighth grade, 48 percent of girls receive a mix of A’s and B’s or better. Only 31 percent of boys do.

Andin an economy that rewards knowledge, the academic struggles of boys turn into economic struggles. Men’s wages are stagnating. Men are much more likely to be idle — neither working, looking for work nor caring for family — than they once were and much more likely to be idle than women.

How, then, do we account for persistent gender gaps in the workplace that continue to favor men, despite the academic gap that favors girls? The Upshot’s David Leonhardt explains what he thinks is going on:

The problems that stem from gender have become double-edged. The old forms of sexism, while greatly diminished, still constrain women. The job market exacts harsh financial and career penalties on anyone who decides to work part time or take time off, and the workers who do so are overwhelmingly female. …

But men have their own challenges. As the economy continues to shift away from brawn and toward brains, many men have struggled with the transition.

There’s a significant teenage gender gap in earning, spending, saving, and planning for the future, according to the 2014 Teens and Personal Finance Survey byJunior Achievement and the Allstate Foundation. think-progress takes a deeper look at the study here.