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everything
2013 Oct 25, 1:17am
everything
2013 Oct 25, 1:17am
I'd suggest that many of these women do not have to work so they go to university instead while the men are doing all the work as usual so don't go to the university. Men get paid more to support an entire family, it would only seem fair that he would be allowed to bring home enough to feed his family.
Here in the U.S. I do believe we got more women working than men.
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indigenous
2013 Oct 25, 1:48am
indigenous
2013 Oct 25, 1:48am
In the US this trope is not true. Statistically speaking women make the same money they choose not to work as much. Women who put in the same hours make the same money. Abroad (see what i did there) it may be different, with berkas, can't drive, or draconian treatment.
"Gender imbalances, and their resulting economic consequences, are still startlingly visible everywhere, from the developed world to emerging markets," writes Saadia Zahidi on GPS. "In Brazil, more women attend university than men, but women earn only a third of what men make for the same job. In the United Arab Emirates, three times as many women go to university as men, but half as many women participate in the labor force. Across Europe, women outperform men academically and enter the workforce in similar numbers, but occupy less than 15 percent of board positions. In Pakistan, where I grew up, a girl has only a 29 percent chance of making it into secondary school, compared to 38 percent for a boy."
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/25/when-gender-inequality-is-good-economics/