In this paper we analyse the reasons behind the evolution of the gender gap and wage inequality in South and East Asian …. During the second globalization era (in the years 1975-2000) different combinations of these variables in South and East … Asian and Latin American countries have had as a result the diminution of the gender gap. The main exception to this rule …

This paper considers a seeming disconnect between the consensus in policy circles that reducing gender inequalities is … policy circles) that gender inequalities are overemphasized. This latter view is not stated openly, it being politically … incorrect to do so, but is nevertheless present. In specific terms, there is a sense that gender inequalities are not large …