The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development … graduation, employment, or income for men, relative to women. We do find that father absence is more strongly associated with men … produces a similar pattern of results. We conclude that focusing on gender differences in behavior in school may not lead to …

Comparative sociologists have long considered occupations to be a key source of inequality. However, data constraints …

research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond …

We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or … across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the … 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …