same time, India has one of the widest gender wage gaps in the world and women are less likely to be employed in the formal … advantage in services have the lowest gender wage gap, with women earning 24% less than their male counterpart, while women in … manufacturing earned on average 40% less than male workers. The Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition shows that the total gender wage gap in …

important contributing factors explaining the gender productivity gap are firm characteristics, such as firm size, age of the …