Purpose This paper aims to shed light on gender inequality in Nigeria exploring new available data. It makes a case for … direction of gender inequality and show the pattern of inequality. Also, sectoral trends are obtained by analyzing and examining … gender inequality is more pronounced across the region, location and in some sectors of employment than the others …

increasing emphasis in recent years on national-rather than intergroup-inequality, exclusion of low-income households, and gender … disparity. Official statistics show steeply declining household income inequality in recent years, and a marginal gender wage … in official sources. On gender inequality, women's rapidly increased educational attainment and steadily rising labour …

2016, there was an average gender pay gap of 30 percent in gross hourly earnings. If gender-specific differences in … experience explains the gender pay gap to almost a quarter according to the present study based on data from the Socio …-Economic Panel (Sozio-ökonomisches Panel, SOEP). In order to reduce the gender pay gap, measures are needed to counteract the large …