"Closing the gender pay gap begins with awareness and understanding of the state of the gap. This hybrid book that … serves as a resource for both the academic and corporate communities, builds the reader's awareness of the gender pay gap … the gender pay gap provides an excellent foundation in stating facts and inferences; yet, the reader is often left …

In all Western societies women earn lower wages on average than men. The gender wage gap has existed for many years … progress made by women in the labor market, and the characteristics and causes of remaining gender inequalities. It also covers … other dimensions of inequality and their interplay with gender, such as family formation, wellbeing, race, and immigrant …

The gender wage gap varies across countries. For example, among OECD nations women in Australia, Belgium, Italy and … important in gender wage gap studies that employ individual data. This paper explicitly concentrates on labor market … institutions that are related to female lifetime work that affect the gender wage gap across countries. Using ISSP (International …