The mission of the Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality is to shed light on the cultural, social, economic, and political forces that maintain and break down gender inequalities in postindustrial societies.
It's deceptively easy to calculate how much—or how little—women in the United States earn relative to men. “You take everyone who’s working 35 or more hours a week for the full year, find the median for women, find the median for men, and divide,” says Lee professor of economics Claudia Goldin, explaining how to arrive at the ratio repeated by public
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