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April 2012

Women’s employment, education, and the gender gap in 17 countries

Paula England, Janet Gornick, Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer

Data from the Luxembourg Income Study show that, among married or cohabiting mothers, better educated women are more likely to be employed; gender inequality in annual earnings is thus less extreme among the well educated than among those with less education, driven largely by educated women's higher employment.

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Women’s employment, education, and the gender gap in 17 countries

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