INTRO / What is the gender gap?

In a first time, it is important to explain: “What’s the Gender gap?”. According to wiktionary it’s : “A measurable difference between the behaviors of men and women”And to supplement this definition an other source say that the gender gap is: “the difference that exists between males and females in access to some social good or benefit based solely on their difference in gender (a difference almost always in favor of men)”. For example, the gender gap in education refers to the increased likelihood of better educational opportunity and achievement for males than females in most societies.

In most of the societies, otherwise all, the socio reports or connections between women and men are largely hierarchical and thus uneven. We shall want for proof the official division of the work - beyond the purely biological roles within the home and within the official working population - without forgetting the discriminatory practices against the women in the other institutions. The women have fewer access facilities in the education than the men receive an uneven part of lands and have an access more limited to resources as the food and the health care.

I/ Economie and education

To illustrate this paragraph, I (m’appuie sur) the following graphic from the book of Hilary Lips ( Hilary is a professor of psychology, chair of the Psychology Department, and director of the Center for Gender Studies at Radford University).

The name of the book : “A New Psychology of Women: Gender, Culture and Ethnicity” and “of Sex and Gender: An Introduction”.

➢ Graphic 1: This graphic shows: What Difference Does Education Make?
There appears to be a gender-related wage gap in virtually every occupational category.
By example: With the similarly educated, woman earnings 76% (seventysix) of the wage of a man or for a professional degree she win only 60% of the wage of a man.
At the very highest levels of education, the gap is at its