Economix: The Gender Wage Gap, Around the World
… Across industrialized countries, men’s median, full-time earnings were 17.6 percent higher than women’s. The biggest gender wage gap was in South Korea and Japan, where men earn wages more than 30 percent higher than women, and was smallest in Belgium, where the gap is 9.3 percent.
In the United States, the typical full-time female worker earns 19 percent less than the typical full-time male worker.
Much of this gap can be explained by the types of jobs women choose to go into (or, perhaps, the types of jobs that are available to them).
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