1. Women and Gender Inequality
... . Especially with the Master's degree, which surprised me, where in 1960 men earned 51 Master's, as opposed to women's 24. By 2001 men earned 161, as opposed to women's 221! Another statistic that greatly surprised me was how many women are now in the labor force. Within a half a century, the numbers have more than doubled, in many age groups. Figure 12-1 shows the percentage ... tripled the percentage from 1900 through to 1998, and went from 20% to almost 60%, I could hardly believe it. And women as a total percentage of the labor force have more than doubled from 1900 through to 1998, ...
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