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Gender gap

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A gender gap, a relative disparity between people of different genders, is reflected in a variety of sectors in many societies. There exist differences between men and women as reflected in social, political, intellectual, cultural, scientific and economic attainments or attitudes.[1]

Examples include:

  • Gender pay gap, the average difference between the remuneration for men and women who are working, with women often paid less than men
  • Gender gap in Pakistan, relative disparity between male and female citizens in Pakistan in terms of legal discrimination, economic inequality, and cultural attitudes
  • Gender gap in education, sex discrimination in the education system affecting both men and women during and after their educational experiences
  • Gender differences in suicide, different rates of completed suicides and suicidal behavior; women more often have suicidal thoughts, but men commit suicide more frequently
  • Wikipedia gender gap, the fact that Wikipedia contributors are mostly male, relatively few biographies are about women, and topics of interest to women are less well-covered
  • Voting gender gap in the United States, the difference in the percentage of men and women voting for a particular candidate in US elections
  • Orgasm gap, a social phenomenon referring to the general disparity between heterosexual men and women in terms of sexual satisfaction
  • Digital Gender Gaps,[2] such as a gender rating gap in online reviews, where women's average submitted star rating is higher than men's.[3]

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References

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  1. ^ "What is the gender gap (and why is it getting wider)?". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
  2. ^ De Andrés del Campo, Susana; Collado Alonso, Rocío; García-Lomas Taboada, José Ignacio (2020-06-19). "Brechas digitales de género. Una revisión del concepto". Etic@net. Revista científica electrónica de Educación y Comunicación en la Sociedad del Conocimiento. 20 (1): 34–58. doi:10.30827/eticanet.v20i1.15521. ISSN 1695-324X.
  3. ^ Bayerl, Andreas; Dover, Yaniv; Riemer, Hila; Shapira, Daniel (2024). "Gender rating gap in online reviews". Nature Human Behaviour. doi:10.1038/s41562-024-02003-6.
  4. ^ Ford, H., & Wajcman, J. (2017). ‘Anyone can edit’, not everyone does: Wikipedia’s infrastructure and the gender gap. Social Studies of Science, 47(4), 511-527. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312717692172