What women do

摘要

"MTEN are finished." That was the pro- position in a debate at New York University (nyu) on September 20th. Hardly. A World Bank report published the day before* finds that, although particular groups of ill-educated young men are doing badly, and although women's lives have improved a lot in the past 20 years, sexual inequality at work is remarkably stubborn. Globally, women earn 10-30% less than men. They are also concentrated in "women's" jobs. Annoyingly, economic growth does not seem to narrow the gap.