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New thesis questions the explanations to gender wage gap
News: Apr 19, 2010
The gender wage gap is accounted for to a substantial degree by the sex composition of occupations. Charlotta Magnusson, at Stockholm University, examines the mechanisms that produce this pattern.
In her newly published doctoral thesis, Mind the Gap: Essays on Explanations of Gender Wage Inequality, in particular the theory of devaluation, currently the most widely accepted sociological explanation, is tested. The empirical findings, reported in three self-contained essays, question this line of explanation.
Read Mind the Gap: Essays on Explanations of Gender Wage Inequality at the website of Diva. (pdf)
See Charlotta Magnussons webpage at Stockholm Universitys website.