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It would be interesting to see a graph over median wage similar to the one in the article, but with separate lines per gender. > very large number of women ent

by belorn 8y ago

It would be interesting to see a graph over median wage similar to the one in the article, but with separate lines per gender. > very large number of women entered the full time workforce and took on higher level positions between 1970 and 2017 If we look at US numbers that actually not the case. As I wrote in an other comment, between 1940 and 1970 it doubled from around 25% to around 50%, but from 1970 to 2017 it only went up to current 55%. It actually went down from 2000 which topped at 59%.

mbell 8y ago
> If we look at US numbers that actually not the case. As I wrote in an other comment, between 1940 and 1970 it doubled from around 25% to around 50%, but from 1970 to 2017 it only went up to current 55%. It actually went down from 2000 which topped at 59%. Using the data source provided from the post I replied to (table P-36) the number of full time, year-round workers looks like this: Men: 36.1M (1970) => 66.4M (2017) increase of 84% Women: 15.5M (1970) => 44.4M (2017) increase of 186% So within this group we went from ~30% female to ~40% female and I would venture that the types of employment accessible to women in this time frame has also expanded quite a bit, though I have no immediate data handy to back this up. Without digging into your numbers, I suspect they may come from total labor force participation which is a notably different metric.