The high-tech boom of the last two decades overlapped with increasing wage inequalities between men and women in the United States. The extraordinary growth of high-tech industries increased the demand for college-educated workers, thus pushing up their wages. However, these industries tended to employ mainly skilled men, so similarly qualified women may have been left out of the employment and...

BACKGROUND In all OECD countries, there is a trend to increasing patients' copayments in order to balance rising overall health-care costs. This systematic review focuses on inequalities concerning the amount of out-of-pocket payments (OOPP) associated with income, education or gender in the Elderly aged 65+. METHODS Based on an online search (PubMed), 29 studies providing information on OOPP...

Bolivia Ecuador Guatemala Variables Mean Std. Dev Mean Std. Dev Mean Std. Dev Income per capita 889.29 (897.40) 240.23 (234.30) 7153.08 (7976) Age 39.86 (11.77) 42.59 (11.77) 39.34 (11.65) Male 0.63 (0.48 ) 0.65 (0.47) 0.70 (0.46) Indigenous 0.63 (0.48 ) 0.07 (0.26 ) 0.35 (0.47) Urban households 0.53 (0.50 ) 0.60 (0.49 ) 0.54 (0.50) Primary education 0.55 (0.50 ) 0.52 (0.50 ) 0.75 (0.43) Second...

background: current evidence consistently confirm inequalities in health status among socioeconomic groups, gender, ethnicity, geographical area and other social determinants of health (sdh), which adversely influence health of the population. sdh refer to a wide range of factors not limited to social component, but also involve economic, cultural, educational, political or environmental proble...

Gender inequalities in health have been widely described, but few studies have examined the upstream sources of these inequalities in health. The objectives of this review are 1) to identify empirical papers that assessed the effect of gender equality policies on gender inequalities in health or on women's health by using between-country (or administrative units within a country) comparisons an...

Major strides have been made regarding educational and occupational opportunities for women. Yet women continue to be paid less than men, even for doing the same task. Furthermore, men and women tend to pursue different subject courses and occupations, with women being under-represented in certain fields, especially science, technology, engineering and maths. This is thus not the time to become...

Many studies find that gender-based inequalities in education reduce economic growth, because such inequalities decrease the overall human capital available within the country. Notwithstanding the methodological limitations alluded to earlier, Morrison, Raju, and Sinha (2007) report striking findings from work undertaken by Klasen (2002). Klasen estimates the effect of the gender gap in years o...