Tackling the Global Profitarchy : Gender and the Choice of Business Sector

Tackling the Global Profitarchy : Gender and the Choice of Business Sector

Sectoral segregation is often used to explain a large part of a well-documented gender earnings gap in business profits. Women tend to sort into different sectors than men, and the sectors dominated by women tend to be less profitable. This paper i...

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Main Authors: Goldstein, Markus, Gonzalez Martinez, Paula, Papineni, Sreelakshmi
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:
SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES
MICROENTERPRISES
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
GENDER
GENDER GAP
GENDER EARNINGS GAP
AFRICA GENDER POLICY
GENDER INNOVATION LAB
WOMEN AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/734371558715932769/Tackling-the-Global-Profitarchy-Gender-and-the-Choice-of-Business-Sector
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31747

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/734371558715932769/Tackling-the-Global-Profitarchy-Gender-and-the-Choice-of-Business-Sector
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31747

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