May 12, 2006
Understanding the Economic Gender Gap by Looking at Assets, Not Income
THE FORTUNES OF WOMEN: In the United States in 2003, women earned 75.5 cents for every dollar earned by men. It is a statistic that no one particularly disputes.
Things get trickier, however, when scholars try to measure the wealth gap rather than the income gap. Estimating women's net wealth — pensions, real estate, and other assets — often requires looking under the hood of marriages and other household partnerships and making educated guesses about who actually
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