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Title: Is Teaching More Girls More Math the Key to Higher Wages?

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Publication Year: 2001

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Abstract: In this chapter we describe what is known about the complex relationships between gender, math, and labor market outcomes. We perform a simulation showing that U.S. women would fare somewhat better if they knew as much math as men. We then describe how occupational structures have changed over the past 30 years, as gender differences in mathematics education have decreased, and as other barriers to the career development of women have fallen. We conclude that continued improvement of gender equity in math education is likely to have modest effects on income but that other policies have a greater potential to improve the economic well-being of U.S. women.

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Authors: Weinberger, Catherine J.

Editors: Mary C. King,

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Volume Title: Squaring Up: Policy Strategies to Raise Women's Incomes in the United States

Publisher: The University of Michigan Press

Publisher Location: Ann Arbor

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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