Gender gap

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A gender gap, a relative disparity between people of different genders, is reflected in a variety of sectors in many societies. There exist differences between men and women as reflected in social, political, intellectual, cultural, scientific and economic attainments or attitudes.{{Cite web|title=What is the gender gap (and why is it getting wider)?|url=https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/11/the-gender-gap-actually-got-worse-in-2017/|access-date=2020-10-27|publisher=World Economic Forum|language=en}}

Examples include:

• Gender pay gap, the average difference between the remuneration for men and women who are working, with women often paid less than men
• Gender pay gap in Australia, a persistent and sometimes rising gender pay gap in Australia
• Gender pay gap in India, difference in earnings between women and men in the paid employment and labor market in India
• Gender pay gap in New Zealand, the difference in the median hourly wages of men and women in New Zealand
• Gender pay gap in Russia, occupational segregation by gender and labor market discrimination in Russia, especially since 1991

• Gender pay gap in the United States, ratio of female-to-male median or average earnings among full-time workers in the US
• Gender pay gap in the United States tech industry, divergence in pay between men and women who work in areas such as software engineering
• Gender pay gap in sports, unequal pay in sports, particularly for female athletes who do not receive equal revenue, depending on the sport
• Gender gap in Pakistan, relative disparity between male and female citizens in Pakistan in terms of legal discrimination, economic inequality, and cultural attitudes
• Gender gap in education, sex discrimination in the education system affecting both men and women during and after their educational experiences
• Gender gaps in mathematics and reading, the finding that on average boys and men exceed in mathematics, while girls and women exceed in reading skills
• Gender differences in suicide, different rates of completed suicides and suicidal behavior; women more often have suicidal thoughts, but men commit suicide more frequently
• Wikipedia gender gap, the fact that Wikipedia contributors are mostly male, relatively few biographies are about women, and topics of interest to women are less well-covered
• Voting gender gap in the United States, the difference in the percentage of men and women voting for a particular candidate in US elections
• Orgasm gap, a social phenomenon referring to the general disparity between heterosexual men and women in terms of sexual satisfaction
• Digital Gender Gaps,{{Cite journal |last=De Andrés del Campo |first=Susana |last2=Collado Alonso |first2=Rocío |last3=García-Lomas Taboada |first3=José Ignacio |date=2020-06-19 |title=Brechas digitales de género. Una revisión del concepto |url=https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/eticanet/article/view/15521 |journal=Etic@net. Revista científica electrónica de Educación y Comunicación en la Sociedad del Conocimiento |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=34–58 |doi=10.30827/eticanet.v20i1.15521 |issn=1695-324X|doi-access=free }} such as a gender rating gap in online reviews, where women's average submitted star rating is higher than men's.{{cite journal | last1=Bayerl | first1=Andreas | last2=Dover | first2=Yaniv | last3=Riemer | first3=Hila | last4=Shapira | first4=Daniel |title=Gender rating gap in online reviews |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02003-6 | journal=Nature Human Behaviour | year=2024 | doi=10.1038/s41562-024-02003-6| url-access=subscription }}