Gender Inequality In Wages

"Gender imbalances, and their resulting economic consequences, are still startlingly visible everywhere, from the developed world to emerging markets," writes Saadia Zahidi on GPS. "In Brazil, more women attend university than men, but women earn only a third of what men make for the same job. In the United Arab Emirates, three times as many women go to university as men, but half as many women participate in the labor force. Across Europe, women outperform men academically and enter the workforce in similar numbers, but occupy less than 15 percent of board positions. In Pakistan, where I grew up, a girl has only a 29 percent chance of making it into secondary school, compared to 38 percent for a boy."

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/25/when-gender-inequality-is-good-economics/