Gender inequality

The higher college completion rates and labor market participation rates for women and the narrowing of the gender pay gap as well as the erosion of the traditional male-breadwinner model have been remarkable advances in many societies over the past decades. However, since the mid-1990s the movement toward gender pay equity has slowed down and, in some countries, even stalled. Women consistently work less in the labor market and earn lower wages than men and in some industries, gender inequality has even risen, emphasizing the need to focus on how new societal developments affect gender inequality.

In our research, we mainly focus on gender inequalities in the labor market and how these are affected by macro-societal developments, such as technological change or the COVID-19 pandemic, and meso-level institutions, such as workplaces. As part of the GenDiT project[Link to GenDiT], we aim to answer how schools contribute to gender differences in computer-related skills and choices for fields-of-study and how technological change and digitalization affects gender inequalities more broadly.

Publications

Reichelt, Malte, Kinga Makovi and Anahit Sarsgyan. “The impact of COVID-19 on gender inequality in the labor market and gender-role attitudes”. European Societies, 23(sup1), S228-S245
Huffman, Matt; Joseph King and Malte Reichelt. 2017. “Equality for Whom? Organizational Policies and the Gender Gap across the German Earnings Distribution”. ILR Review, 70(1), 16-41.