What Role Does Education Play in Improving Gender Equality?

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10.2991/978-94-6463-124-1_11How to use a DOI?

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Education; gender equality; female

Abstract

This paper illustrates how important education’s role is in improving gender equality. This work analyzes the phenomenon of gender inequality in the workplace and investigates the gender income gap, female participation ratio, and educational years in urban and rural areas data after 1986. Besides, this research. Hypothesizes that an increase in educational years raises female wages and the female employment rate will shorten the income gap. The controlled variables are the birth rate of males and females. As a result, the employment rate and women’s wage growth followed by increasing education years, and the income gap between males and females will decrease at the same time.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xiaoyu Wu
AU  - Chunlu Ji
AU  - Ruhan Xu
AU  - Yanting Liu
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/03/29
TI  - What Role Does Education Play in Improving Gender Equality?
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Big Data Economy and Information Management (BDEIM 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 83
EP  - 91
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-124-1_11
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-124-1_11
ID  - Wu2023
ER  -