Authors: Paula England, Janet C. Gornick, and Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer

Publication: Monthly Labor Review. pp. 20-29

Date: April 2012

Abstract: 

Data from the Luxembourg Income Study show that, among married or cohabiting mothers, better educated women are more likely to be employed; gender inequality in annual earnings is thus less extreme among the well educated than among those with less education, driven largely by educated women’s higher employment.

Link: Women’s Employment, Education, and the Gender Gap in 17 Countries (PDF)