The gender wealth gap reveals more about inequality than the pay gap

Measuring progress in women’s economic status by income alone underestimates the extent of the financial disparities that remain between the sexes

 
Men tend to have better access to the ‘wealth escalator’, which is a combination of advantages that helps translate income into wealth, including employment-related fringe benefits, favourable tax codes, and valuable government benefits
Men tend to have better access to the ‘wealth escalator’, which is a combination of advantages that helps translate income into wealth, including employment-related fringe benefits, favourable tax codes, and valuable government benefits 
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Author: Kim Darrah

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