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...debt and reinforcing social supports." Santini adds: "You have to go back decades to see a first-round result like Sarkozy's. If he's a 'divider,' he's done pretty well." Royal, meanwhile, desperately needs to entice Bayrou's voters if she's to close the 5% gap between her and Sarkozy. She will no doubt try to make the most of her softer image, which may seem particularly welcome to voters wary of Sarkozy's daunting and sometimes disconcerting intensity. She will also need to ramp up her courtship of Bayrou's lieutenants, which has included a promise...
...about $67 million in revenue. Commissioner Carolyn Bivens--the first woman to hold the job--hasn't been afraid to take some divots out of the LPGA's old business plan. She's reorganized the tournaments, the staff, even the television production. The goal: close the purse and popularity gap with the men's tour (PGA), as women have done in professional tennis...
...were the ones who had the elastic labor supply,” she says. “If things aren’t changing, they’re not that interesting.”Goldin made her name with the 1990 publication of “Understanding the Gender Gap,” in which she argued that the increasing participation of women in the workforce was a slow and historical process not dependent on the advances of any one generation.She followed this up with three papers studying the positive effect of the birth control pill on women?...
...study found that not only do women earn 80 percent of what recent male graduates make one year out of college, but that gap widens by 11 percentage points 10 years after graduation, with women earning 69 percent of what men earn. A disparity still exists, albeit smaller, after controlling for occupational or lifestyle factors affecting earnings...
...salary gap persists between men and women from the same major...