>Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>
>>Of course, an alternative explantion is that increased competition may hurt
>>men relative to women. Gender gap may be narrowed by either increasing the
>>wages of women or decreasing wages of men, I the authors do not indicate
>>that they accounted for which of these two led to the reduction of gender gap.
>Ha yes, ain't that the truth. Yeah, I thought the (slowly) shrinking gender
>gap was the result of falling male real wages and rising female. But I
>haven't read this paper yet.
A number of articles have been posted in the Women In Science and Engineering list ascribing a significant percentage of the delta to declining wages for men. I believe Chomsky and other observers say the same thing.
Margaret