gender gap

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English

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Noun

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gender gap (plural gender gaps)

  1. A measurable difference between the pay, status, political preferences etc. of men and women.
    Surveys show a gender gap with women favoring Democrats 12 percent more than men.
    • 1982 December 10, Ann Hulbert, “What Gender Gap?”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      But in the light of last month's election returns, the gender gap looks less like a striking electoral phenomenon and more like a pollster's product. To judge from the way women actually voted, they do not compose a voting bloc with especially compassionate clout.
    • 2005 May 17, “Nordic gender gap is thinner”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
      The report found that no countries had managed to eliminate a gender gap entirely, but the Nordic countries were the best at narrowing it and providing a workable model for the rest of the world.

Descendants

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  • German: Gendergap
  • Italian: gender gap

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English gender gap.

Noun

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gender gap m (invariable)

  1. gender gap