Women and men wage gap has been narrowing since 1980. The reason that the gap have been decreasing is because women invest themselves more compare to the early 20th century. Women participated in the High School Movement that a lot of them went to high school and college. In 1980s, women were graduating from college in the same numbers as men. Due to the high demand for office workers and women have comparative advantage on knowledge work, wage for women increase. Besides, there is better contraceptive technology such as birth control pill. It contributes an increase of women graduate in college since they can delay their marriage and have a child later in their lives.
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