Economic inequality is becoming more gender neutral

Washington

EVERYONE knows that economic inequality has increased dramatically since the 1970s, and this has created a new cottage industry: dissecting "the top one per cent". We now have a study from three economists that broadens what we know about these top earners. The study's biggest news: economic inequality is becoming more gender neutral.

Go back to the early 1980s, and almost no women were in the top one per cent. Now there are lots, says the study, though women's representation still remains well below their overall share in the workforce, about half in 2012.