Women moved in large numbers into previous male bastions — especially professions like medicine and law — during the last decades of the 20th century. The gender pay gap remains and is shrinking more slowly. Feminist economists such as Marilyn Power, Ellen Mutari and Deborah M. Figart have examined the gender pay gap and found that wage setting procedures are not primarily driven by market forces, but instead by the power of actors, cultural understandings of the value of work and what constitutes a proper living, and social gender norms. Consequently, they assert that economic models must take these typically exogenous variables into account.
Women moved in large numbers into previous male bastions — especially professions like medicine and law — during the last decades of the 20th century The gender pay gap remains and is shrinking more slowly. Feminist economists such as Marilyn .Power, Ellen Mutari and Deborah M Figart have examined the gender pay gap and found that wage setting procedures are not primarily driven by market forces, but instead by the power of actors cultural understandings of the value of work and what constitutes a proper living and social gender norms. Consequently, they assert that economic models must take these typically exogenous vari.ables into account