Women’s share of total labour income has rapidly increased in Latin America, North America and Western Europe.

Whereas in the Middle East and North Africa, men have continue to earn about 85% of total labour income. No change.

This is what I call “THE GREAT GENDER DIVERGENCE!”

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But as you can see, all countries are patriarchal.

Nowhere in the world do women earn as much labour income as men.

Obviously, these are regional averages and obscure heterogeneity (especially in SSA).

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Net, there has been barely NO change in men and women’s shares of GLOBAL labour income.

(This must reflect Chinese women’s fall in total labour income)

Why do women earn less of total labour income?

In MENA, there is large gender gap in both pay and employment.

In SSA and North America, there are large gender gaps in pay.

In Russia, women approximate men in both pay and employment.

What’s Spain’s feminist secret?

Why do women comprise a larger share of top earners in Spain, compared to the USA? What’s driven this change?

[Loyal followers know that I have a long-standing fascination with rapid social change in Spain]

Men still comprise more than 75% of the top 1% of earners - in the US, France, Spain and Brazil.

But this gap has closed considerably, within the past four decades.