GENDER GAP Definition & Meaning

gender gap

noun

the differences between women and men, especially as reflected in social, political, intellectual, cultural, or economic attainments or attitudes.

gender gap

A phrase marking the trend in recent U.S. presidential elections, whereby more female than male voters support the Democratic party candidate and more male than female voters support the Republican party candidate.

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Origin of gender gap¹

First recorded in 1980–85

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Idioms and Phrases

A broad difference between men and women, as in There is still an enormous gender gap in the wages of unskilled labor . This expression at first referred to the difference between men and women in voting preferences. It has since been extended to other areas. [1970s]

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The partisan gender gap between 2020 and 2024 actually shrunk, with Harris proportionally losing more women than men compared to Biden’s performance in 2020.

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A gender gap has opened up between boys and girls in maths and science subjects in England, a new report suggests.

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A gender gap has opened up in favour of boys since the last report in comparative countries too, such as Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

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There are jokes seated in the generation as well as the gender gap: “Racist old-world thinking, man,” Raj tells Ahmad, when Ahmad refuses to work with Indians because “they’ll rob us blind like they did during Partition.”

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This closed the gender gap in retention.

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