INCOME INEQUALITY

While the wage gap between the sexes has somewhat narrowed, a sizable gap endures. The top economist in the field, Nobelist Claudia Golden, suggests it’s all motherhood. A new and brilliant study looking at women with Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser Syndrome confirms it. MRKH is a condition where a girl is born without a uterus but otherwise develops normally. They cannot bear children. These women have identical earnings trajectories as their male peers.