Women on top: the role of gender in higher educational advancement and career success
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2011-10
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Gender inequality has long been considered an issue in educational development and career However, However, recent developments in alleviating such inequalities raise the question of whether or not gender bias still exists in school and in the workplace, specifically in This Philippine setting. This paper aims to determine how Filipinos' contributes to Filipinos' higher educational The and career success. The results of Filipino women analysis show that Filipino women achieve greater educational advancement and However, women greater years of schooling. However, women in the country still continue to earn less than men On to several social and cultural factors. On a more positive note, it was also discovered that the wage differential has been decreasing since 2003, which verifies that women are slowly advancing in the workplace.
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Gender inequality, higher education, career success, Logistic Regression, Heckman Selection Model