Convergence on earnings – peak timings
One of the key themes in the Paula Principle is to scrutinise the notion of convergence between men and women's career patterns. The PP is founded on the fact that women's qualification levels have not only converged on men's but long ago surpassed them - crossover rather than convergence. Meanwhile respective earnings have only slowly drifted close together, so the careers gap remains large. As a result the female/male competence gap is increasing faster than the male/female careers gap is closing. In anything other than a simplistic sense, convergence is not happening. But this is not the key point. Talk of convergence has a dangerous tendency to reinforce the idea…
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