The Wage Gap Is Shrinking In 2018, women earned $0.87 for every dollar men earned and the wage gap was 13.3 percent, down from 18.8 percent in 1998. Source: cbc.ca, October 7, 20191

a. Explain why women carn less than men and why the gender wage gap has shrunk.

b. Draw a graph to show why discrimination could create the gender wage gap for some jobs

c. Explain how market competition might elimi- nate a wage gap arising from discrimination.16 Use the data provided in Problem 9 and in Fig 18.3 on p. 425. What percentage of total income is redistrib- uted from the highest-income households?

b. What percentages of total income are redis- tributed to the lower income households?