gender gap

gender gap (plural gender gaps)

1. A measurable difference between the pay, status, political preferences etc. of men and women.

   Surveys show a gender gap with women favoring Democrats 12 percent more than men.

   • 1982 December 10, Ann Hulbert, “What Gender Gap?”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     But in the light of last month's election returns, the gender gap looks less like a striking electoral phenomenon and more like a pollster's product. To judge from the way women actually voted, they do not compose a voting bloc with especially compassionate clout.

   • 2005 May 17, “Nordic gender gap is thinner”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     The report found that no countries had managed to eliminate a gender gap entirely, but the Nordic countries were the best at narrowing it and providing a workable model for the rest of the world.

• → German: Gendergap
• → Italian: gender gap

• pay gap

• gender gap on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Unadapted borrowing from English gender gap.

gender gap m (invariable)

1. gender gap