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My selected article is Gender Pay Gap. I noticed that some of the countries that are listed have less information than others. For example, the Dominican Republic, Germany, New Zealand, and India subsections could use some more information. New Zealand's subsection is completely empty. That is going to be my main focus.

Some sources that I am looking into: http://reports.weforum.org/global-gender-gap-report-2016/rankings/ https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1493&context=gradreports http://women.govt.nz/work-skills/income/gender-pay-gap http://www.loc.gov/law/foreign-news/article/germany-government-proposes-law-to-reduce-gender-pay-gap/ https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/41440211/International_Trade_and_the_Gender_Wage_20160122-19789-1rdlreq.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A&Expires=1512246735&Signature=Ud2DRWP8ttjlMSbVX8W%2BhpXV5CY%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DInternational_Trade_and_the_Gender_Wage.pdf

New Zealand

Although recent studies have shown that the gender wage gap in New Zealand has diminished in the last two decades, the gap continues to affect many women today. According to StatsNZ, the wage gap was measured to be 9.4 percent in September of 2017. Back in 1998, it was measured to be approximately 16.3 percent. There are several different factors that affect New Zealand's wage gap. However, researchers claim that 80 percent of these factors cannot be elucidated, which often causes difficulty in understanding the gap. In order to calculate the gap, New Zealand makes use of several different methods. The official gap is calculated by Statistics New Zealand. They use the difference between men and women's hourly revenue. On the other hand, the State Services Commission examine the average income of men and women for their calculation. Over the years, the OECD has and continues to track New Zealand's, along with 34 other countries', gender wage gap. In fact, the overall goal of the OECD is to fix the wage gap so that gender no longer plays a significant role in an individual's income. Although it has been a gradual change, New Zealand is one of the countries that has seen notable progress and researchers have predicted that it will continue to do so.