diff --git a/scoping_review.qmd b/scoping_review.qmd index aebf693..245fed0 100644 --- a/scoping_review.qmd +++ b/scoping_review.qmd @@ -1185,6 +1185,12 @@ A variety of studies also look at female economic empowerment outcomes through a focusing on the effects of interventions aimed at maternity support for the mother and/or children --- childcare programmes, paid leave and maternity benefits. + +As @Grotti2016 demonstrate, an increased gender equality does not engender an increase in overall economic inequality. +Using the Theil index, they decompose a method to account for the different mediating effects of employment similarity and earnings similarity between the genders and find that neither correlated with an increased income inequality. +In fact the opposite seems the case, at least in their analysis of developed nations, with increased female employment reducing the economic inequality, +which they see rather generated by a polarisation between high-income and low-income households. + ## Spatial inequalities Spatial inequalities are less focused within European, Central Asian and North American regions, @@ -1404,4 +1410,3 @@ print(f""" ``` {{< pagebreak >}} -