"The big gender-related chasm in American education these days is how much worse boys are doing, than girls," he said.
The one thing we know is that women are more than half the US population, and the electoral gender gap was a chasm.
Looking to build a bridge over the technology industry's (and the technology investment industry more specifically) chasm-sized gender gap, a group of successful women entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate executives have launched Female Funders — a site dedicated to providing women with the tools they need to begin angel investing.
Factor in overtime, the pay of part-time workers and the salaries of high-earning men, and the currently "wide" gender pay gap becomes a chasm.
In fact, the gender pay gap remains a yawning chasm.
In the 1950s, people may have thought they were marrying for love, but the gender divide was more of a chasm.
The gender wealth gap turns into a yawning chasm when you factor in race, as recently detailed in an earlier report by the Insight Center showing a vast disparity in the median net wealth of women of color compared with white women.
Having embraced my self-awareness, I was able to leap across the chasm of darkness that separates the genders in Western society and emerge into a state of aletheia, or unconcealedness.
Until then, those who recognise the chasm that needs to be closed to reach gender equality must actively speak up and call out sexism when they see it – both the unintentional, seemingly harmless everyday variety and the more menacing and ill-intentioned type perpetuated by those who feel threatened by strong women.
South African laws and policy on violence against women acknowledge it to be a significant human rights and public health issue, yet extreme levels of gender-based violence, poverty and HIV infection among women reveal a chasm between the daily lives of female citizens and apparent gains in the public sphere.
