Glass Half-BrokenWhy the gender gap persists and how we can close it Women have made up roughly half of the college educated workforce for years, and before the onset of the economic crisis of 2020, the gap between the percentage of women and the percentage of men in the labour force was the lowest on record. But women remain underrepresented in positions of power and status. The gender pay gap, for example, shows little movement, largely because high paying jobs are