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gender gap

gender gap noun: a measurable difference between the pay, status, political preferences etc. of men and women.

Noun

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

gender gap meaning in Tamil

gender gap in Tamil

பாலின இடைவெளி

Forms of gender gap

pluralgender gaps

Questions about gender gap

What does gender gap mean?
Gender gap means a measurable difference between the pay, status, political preferences etc. of men and women.
What is gender gap in Tamil?
Gender gap in Tamil is பாலின இடைவெளி. See Gender gap meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is gender gap?
Gender gap is a noun.
What is the plural of gender gap?
The plural of gender gap is gender gaps.

Words near gender gap in the dictionary

  1. gender envy
  2. gender euphoria
  3. gender expression
  4. gender expressions
  5. gender fluidity
  6. gender gap
  7. gender gaps
  8. gender hoard
  9. gender hoards
  10. gender identities
  11. gender identity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gender gap (page history and authors); gender gap (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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