The former looks at gender gaps in wages and labour force participation, and the latter at changes in the dispersion of eamings among male and female workers separately. The second pathway, which describes the impact on the distribution of household eamings, examines the correlation of eamings between husbands and wives as well as how this has developed over time (Section 5.4). Women are still less likely to being in paid work, to progress in their career and are more likely to earn less in their job.