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A large proportion of the increased share of females among top earners is accounted for by the mending of, what we refer to as, the paper floor &#8211; the phenomenon whereby female top earners were much more likely than male top earners to drop out of the top percentiles.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?attachment_id=20783\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Glass Ceilings and Paper Floors<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/20782\/the-ceiling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20784\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20784\" src=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/The-Ceiling.jpg\" alt=\"The Ceiling?\" width=\"236\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/The-Ceiling.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/The-Ceiling-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minneapolis Fed\u00a0 Despite making large inroads, females still constitute a small proportion of the top percentiles: the glass ceiling, albeit a thinner one, remains. 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