Poll: North America has largest gender gap on jobs outlook

The gender gap in labor market outlook last year was wider in North America than any other region, says a poll released by Gallup Monday.

{mosads}Sixty-two percent of women in North America in 2013 said it was a bad time to find a job while 56 percent of men said the same.

Gallup found the gender gap in the United States was one of the largest with 56 percent of men and 64 percent of women reporting 2013 was a bad time to find a job. The gap could be connected to the pattern of women receiving lower incomes than men, Gallup explained. 

Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina, however, had an even wider gender gap on the jobs outlook in their countries.

Canadians were less pessimistic about jobs than people in the U.S. with 48 percent of men and 48 percent of women saying it was a bad time to find a job last year.

The survey polled 137,387 people ages 15 and older in 2013 in 136 countries with a margin of error of plus or minus 1 percentage point.