A question about the gender wage gap.

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76. Very frightened

Last edited Sat Dec 28, 2013, 08:05 AM - Edit history (2)

This has been fun and you really are a hoot (I was quite bored tonight), but I am finally tired and going to bed.

On edit (I generally like to make a second post vs editing, however, you seemed to take exception to that): You may want to take a closer look at the study

Pay Gap Shows Up Even A Year After College Graduation
Occupational segregation is by no means the whole story, however. When AAUW compared men and women who chose the same college major using U.S. Department of Education statistics, we found that just one year out of college, women working full time already earned less, on average, than their male colleagues. Among education majors, for example, women earned only 95 percent as much as their male colleagues earned, and among biological science majors, women earned just 75 percent as much as men earned one year after graduation.

In an attempt to really compare apples to apples, our research accounted not only for college major but also for occupation, industry, sector, hours worked, workplace flexibility, experience, educational attainment, enrollment status, GPA, institution selectivity, age, race/ethnicity, region, marital status, and children.

After accounting for all of these factors thought to affect earnings (whether fairly or not), we found that a 5 percent difference in the earnings of women and men one year out of college was still unexplained. A similar analysis of full-time workers 10 years after college graduation found a 12 percent unexplained difference in earnings.

Catherine Hill, Ph.D., is the director of research at AAUW, where she focuses on higher education and women's economic security. Prior to her work at AAUW, she was a researcher at the Institute for Women's Policy Research and an assistant professor at the University of Virginia. She has bachelor's and master's degrees from Cornell University and a doctorate in public policy from Rutgers University. Follow AAUW on Twitter @AAUW.

Second edit (again I prefer to start a second post....):

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/05/171196714/the-jobs-with-the-biggest-and-smallest-pay-gaps-between-men-and-women

Women are paid significantly less, on average, than men — even when they're doing the same jobs. But the gap varies dramatically for workers in different jobs.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics sent us some data on how much women made in comparison to their male counterparts in hundreds of different jobs; here are the jobs where the wage gap is smallest, and those where the gap is biggest. The gap is based on comparisons of full-time workers.