Hot off the presses …
A Pew Research analysis of survey and census data concludes that that “today’s young women are the first in modern history to start their work lives at near parity with men.”
That’s good news.
Specifically, in 2012, among workers ages 25 to 34, women’s hourly earnings were 93% those of men …. that’s up from about 85% in 2000.
The bad news is that there’s still a 7% gap.
And, that’s despite the fact that “women in the younger age cohort were significantly more likely than their male counterparts to have completed a bachelor’s degree — 38% versus 31% in 2013.”
At least the trend is right.
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December 13, 2013 at 5:23 pm |
Is it because young men enter the job earlier than women(since less men went to college), thus accumulates more experiences by age of 34 than women?