Women in the United States continue to earn less than men, on average. Among full-time, year-round workers in 2019, women’s median annual earnings were 82% those of men.
The gender wage gap is narrower among younger workers nationally, and the gap varies across geographical areas. In fact, in 22 of 250 U.S. metropolitan areas, women under the age of 30 earn the same amount as or more than their male counterparts, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data.
The New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles metropolitan areas are among the cities where young women are earning the most relative to young men. In both the New York and Washington metro areas, young women earn 102% of what young men earn when examining median annual earnings among full-time, year-round workers. In the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro area, the median earnings for women and men in this age group were identical in 2019. (For data on earnings and the gender gap for 250 U.S. metropolitan areas, read this Google sheet.)
Overall, about 16% of all […]
Am wondering how much of this is in relation to women having fewer or no children in those years. Just read an article that relates to this which emphasized women being particularly skilled in team building, negotiating and conflict resolution.
Why it is good news that one sex is out-earning another? Isn’t this exactly the situation that women were protesting against only in reverse? Now it’s ok?
So women are out-earning men, more doctors/lawyers graduating are now women and now it’s fine?
But I suppose it’s all based on the myths of the patriarchy, where in reality 99% of men lead lives of duty and sacrifice to serve the 1% of rich masters.