“For example, consider the finding, in a report published by the American Association of University Women (AAUW), that, just one year after graduating from college, women earn on average only 80 percent of what men earn. The fact that women tend to chose majors that result in lower-paying professions explains some of the difference, but, even among male and female graduates within a single major, women almost always earn less. (History is the only major of the 12 majors included in the report in which female graduates earn more than male graduates.) Ten years after graduating, after controlling for “job and workplace, demographic and experience, and education and training,” an unexplained pay gap of 12 percent between men and women remains, the AAUW report states. Such unexplained gaps also exist within the federal government. A report issued by the Government Accountability Office found that an 11-cent wage gap existed between men and women in the federal workforce and that 7 cents of that gap was not explicable by education or experience. Even in Furchtgott-Roth’s analysis of wage disparities among different data sets—which she adjusts to incorporate “appropriate” variables that she deemed missing from the data—in no instance were women’s earnings on par with men’s.”
- A Sad Day For Equal Pay: We Needed The Paycheck Fairness Act | The New Republic
- A Sad Day For Equal Pay: We Needed The Paycheck Fairness Act | The New Republic