Women college grads earn less than men.

I find it interesting that they never choose to do these studies across race and class, but either way this study by the American Association of University Women found that as soon as one year after college, women earn less then men.

“By looking at earnings just one year out of college, you have as level a playing field as possible,” said Catherine Hill, the director of research at AAUW. “These employees don’t have a lot of experience and, for the most part, don’t have care-giving obligations, so you’d expect there to be very little difference in the wages of men and women. But we find that women already earn less – even when they have the same major and occupation as their male counterparts.”

And interestingly (but not shockingly) the wage gap widens as women get older.

Ten years after graduation, women fall further behind, earning 69 per cent of what men earn. By that point, college-educated men have more authority in the workplace than do their female counterparts. For instance, men are more likely to be involved in hiring and firing, supervising others and setting pay.

They also looked at how majors in college are then reflected in the real world (i.e. 79 per cent of education majors are women and men make up 82 per cent of engineering majors and then in the workplace, women make up 74 percent of education workers and men make up 84 per cent of the engineering and architecture fields). But this got me to thinking, what about those of us that have other majors?
via MSNBC.

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