Women's Earnings, Occupations, and Education - Chapter 9 MARCH 29

gender earnings gap

• gender earnings ratio: female median earnings/male median earnings
• gender earnings gap: 1-gender earnings ratio
• 2017 median year round full time (YRFT) weekly earnings were:
  • $770 for women
  • $941 for men
  • gender earnings ratio = .82
    • "women earn 82% as much as men"
  • gender earnings gap: .18
    • "there is a gender wage gap of 18 cents"
• this is comparing all full-time workers, NOT workers in the same profession
  • this is not doing a comparable work analysis, just taking everyone all together
• given the jobs that people actually, the median full-time women's salary is...whereas the man's is
  • we cannot directly say why this is
  • the median woman makes 82% of what the median man makes
• when we include part time ratios, the gender earnings ratio falls

• people who work part-time skews to make women be proportionally paid less
  • women may be more likely to be in these positions
• long term trend: this number is increasing

• women more likely to be top earnings than they were in the past... but the gap persists

  

• women make up 11% of the top .1% of earners, so men make up the other 89%

• women are underrepresented in top-earning jobs and overrepresented in minimum wage jobs

• men make more money than women in every industry

• women are more likely to be in poverty than men

  

• looking at all workers, how do we compare to other countries?

  

  • some have much higher, some have much lower