The pay gap has nothing to do with taking time off to raise children…nor with lack of education or training.It’s straight from Bureau of Labor statistics…and reflects the average difference between what women employed full time are paid vs what men are paid for the same job.
It’s about the same for childless woman and women with children; for women with more training and less training than the men in equivalent positions….it’s an across-the-board average.
Broken down, it does vary by state and by occupation…and by race.
In Washington DC women earn about 91% of a man’s salary in their job…in some Southern states it’s closer to 66%.Woman earn closer to parity in some technical and other highly specialised fields, and far less than men in traditionally “women’s” jobs like home care.
And Hispanic women earn the least in comparison with white men, who are the standard for comparison because they comprise the largest group in the labor pool.
The pay gap has nothing to do with taking time off to raise children…nor with lack of education or training.It’s straight from Bureau of Labor statistics…and reflects the average difference between what women employed full time are paid vs what men are paid for the same job.
It’s about the same for childless woman and women with children; for women with more training and less training than the men in equivalent positions….it’s an across-the-board average.
Broken down, it does vary by state and by occupation…and by race.
In Washington DC women earn about 91% of a man’s salary in their job…in some Southern states it’s closer to 66%.Woman earn closer to parity in some technical and other highly specialised fields, and far less than men in traditionally “women’s” jobs like home care.
And Hispanic women earn the least in comparison with white men, who are the standard for comparison because they comprise the largest group in the labor pool.
Those are statistics, not opinions.