According to the National Partnership for Women and Families, the annual gender wage gap in Florida is just over $9,000. But University of Central Florida’s Institute for Economic Forecasting Director Sean Snaith tells WMFE's Talia Blake that the real problem is with the quality of education people are getting, not gender.
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Across the U.S, March 14 is Equal Pay Day, symbolizing how far into the year woman have to work in order to make what their male colleagues earned the previous year.
The National Partnership for Women and Families reports that the annual gender wage gap in Florida is $9,240.
But UCF economist Sean Snaith said that data can sometimes be distorted.
"When you sort of aggregate over different types of jobs and careers by sex, you can get something that may show a gender gap, but may really be reflecting the different gender mixes in different types of careers."
For example, Zippia reports that 92% of early childhood teachers are women. "And those tend not to be high paying jobs," Snaith said.
When trying to asses gender based pay gap, Snaith said you have to compare people doing the same job with similar backgrounds in terms of education and experience. "And I think, studies that are far more disaggregated in that way, that gender gap tends to be pretty small."
Snaith said one big factor that plays into the pay gap is education. "I think the problem is more...
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