Women face a wage gap at every point in their careers, a gap that gets worse as they age and progress through their work lives.
In 2021, the most recent year for which federal data is available, women working full-time in the U.S. were paid 84 cents for every dollar paid to a man, the National Women’s Law Center reports.
The gap is even wider when we include women working part-time: Pew Research Center estimates that all women, regardless of the hours they worked, earned an average of 82% of what men made in 2022.
This difference in earnings is perhaps the most obvious once women hit their 30s, which is also when the gap begins to widen.
Things start to diverge when women are between the ages of 35 and 44, a new analysis from Pew Research Center has found. In 2022, women between the ages of 25 and 34 earned about 92% as much as the men in their age group, while women ages 35 to 44 earned just 83% as much as men their age.
This gap persists even as women are outpacing men in college graduation and enrollment rates — in fact, Rakesh Kocchar, a senior researcher at Pew, found that the gap between women and men with a college degree is not any narrower than the one between women and men without a college degree.
It continues to widen even as women near retirement, as women between the ages of 55 and 64 earn a mere 79% of what men their age make — a troubling trend that hasn’t budged in at least four decades,” Kochhar writes.
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