Male-female wage gap significantly widening for young workers, study finds
Chicago Tribune: Pay disparities between men and women start earlier in their careers than widely assumed and have significantly widened for young workers in the past year, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute. Paychecks for young female college graduates are about 79 percent as large as those of their male peers, the think tank found. That’s a big drop from 84 percent last year. The jump follows a more gradual shift. In 2000, women ages 21 to 24 with college degrees earned on average 92 percent of their male counterparts’ wages, which was unchanged from 1990.
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