This is not news to me, and I’ve covered the topic before, but federal statistics show that while women have caught up with men in degrees conferred, we still have work to do in catching up in pay.
Women Catch Up In Degrees But Not In Pay
Women Make About 76 Percent As Much As Men
— reported by Click2Houston.comWomen now earn the majority of diplomas in fields men used to dominate – from biology to business – and have caught up in pursuit of law, medicine and other advanced degrees.
Even with such enormous gains over the past 25 years, women are paid less than men in comparable jobs and lag in landing top positions on college campuses.
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