{"id":21572,"date":"2019-10-25T11:45:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T11:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=21572"},"modified":"2019-10-25T16:57:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T16:57:37","slug":"college-degree-widens-gender-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/business\/management-leadership\/college-degree-widens-gender-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"College degree widens gender gap"},"content":{"rendered":"

The gender pay gap is wider among men and women with a bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n

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By Jennifer Cheeseman Day | U.S. Census Bureau<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Among workers with a bachelor\u2019s degree, women earn 74 cents for every dollar men make, which is less than the 78 cents for workers without the college degree.<\/p>\n

While workers with a bachelor\u2019s degree earn about double that of their co-workers without a college education, the difference between men\u2019s and women\u2019s earnings widens with more education.<\/p>\n

Age and job choice can affect the size of the pay gap.<\/p>\n

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Women workers with a bachelor\u2019s degree are younger on average and many are years away from the earnings peak usually reached by people in their 50s.<\/p>\n

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Higher pay reflects years of work experience and pay raises. The earnings differences between men and women also peak in their 50s, although men on average earn more at every age than their female counterparts.<\/p>\n

Among workers with a bachelor\u2019s degree, women are considerably younger, on average, than men (median ages of 42 vs. 45). This results in a larger pay gap, as women have had less time to accumulate experience and pay raises.<\/p>\n

In contrast, working women without a bachelor\u2019s degree are, on average, older than male workers without a bachelor\u2019s (median ages of 47 vs. 45), which tends to narrow the pay gap.<\/p>\n

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At all ages in both education groups, men outnumber women except for the youngest age group (25-29) with a bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n

The influx in recent decades of college-educated women has driven their numbers to record levels. In fact, the number of women working full time, year-round with a bachelor\u2019s degree is almost equal to men\u2019s (18 million women and 21 million men).<\/p>\n

Women are more likely to have a bachelor\u2019s degree than men (41.7% compared with 36.2%) among full-time, year-round workers. This is particularly true for workers under age 60.<\/p>\n

As older educated male workers age out of the labor force, this pattern of the college-educated workforce dominated by women may continue. Of note, male workers without a bachelor\u2019s degree make up the largest group by far.<\/p>\n

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In some occupations, the earnings gap virtually disappears.<\/p>\n

The mixture of the jobs men and women hold, and the earnings differences among these occupations, also contribute to the overall earnings gap.<\/p>\n

This\u00a0interactive visualization<\/a>\u00a0illustrates these relationships for about 400 occupations. It provides easy comparisons of median earnings differences by median age for men and women workers by occupation.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s even worse when we look specifically at\u00a0women of color,<\/a>\u00a0according to Forbes<\/a>, as Latinas earn 54 cents for every dollar paid to white, non-Latino men, while the ratio is 57 cents for Native Americans and 63 cents for African-Americans. In other words, men with the same qualifications and degrees as their female counterparts earn more than women performing the same jobs, across industries and fields, with pitifully few exceptions.<\/p>\n

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At this rate, the overall U.S. wage gap won\u2019t close until the year 2059, when today\u2019s newly minted college graduates will be about 62 years old.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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