{"id":16311,"date":"2012-10-19T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/women-still-lag-men-in-earning-power\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:42:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:42:20","slug":"women-still-lag-men-in-earning-power","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2012\/10\/19\/women-still-lag-men-in-earning-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Still Lag Men in Earning Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the course of the past four decades, women have been making significant gains in labor force participation and educational attainment.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2010, women made up almost half of the labor force (46.7%). In 1997, women made up 46.2% of the labor force. In 1970 women made up only 38.1% of the labor force.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the education front, women have made substantial strides and now surpass men in both college enrollment and completion. Some 44% of women ages 18 to 24 were enrolled in college or graduate programs as of October 2010, compared with 60%38% of men in the same age group.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In spite of their educational advantage and increased presence in the workplace, women continue to lag behind men in terms of earning power. In 2010, women who were full-time or salaried workers had median weekly earnings of $669, compared with $824 for their male counterparts. Still, women have made big strides in attaining equal pay. In 1979, when data of this sort began being collected, women earned on average 62% of what men earned. After steadily rising for the past two and a half decades, the growth in the women\u2019s-to-men\u2019s earnings ratio settled around 2004 and has remained in the 80-81% range since then.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today\u2019s wage gap is smaller among young workers than among their older counterparts. 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