Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Economist Examines the Trend in the Gender Wage Gap

WIA Report
Posted on Dec 29, 2011

A study by Catherine J. Weinberger, an economist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, finds that the gender gap in earnings begins at the early stages of the careers of men and women and the gap stays constant as they get older and move up the career ladder. Weinberger examined salary data for a large group of women over a 10-year period from 1989 to 1999.

Dr. Weinberger states, “All the [economic] models say that women fall behind men in terms of salary, and, as they get older, they get farther behind. But that’s not the case. And it goes against everything I was expecting to find when I started looking at the data.”

Full Study: http://www.wiareport.com/2011/12/economist-examines-the-trend-in-the-gender-wage-gap/?utm_source=Women+In+Academia+Report&utm_campaign=26d541d552-Women_in_Academia_Report_6_14_116_13_2011&utm_medium=email

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