As Women Take Over a Male-Dominated Field, the Pay Drops

By Claire Cain Miller, The New York Times

Women’s median annual earnings stubbornly remain about 20 percent below men’s. Why is progress stalling?

It may come down to this troubling reality, new research suggests: Work done by women simply isn’t valued as highly.

Read the story here.

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