David Usborne
New York, Aug. 5: A new analysis of census data in the United States is upending long-held assumptions about women still lagging behind men in wages.
While it may remain true on a nationwide basis, it is no longer holds for younger females in some of the country’s largest cities, notably New York and Dallas.
Researchers at Queens College in New York show that young women in this city actually began to overtake their male counterparts in earning power in 2000 and have continued to widen the gap. By 2005, women of all education levels aged between 21 and 30 were making 117 per cent of men’s wages.
The study appears to be a reflection both of an accelerated rate of migration of young women to New York and other large urban areas where job opportunities are more plentiful and greater levels of education attainment among women compared with men.
Women in their 20s are also making more than men in Chicago, Boston and Minneapolis, while the gap is greatest in Dallas where they are taking home 120 per cent of what men are managing.
Nationally, however, a more familiar pattern still holds with the median income for women set at $25,467, compared with $28,523 for men, the report says. Some experts predict that the changing dynamics will soon extend to older age groups. Traditionally, women have fallen further behind in earning power as they have aged, either because they have taken to working part time or hit a glass ceiling in the workplace.
But in New York, at least, even women in their 30s are already making as much as men.
THE INDEPENDENT
New York, Aug. 5: A new analysis of census data in the United States is upending long-held assumptions about women still lagging behind men in wages.
While it may remain true on a nationwide basis, it is no longer holds for younger females in some of the country’s largest cities, notably New York and Dallas.
Researchers at Queens College in New York show that young women in this city actually began to overtake their male counterparts in earning power in 2000 and have continued to widen the gap. By 2005, women of all education levels aged between 21 and 30 were making 117 per cent of men’s wages.
The study appears to be a reflection both of an accelerated rate of migration of young women to New York and other large urban areas where job opportunities are more plentiful and greater levels of education attainment among women compared with men.
Women in their 20s are also making more than men in Chicago, Boston and Minneapolis, while the gap is greatest in Dallas where they are taking home 120 per cent of what men are managing.
Nationally, however, a more familiar pattern still holds with the median income for women set at $25,467, compared with $28,523 for men, the report says. Some experts predict that the changing dynamics will soon extend to older age groups. Traditionally, women have fallen further behind in earning power as they have aged, either because they have taken to working part time or hit a glass ceiling in the workplace.
But in New York, at least, even women in their 30s are already making as much as men.
THE INDEPENDENT
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