{"id":32819,"date":"2011-01-28T17:58:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T22:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=32819"},"modified":"2011-09-25T17:16:45","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T22:16:45","slug":"the-gender-gap-in-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/01\/28\/the-gender-gap-in-wages\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gender Gap in Wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/5746734\/the-gender-gap-in-wages\" target=\"_blank\">Jezebel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kelsey C. sent in a graph from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/opub\/ted\/2011\/ted_20110124.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Bureau of Labor Statistics that highlights the gender wage gap<\/a>. Among full-time workers during the last three months of 2010, men made more per week than women in each of these occupational categories:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/ted_20110124.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32820 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/ted_20110124-500x310.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/ted_20110124-500x310.png 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/ted_20110124.png 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In terms of dollars, the gap is largest for the highest-paid workers &#8212; $330 &#8212; and smallest for those in sales\/office, at $130. By percent, it&#8217;s worst for service (women make 72% as much as men in that sector) and again smallest for sales\/office (women make 82% as much as men in that area).<\/p>\n<p>And if we extrapolate this out, it adds up to a significant difference in annual earnings. If these income levels persisted for, say, 50 weeks, men in management would make $16,500 more than women; in sales, they&#8217;d make $6,500 more.<\/p>\n<p>This is the only image the BLS provides, but if you&#8217;re interested in the topic, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/archives\/wkyeng_01202011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">full report<\/a> has wages broken down by age and race\/ethnicity (and sex within those categories) as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted at Jezebel. Kelsey C. sent in a graph from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that highlights the gender wage gap. Among full-time workers during the last three months of 2010, men made more per week than women in each of these occupational categories: In terms of dollars, the gap is largest for the highest-paid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,2100,76],"class_list":["post-32819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-work","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32819"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39847,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32819\/revisions\/39847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}