FACT: Jobs in which men are traditionally employed typically pay 20 to 30 percent more than traditionally female jobs. Overall, in 2009 the median weekly earnings of women who were fulltime wage and salary workers was $657, or 80 percent of men’s $819 due in part to the concentration of women in low wage work7. Data shows that male-dominated jobs pay an average median hourly wage of $17.35, while the traditionally female-held occupations pay just $13.85 hourly on average. This translates into a median annual salary of $36,085 for men and $28,805 for women – a yearly wage gap of $7,280. In 2008, three common traditional jobs for women receptionist, Preschool and kindergarten teachers and home health aide, paid median weekly earnings of $502, $589 and $424 respectively9. During the same year, computer programmers, electricians, and Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators, obs predominantly held by men, earned median weekly wages of $1,261, $809, and $744 respectively10
Posted on: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:54:55 +0000
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