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The federal government reports that the median earnings for women are 83% of the median earnings for men. Women making gains in the workforce, but gender gap still exists Skip to main content
In the U.S., using median hourly earnings statistics (not controlling for job type differences), disparities in pay relative to white men are largest for Latina women (58% of white men's hourly earnings and 90% of Latino men's hourly earnings) and second-largest for Black women (65% and 91% when compared to Black men), while white women have a ...
Claudia Goldin described women's participation rate in the workforce as a U-shaped curve. One that as a country develops, women's participation rate in the workforce starts high, declines, and then rises again. Its decline starts from a move from production in the household, family farm, or small business to a wider market.
The report found that in the remote workforce, women earned 79% of what men did, compared to 89% in the non-remote workforce. [203] A 2023 United Kingdom survey found that managers were 15% less likely to give promotions to women who work remotely compared to the office, and were 30% less likely to give promotions to men verbatim. [204] [205]
In the last three years alone, the percentage of women in the workforce contributing to their retirement savings has slowly ticked up. In 2020, a Bankrate survey found that 70 percent of working ...
The modern growth of women in the workforce has been propelled by a trend in women achieving higher rates of college education than men and the shifting makeup of formerly male-dominated fields ...
The legal status of women in the United States is, in comparison to other countries, equal to that of men, and women are generally viewed as having equal social standing as well. In the early history of the U.S., women were largely relegated to the home. However, the role of women was revolutionized over the course of the 20th century.
The new study surveyed more than 900 women in leadership roles in four industries where women comprise a large share of the workforce — health care, higher education, law and faith-based nonprofits.