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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
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.
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 ...
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]
More than a quarter of women (26 percent) working full-time, part-time or looking for employment didn’t contribute to their retirement savings between August 2023 and 2024, compared to 16 ...
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 ...
For Hispanic women, the highest total fertility rate was in Alabama, at 3.085, and the lowest in Vermont, at 1.200, and Maine, at 1.281. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] As of 2016, due to aging, low birth rates and rising mortality driven partly by drug overdoses , deaths outnumber births among non-Hispanic whites in more than half the states in the country.
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.