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As of April 2022 the average gender pay gap is 8.3%, [176] although men get paid less than women for part-time work. [ 177 ] [ 178 ] The gap varies considerably from −4.4% (women employed part-time without overtime out earn men) to 26% (for UK women employed full-time aged 50 – 59). [ 177 ]
Their study of pay negotiations found that women were less likely than men to negotiate when the behavior was labeled as "negotiating" but equally likely when the behavior was labeled as "asking". [187] Riley and Babcock found that women are penalized when they try to negotiate starting salaries.
Women were largely limited to low-paid and poor status occupations for most of the 19th and 20th centuries, or earned less pay than men for doing the same work. [2] However, through the 20th century, the labor market shifted.
WEF pointed out that the economic gender gap will now take 257 years to close, compared to 202 years last year.
If anyone wondered whether the gender pay gap is still a force to be reckoned with, they need look no further than at men and women's respective savings account balances in 2022. According to New ...
These are the items sold on eBay which created the biggest gender pay gaps: 7. Gift vouchers — Women earned 6.8% less than men for gift cards of identical value.
By 1945 there were 4.7 million women in clerical positions - this was an 89% increase from women with this occupation prior to World War II. [8] In addition, there were 4.5 million women working as factory operatives - this was a 112% increase since before the war. [8] The aviation industry saw the highest increase in female workers during the war.
As more and more women were working for pay, deindustrialization in the '80s and '90s drove scores of men out of the labor market, shrinking the pool of those who could support a family.