the new york times is running a good but relatively depressing series on the gender divide. their most recent installment is focused on the salary differences between men and women. apparently the situation is no longer improving, at least among the more highly educated and higher paid workers. sad. here's a clip:
Throughout the 1980s and early ’90s, women of all economic levels — poor, middle class and rich — were steadily gaining ground on their male counterparts in the work force. By the mid-’90s, women earned more than 75 cents for every dollar in hourly pay that men did, up from 65 cents just 15 years earlier. Largely without notice, however, one big group of women has stopped making progress: those with a four-year college degree. The gap between their pay and the pay of male college graduates has actually widened slightly since the mid-’90s.
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