With every passing year, the number of women in the workplace has become an increasingly important issue. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, women made up nearly half (47%) of the workforce as of March 2016. While there have been great strides toward parity in employment and pay among genders, according to a study by Glassdoor and LeanIn.Org, there is still a significant “invisible” gender pay gap in the U.S.—women are paid 82% that of men on average across all occupations.
The typical undergraduate career path is not unlike that of the typical novice kitchen chef – you graduate from culinary school and start off as an unpaid intern, where you’re busing tables, making coffee, doing prep work, taking orders and learning how to write a business plan on your day off.
Average woman’s salary in us
The average full-time woman’s salary is $37,791. The average man’s salary is $47,127. That is a difference of $9,326. That’s a lot of money! This means the average woman makes about 77 cents for every dollar that a man earns. Although this gap has narrowed over the past few decades, it still remains today. Just remember – do not judge a man by his income, but also don’t judge a woman by hers. You never know what she could be giving up for her job or how she could change her life situation in order to achieve an income.
The article states that the average women earns around 78 cents to every dollar that the average man earns. The reason given for this is because the women tend to choose jobs that are lower paying than men would. One of the ways in which this is addressed is through encouragement on the part of legislative bodies as well as employers to obtain more females in higher positions of power and income earners even if they are not always at the same capacity as their male counterparts. There is a chance however, that by encouraging more women into higher positions of employment, there will be less jobs available for actual people in the end.
Because the cost of living varies so much from place to place, let’s go with the national average: a family of two working parents and two children spend $140.79 a day, or $58,121 a year. Totaling up the average annual earnings for women we can estimate that men earn around $83,000 a year more than women on average. That breaks down to about $5,000 more per month—the cost of living in New York City for 20 years.
As of 2011, the average salary for a female in the United States is $35,000. Disparity between men and women has existed for years and that gap has only widened in the past decade. Since 1970, female earnings as a percentage of male earnings have decreased from about 57 percent to about 70 percent.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, on average a woman earns 79 cents for every $1 earned by a man. Women are also underrepresented in many industries and face difficulty in obtaining leadership positions. Nonetheless, recent initiatives to address inequality have had an impact. Women are now earning more degrees than men at all levels of education. This has caused women’s earnings to grow faster than men’s in the past few years, so that the gap is projected to close completely in 40 years. More legislation is also being passed to combat unlawful workplace discrimination, though progress must be monitored moving forward to ensure that this continues.
Conclusions: By all measures, women in the U.S. are paid less than men for doing the same work, with the disparity more acute among top-end earners and those who have advanced degrees.