Young Women Out-Earn Young Men In A Few Cities, A Sign of Progress? New Pew Research Report

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- Daily Kos, 'Young women out-earn young men in a few cities. Time will tell if it's a sign of progress.' March 30, 22. -Ed.

The headline news from a new Pew Research Center report (Below) is that younger women are out-earning men in some places. But the vast majority of women face a very different reality, the analysis of Census Bureau data shows. Women under 30 are paid at least as much as men under 30 in 22 metropolitan areas, a major advance for pay equality. But that’s 22 metro areas out of 250, home to just 16% of young women working full time- & the story for women over 30 is different. In the NYC & Wash., D.C. metro areas, “young women earn 102% of what young men earn when examining median annual earnings among full-time, year-round workers,“ Pew reports. In the LA area, median earnings for the 2 groups are identical.

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In 107 metro areas, young women are paid between 90% and 99% of what young men are paid, and 47% of young women live in those areas. Regionally, the gender earnings gap among young workers is largest in the Midwest, where young women make just 90% of what young men make. Considering that for women of all ages who work full time and year-round median earnings are just 82% of what men make, all of this suggests progress.

But. “As these women age, history suggests that they may not maintain this level of parity with their male counterparts,” Pew notes.

“For example, in 2000, the typical woman age 16- 29 working full time, year-round earned 88% of a similar young man. By 2019, when people in this group were between the ages of 35- 48, women were earning only 80% of their male peers, on average.” Scholars cite several reasons for that. The Pew author of the report suggests that pattern is “consistent with a finding that labor economists have well documented- that women suffer a penalty when they become a mom.” "The older a woman is, the more time she has had to have been passed up for a promotion, to have gotten a slighter smaller raise compared to an equivalent male colleague, or to have made a career sacrifice for her family,”...

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- New Pew Research Ctr Report: *Young women are out-earning young men in several U.S. cities* March 28, 2022,

Women in the US continue to earn less than men, on average. Among full-time, year-round workers in 2019, women’s median annual earnings were 82% those of men. The gender wage gap is narrower among younger workers nationally, and the gap varies across geographical areas. In fact, in 22 of 250 U.S. metropolitan areas, women under the age of 30 earn the same amount as or more than their male counterparts, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis...
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/03/28/young-women-are-out-earning-young-men-in-several-u-s-cities/