Congress Studies Why Women Earn Less

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WASHINGTON - Women's income is lower on average than that of men in part because they generally work less, leave the labor force for longer periods and tend to hold jobs that pay less, a congressional study found

But even after adjustments are made for those factors, women still earned an average of 20.3 percent less than men in 2000, investigators said Thursday.


The General Accounting Office (news - web sites) conducted the earnings study for Democratic Reps. Carolyn Maloney of New York and John Dingell of Michigan.


The 20 percent gap has been relatively unchanged in the past two decades. The difference was 19.6 percent in 1983.