Women Better Educated than Men, Still Paid Less

[Hope And Change]

Union teachers, who are mostly women, earn between 59 percent and 130 percent more than their nonunion counterparts.

Women Better Educated than Men, Still Paid Less

by James Parks, Jul 13, 2008

Last month, a group of women delivered 9,000 résumés to John McCain’s office on Capitol Hill to remind the senator from Arizona that women are well-trained, highly educated and qualified and should be paid the same as men for doing the same work.

McCain and those who oppose equal pay for working women claim women just need more training to get a better job.

Not so, according to recent data compiled by the AFL-CIO Department for Professional Employees (DPE). The DPE finds that even though women workers clearly are better educated than men, they receive less pay in nearly every profession than their male counterparts. The best way to get better pay, the fact sheet shows, is to join a union, something McCain—who opposes the Employee Free Choice Act—wants to make harder.

The DPE fact sheet, “Salaried and Professional Women: Relevant Statistics,” notes that women have been earning more bachelor’s degrees than men since 1982 and more master’s degrees since 1981. This year, women are projected to earn 52 percent of all first professional degrees and almost 49 percent of all doctorates. Taken together, women will earn 59 percent of all postsecondary degrees in 2008.

But those advanced degrees don’t translate into better pay. In 2005, full-time women workers who graduated high school earned 34 percent less than men with similar degrees. Women with bachelor’s degrees earned 31 percent less. Those with a master’s degree were paid 32 percent less and those with doctorates received about 30 percent less. Click here to read the entire fact sheet.


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[ensho]

1. 9,000 ! well done!

nt

[flashl]

2. Several years ago, 60 minutes had a segment about this, the target was the news room.

The editor being interviewed said, (paraphrasing) "its about males networking, not degrees".

[China_cat]

3. Women do better with a union

but they STILL get less than men. From 2004. The percentages are still the same, though.

http://opeiu-local73.org/wage-comparison.php

[Captain Hilts]

4. Gee, and so many people here think our societyis 'post-sexism'. nt