But wage gaps grow as working women age, corresponding to life events such as child rearing, a new report finds.
of Census Bureau data, women younger than 30, on average, earn at least as much or more than men in D.C., New York, Los Angeles and 19 other major metro areas ― places where strong job markets attract educated young people looking to build careers. Nationwide, women 30 and younger earn 93 cents for every dollar made by a comparable man.
“This is consistent with a finding that labor economists have well documented — that women suffer a penalty when they become a mom,” he said. “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,” said Betsey Stevenson, a professor of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan.Women are less likely to be mentored at work and less likely to receive management training, says Alexandra Kalev, a professor of anthropology at Tel Aviv University.
Pew’s recent findings, experts say, line up with other research examining women’s earnings at different ages. A
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