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For Women Graduates, the Gender Pay Gap Persists
Date: 11/17/2008 05:28 pm
The American Association of University Women Educational Foundation released a report, ‘Behind the Pay Gap,’ which discovered that within their first year of graduating women make 80% of what men earn—but after ten years of working, women make only 69% of what men earn. Although women tend to have better GPAs than men, they also tend to enter lower paying fields, such as education and health care, while men more often go into engineering and business.
