Gender Pay Gap and Root Causes - Stat-aholics
Francine D. Blau, an economist at Cornell University, said, "Nothing happened to the pay gap from the mid-1950's to the late 70's. Then the 80's stood out as a period of sharp increase in women's pay. And it's much less impressive after that." In 2006, college-educated women between the ages of 36 and 45, earned 74.7 cents in hourly pay for every dollar that men in the same group did, according to the Labor Department. Only a decade earlier, women earned 75.7 cents for every dollar.
