Gender and Racial Wage Gaps Marginally Improve in 2022 but Pay Equity Still Decades Away
In 2022, women working full-time year-round made 84.0 cents [...]
In 2022, women working full-time year-round made 84.0 cents [...]
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Employment data released in April 2022 show another month of strong job growth. Women gained the majority of total job growth and moved into men-dominated jobs, like construction. Still, women are still much further than men from reaching pre-pandemic levels.
In 2021, women earned just 83.1 percent of what men earned, based on IWPR’s analysis of median weekly earnings for full-time workers.