Women Fare Better Even as Overall Wage Disparity Surges - Building Gender Balanced Business

That wages for the top-most earners have skyrocketed relative to the worst paid is no secret. But the split is deeper than that: It is between a top half and botton have-nots, a Cornell economist explains. In 2005, a male worker in the 90th percentile made three times as much as a male worker in the 50th percentile, up from twice as much in 1979. Women, though, have used education to limit their representation, relative to both white and minority men, in that lower half, which has prevented a surge in the gender wage gap.

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