According to
new statistics released by the Census Bureau, American female workers continue
to make less money than males for the same amount of work. In short, California employment lawyers find that
there hasn't been much change in the status quo as far as gender differences in wages over the past decade are concerned.
According to
the statistics, women continue to make 76.5 cents for every dollar, in male wages
in 2012. A male worker enjoyed median annual earnings of approximately $49,398
last year, compared with median annual earnings of $37,791 for female workers.
The previous year, women earned approximately $.77 for every one dollar men did
for the same work.
It wasn't
always like this. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, there was significant progress
made in narrowing down the wage gap between the genders. However, in the early
2000s, that momentum stalled and there hasn't been a lot of progress since.
According to some experts, this is probably because some of the initial factors
that were credited with narrowing down the gender differences in wage,
including education and legislation, have lost some of their potency.
In other
words, female education levels now are very much on par with male education
levels, but that fact on its own does not seem to be sufficient to change wage trends,
which currently dictate that males get paid more for the same kind of work. Even so, there has been sufficient
progress since the 1980s, when women were paid 60.2 cents for every one dollar
that males did.
There is
some good news in the statistics. There seems to have been some progress made
in narrowing down the gender gap among younger workers. In 2012, women in the 15
to 24 age group made $ .88 for every dollar that males did. Among women in the 25
to 44 group, the amount fell to $ .81, and in the 45 to 64
group, the amount was $ .74 for every dollar.
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