The Gender Pay Gap Widens as Men’s Earnings Grow Twice as Fast as Women’s
By: Eric Morath
The gender pay gap is widening again because men’s earnings are growing this year at twice the rate of women’s.
The median weekly earnings for full-time male workers was $889 in the third quarter, the Labor Department said Tuesday. That’s a 2.2% increase from a year earlier. Meanwhile, full-time female workers’ earnings were $721, up 0.8% from a year earlier.
The latest data marks the third straight quarter that the increase in male earnings was at least double that of female workers. As a result, women who work full time earned 81.1 cents for every dollar a man earned from July through September. That’s down more than a penny from a year earlier.
The trend suggests the narrowing of the pay gap may have at least temporarily stalled this year.
