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Study: Higher education playing bigger role in gender wage gap

While higher education has helped women narrow their long-running wage gap with men, there is one college-related factor that has becoming increasingly important in perpetuating that gap, according to new research.

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created Aug 09, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (6) | comments 6

Gender wage gap shrunk faster than previously thought

The gap in wages between men and women has decreased sharply over the past 30 years, and a new University of Georgia study reveals that decline was even greater than previously recognized.

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created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study: Parsing the pill's impact on women's wages

(PhysOrg.com) -- Although women continue to lag behind men in pay, the gender wage gap has narrowed considerably since the 1960s. Now a new University of Michigan study is the first to quantify the impact ...

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created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study: New job trends reproducing old forms of gender inequality

Jobs that come with large paychecks but long work hours are slowing the gains women have made since the late 70s in narrowing the gender wage gap.

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created Aug 21, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

More female managers do not reduce wage gap

Are wage differences between men and women decreasing as more women attain managerial positions? A new Swedish report from the Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS) at Uppsala University and the Institute for Labour Market ...

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created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Larger cities drive growing wage gap between the rich and the poor, study shows

Why in the United States are the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer?

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created Feb 07, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1