Women overall earn 76 percent of what men earn–up from 59.4 percent in 1970, though the narrowing gap is partially due to a decrease in men’s earnings, and mostly affects single working women.
Three quarters of women working full-time still make less than $25,000 a year.
Women in executive, administrative, and managerial positions earn 68 percent of what their male counterparts earn.
Women pharmacists get 86 percent of what male colleagues earn.
Women college professors 77 percent.
Women surgeons 76 percent.
Women lawyers 70 percent.
Women engineers 82 percent.
Women construction workers 74 percent.
Women truckdrivers 71 percent.
The number of women veterinarians increased 22-fold from 1989 to 2001 (the fastest gaining occupation for women, who are now almost 43 percent of vets), but they earn 15 percent less than male vets.
And even in traditionally “female” fields:
Women nurses only make 94 percent of male nurses.
Social workers 93 percent.
Elementary school teachers 90 percent.
Food-prep serice workers 89 percent.
And 80 percent of working-poor mothers have less than one week of sick leave per year.
(all from Sisterhood is Forever: The women’s anthology for a new millenium, compiled and edited by Robin Morgan)
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