Female graduates earn thousands of pounds less than their male counterparts - even if they studied the same subject at university.
On average,
female graduates earn less than their male counterparts, according to Hesa.
Indeed, earlier this year a UK study found that
female graduates earn around 8 per cent less than their male counterparts when they start work with an engineering company.
Not exact matches
While 2010
female MBA
graduates told GMAC's researchers that they
earned, on average, 51 % more than their pre-degree salary, men experienced a 54 % increase.
Female high school grads are currently paid 92 cents for every dollar paid to men, while female college graduates earn 79 cents for every dollar paid t
Female high school grads are currently paid 92 cents for every dollar paid to men, while
female college graduates earn 79 cents for every dollar paid t
female college
graduates earn 79 cents for every dollar paid to men.
The analysis, which was done in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the founding of Harvard Business School's African American Student Union, captures the career trajectories of the majority of
female black
graduates who have
earned degrees from the school.
She was the first self - identified African - American to attend Vassar College, where she
earned an undergraduate degree in 1944, and, four years later, she became the first
female African - American to
graduate from Yale School of Medicine.
Between 2002 and 2006, the number of
female Ph.D.
graduates increased faster than the number of male Ph.D.
graduates — but in 2006, the number of women
earning those degrees stopped growing and the number of men
earning degrees started to decline.
The majority of students in medical school are now women, for example, but
female graduates are more likely to become general practitioners rather than higher -
earning specialists.
Dwyer, who is an assistant deputy minister at the Indigenous Education and Well Being division at the Ontario Ministry of Education and founder of the Black
Female Lawyers Network, would go on to study economics and political science,
earning a bachelor of arts degree from McGill University, and then going on to
graduate from the University of Windsor Law School.
According to our survey,
female graduates expect to
earn # 3,500 less than their male counterparts when landing their first job.
Its figures show that while 63.3 % of
female graduates from full - time undergraduate degrees
earn over # 21,000 three years after leaving university, this compares with 68.7 % of men.
And research shows that
female graduates still
earn far less than their male counterparts, even if they did the same degree.
Female law
graduates, for instance, can expect to
earn 28 % less than men at the start of their careers.