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Among them, the death of the credit card (and triumph of bitcoin); mobile phones replacement by virtual reality; and the mobile Internet's shrinking of the wage gap.

That's not the only wage gap visible in this ranking.

While wage growth has been solid over the last five years, the salary gap between new workers and experienced rig hands tends to be relatively small.

The woman's wage gap, meanwhile, is real: In 2016, women working full - time were generally paid only 80 % of what men received.

The gap between rich and poor narrowed after World War II as unions negotiated better pay and benefits and as the government enacted a minimum wage and other policies to help the poor and middle class.

The respondents were skeptical about measures to fix wage gaps, fearing the cure could be worse than the disease.

Some women shy away from jobs in fields that require long workweeks, knowing they won't have the time: a 10 percent cut in free time for women reduces their share in high - hour occupations by about 14 percent relative to men, according to the researcher's model.In total, that difference in time spent on at - home labor results in an 11 percentage point gender wage gap, their analysis estimates.

This certainly throws a wrench into the age - old gender wage gap debate: the highest - paid female CEO in America right now is 59 - year - old Martine Rothblatt — who was born a male.

Expert Market, a U.K. - based product comparison site, calculated the pay gap between genders in all 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C., using wage data from the National Women's Law Centre.

In fact, the authors of the study, who looked at wage data covering all U.S. companies from 1978 to 2012, found that the wage gap between the average worker at individual companies and the highest ranking executives (CEOs and other C - suiters) at those firms had only grown by a «small amount» in the past three - and - a-half decades.

This is mainly because the culture of tipping in the UK and America is so vastly different due to the gap in the minimum wage.

Instead, «it's telling us that getting women into management roles is necessary — but maybe not a sufficient condition for reducing the gender wage gap.»

A new study by the American Association of University Women sheds some light on the gender wage gap by examining the earnings of men and women one year post-graduation.

This means that if there is any hope of closing the gender wage gap, women must fundamentally change the way they plan their financial futures.

While Bush's business - themed policy proposals will likely offer a mixture of traditionally Republican tax cuts and so - called trickle down economics, he's likely to define his views on how to support the middle class, lift up the lowest wage workers, and close the income gap, which would continue on the themes he started talking about earlier this year.

I found his piece on the economic history of the black / white wage gap to be an essential read.

With that cheeky introduction by host Carlos Watson, the PBS debate show Point Taken last night dove headlong into the fractious debate of salary transparency that has been gaining steam of late, especially as a way to bridge widening wage gaps based on gender, race, and social class.

Bootstrapped companies and seed - stage ventures that used Hired.com had only a 4 percent gender - wage gap.

Throughout the event, speakers referred to statistics estimating that if India could close its gender wage gap by half, it would stand to gain $ 150 billion over three years.

Smaller companies, especially startups in pre-funding stage, tend to have a smaller wage gap.

«I do believe there is a wage gap.

The Economic Policy Institute reports, «the black - white wage gaps are larger today than they were in 1979.»

Women's retirement - savings balances generally tend to be lower on average than men's, due to the ongoing gender wage gap and the fact that women are more likely than me to take time off to raise kids or act as caregivers for other friends or relatives.

This piece looks at the gender wage gap in athletics by comparing the paycheck of UFC female champion Ronda Rousey to those of male MMA fighters with less impressive records.

And with more women working and an ever - narrowing wage gap, women's influence over shopping decisions should continue to increase.

Industries that have had the highest wage gaps are likely to continue along the same path until something forces them to change.

To close the median wage gaps, women need to earn more in comparison to men (or men need to earn less, but that would seem to be a self - defeating result for all).

In a salary analysis that looked at the earnings of more than 14,000 graduate business school alumni, GMAC found that female alumni experience a significant wage gap throughout their careers.

But there's a downside: those female managers are concentrated in industries with the largest gender wage gap.

You might think that more women in management should have reduced the wage gap, but apparently not.

In 1980 the gender wage gap was lower in occupations where women were highly represented, but by 2010 the effect was in the opposite direction — the gender wage gap is larger in positions with a higher proportion of women.

A large part of the wage gap reflects occupational segregation.

GMAC researchers conclude that a significant part of the wage gap comes from the fact that women enter b - school with lower salaries.

Many of the industries where women managers are concentrated have traditionally seen some of the greatest wage gaps by gender.

Hartmann believes that the dearth of women in positions of political power is directly related to the wage gap and their lack of power in the business world.

In this Business News podcast Mark Pownall, Matt Mckenzie, and Katie McDonald discuss the Quintis collapse, Wheatstone's environmental conditions, Doric's Chinese joint venture, wage gap battle, Fringe festival and land developers.

The initiative required companies to review their hiring practices, create policies to ensure equal pay and conduct an annual analysis on the gender wage gap.

If the 13 states that increased minimum wage levels in 2014, including California, Ohio and New York, introduced similar legislation, or if such legislation were taken up at the federal level, that gap, which sits at around 273:1, might begin to narrow.

With cities like Seattle raising minimum wage significantly higher than their state's mandate ($ 15 versus $ 9.32 per hour, in Seattle and Washington), minimum wage gaps» effect on competition and employment is becoming an issue across the country.

Out of the 25 metros, the narrowest gender wage gap overall is in Tampa, Florida, where women make approximately 89 % of the median salary for men — higher than the national average.

In Louisiana, for instance, the gender pay gap is 30 %, the biggest wage gap in the nation.

Asian women face the smallest wage gap — they earn 87 % of what white men earn, resulting in a pay gap of 13 %.

Over half a century after the US passed the Equal Pay Act, American women still face a substantial gender wage gap across the spectrum.

The exact figure remains to be seen, but the price tag on closing the gender wage gap in the public service and federally regulated workplaces, which together employ nearly 1.2 million people, will likely be significant.

If, in fact, an increase in the minimum wage were to result in a net increase in nominal aggregate spending, then we could eliminate any shortfall in aggregate demand relative to aggregate supply by merely boosting the minimum wage to whatever level necessary to eliminate the gap.

Canada has long struggled to tackle the wage gap, with the most recent numbers showing women on average earn 87 cents for every dollar made by a man.

At the time, «the image of the industry was so tarnished,» notes Evelyn Murphy, former lieutenant governor of Massachusetts and founder of the WAGE Project, a campaign to end the gender pay gap.

From where I'm sitting, that makes the top action item to combat the gender wage gap quite clear: Make pay more public — like the U.K. has just done and like the U.S., under President Obama, once aimed to do.