According to Pew Research, job opportunities look much different than they did 50 years ago for American women. Gains have been made in labor force participation and wages, and women increased their presence in the highest-paying jobs. Some of that progress has stalled in recent years, however, and large gender gaps persist at the top levels of government and business leadership.
Women outnumber men in the U.S. college-educated workforce, now making up 51% of those ages 25 and older, about a third of workers in the country’s 10 highest-paying occupations (35%) are women – up from 13% in 1980, the share of women in opposite-sex marriages who earn as much as or more than their husband has roughly tripled over the past 50 years, and the gender pay gap – the difference between the median earnings of men and women – has remained relatively flat in the United States over the past two decades.
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https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/02/27/for-womens-history-month-a-look-at-gender-gains-and-gaps-in-the-us/
