Study notes gender pay gap
By Katt Henry and Andy Mullan | April 26, 2007It's still a man's world, according to a study released by the American Association of University Women that examines the careers of men and women who have recently graduated from college and reevaluates these individuals 10 years later. The AAUW's study examined the salaries of men and women with an undergraduate college education, and found that women make 74 cents for every dollar made by their male counterparts. The study was released following Tuesday's Equal Pay Day, which, according to the AAUW, marked the day on which the cumulative earnings of women starting in 2006 caught up with the amount of money men earned in 2006 alone. According to Judy Goldberg Dey, co-author of the study, the research broke down the gender pay gap over a period of time. "What we were doing was looking at young women and men right out of college and then 10 years after graduation," Golberg Dey said. According to Goldberg Dey, immediately after college women make 80 percent of what men make, and the gap grows larger as time goes on. University Politics Prof.
