The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) released the first cut of its 2013 data yesterday. Time, then, for another update on the age-related gender pay gap, which regulars will know I’ve been keeping an eye on for a while.
As most of the papers report, the gender pay gap has gone up. Even among full-time workers it has increased slightly, though it is still lower than it was at the start of the recession.
The gap that had been opening up between the pay of men and women in their twenties, with women earning more, has closed again. The gender pay gap has increased among all other age groups except those in the 18-21 range where it has fallen from 5.7 to 1.4 percent. Some people predicted that the recession would hit women harder than men. The slight reversal of the full-time gender pay gap trends may…
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