From the Women at Work podcast:
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Do you earn the same salary as your male coworkers? How certain are you? For women, the wage gap is a common concern, for good reason: the average, college-educated woman starts out earning close to what her male peers do, but over a lifetime, the pay gap widens. Even for women who graduate from college, get an MBA, and take a job at a high-paying firm — 10 or 15 years into our careers, we’re earning only 60 percent of what men are.
There are a lot of complex factors that go into creating the wage gap — race, education, industry — but in this episode, we do a deep dive into one that doesn’t get as much attention: age. What’s going on in our careers that causes us to earn so much less as we get older? Guests: Claudia Goldin and Margaret Gullette.
Guests:
Claudia Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and director of the Development of the American Economy program at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Margaret Gullette is a scholar at Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center. Her most recent book is Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People.
Resources:
- “The Average Mid-Forties Male College Graduate Earns 55% More Than His Female Counterparts” by Erling Barth, Claudia Goldin, Sari Pekkala Kerr, and Claudia Olivetti
- “Ending the Wage Gap” by Sudip Datta, Abhijit Guha, and Mai Iskandar-Datta
- “Women Dominate College Majors That Lead to Lower-Paying Work” by Sarah Green Carmichael
- “Everyone Likes Flex Time, but We Punish Women Who Use It” by David Burkus
- “How the Gender Pay Gap Widens as Women Get Promoted” by Lydia Frank
- “The Maternal Wall” by Joan C. Williams
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