New Stats

Recently I was doing some research for my blog and I found several articles that offered some eye opening statistics as far as women vs. men in the professional environment. Once again, discouraging for women.

In 2004, women in the United States were paid 76 cents for every dollar men received for comparable work.

• African American women earn only 71 cents and Latinas 59 cents for every dollar men are paid. Asian Pacific American women earn 86 cents for every dollar men make.

• Nationwide, working families lose $200 billion in income annually due to the wage gap between men and women.

• If married women were paid the same as men in comparable jobs, their family incomes would rise by nearly 6 percent, and their families' poverty rates would fall from 2.1 percent to 0.8 percent.

• If single working mothers earned as much as men in comparable jobs, their family incomes would increase by nearly 17 percent and their poverty rates would be cut in half, from 25.3 percent to 12.6 percent.

• If single women earned as much as men in comparable jobs, their incomes would rise by 13.4 percent and their poverty rates would be reduced from 6.3 percent to 1 percent.

• Half of all women with income from a pension in 2002 received less than $5,600 per year, compared with $10,340 per year for men.

• The 25.6 million women who work in predominantly male jobs lose an average of $3,446 each per year; the 4 million men who work in predominately female occupations lose an average of $6,259 each per year—a total $114 billion loss for men and women in predominately female jobs.

• In the global economy, women account for 60 percent of the world’s 550 million working poor—even though they make up 40 percent of the world’s workforce.