But new research indicates that, even when women are their own bosses, the gender pay gap persists.
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So, what we really have now in terms of the gender pay gap is several things interacting.
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The Office for National Statistics calculates the gender pay gap at 17.1%, up from 17% the year before.
And it helps women stabilize their financial situations, increasing their earning power and decreasing the gender pay gap.
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Good news from the UK in the latest statistical release: we seem to have solved the gender pay gap.
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The gender pay gap rears its head again at about the same time that the average woman has her first child.
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But, I can hear the cries already, what about the fact that over all women there is still a gender pay gap?
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The continuing gender pay gap and the fact that men dominate senior positions in public life, show up where the real discrimination is, she argues.
Which is why people pander and politicize the gender pay gap.
According to a comprehensive survey by Dice, a 22-year-old website that specializes in technology jobs, the gender pay gap has disappeared in the tech sector.
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As all serious analysts of the subject have been saying for some years now the gender pay gap is really over as a serious topic of discussion.
Interestingly, the gender pay gap is widest for those with an advanced degree, suggesting that discrimination is most severe in highly skilled fields, like finance and law.
Elsewhere in the managerial hierarchy, the gender pay gap endures.
As the Obama administration puts increased focus on paycheck fairness this week, news that the gender pay gap has widened over the past 12 months hits us doubly hard.
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So we cannot take the gender pay gap of current senior executives of being indicative of what is going to happen to the current generation of 20 years olds.
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To mark Equal Pay Day yesterday, the Department of Labor released a set of reports on the gender pay gap and what the Administration has done to address it.
Even more striking, Dice says that when it first started the survey four years ago, there was also no evidence of a gender pay gap, when it controlled for education and experience.
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According to a study by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), if current salary trends continue, it will take another 57 years for the gender pay gap to close in the United Kingdom.
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To help close the gap, Ms Wilton said the CMI wanted the government "to scrutinise organisational pay, demand more transparency from companies on pay bandings and publicly expose organisations found guilty of fuelling the gender pay gap".
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The United States, where just over 3%% of major CEOs are women and the gender pay gap hovers around 70 cents on the dollar, ranks at No. 22, down from 17 in 2011 and 19 in 2010.
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But they could also help him (and me) to put a muzzle on the many naysayers (male and female, out in the world and even here on our very own site) who continue to deny the existence of the gender pay gap or any shred of discrimination in the workforce.
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Demand Equal Pay for Women is just a page of data, though its developers have done some of their own calculations on top of the public data, and the site has some good statistics: closing the gender pay gap, they say, would add half a trillion dollars to the consumer economy.
In a previous blog, How To Reduce Workplace Gender Segregation And Help Women Obtain Higher Paying Jobs, I discussed how workplace gender segregation holds women back from obtaining higher paying jobs that could help reduce the pay gap between women and men.
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