And did Bigelow have to work harder for this achievement than her male peers?
They enter the work force with high expectations and are as educated and prepared as their male peers.
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Women have also been shown to compare their salaries to their female friends rather than their male peers.
Clearly they are having an even better success rate than their male peers.
Using the class of 2009 as the study sample, the report found that women working full time earn an average of 82% of what their male peers earn.
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There was no apparent Boys Club in the common room, nor did the male doctors treat the female students as less knowledgeable or hard working than our male peers.
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We are working to change that, and to encourage an environment where women can work and feel safe while they earn a comparable salary to that of their male peers.
Varda keenly observes the rhythms and textures of daily life in a working-class suburb of Paris while keeping an eye on the way that her male peers approach the same theme.
However, women continue to earn significantly less than their male peers in every educational cohort and stage of life, making approximately 80 cents for every dollar earned by men.
Despite these gains, women continue to face significant leadership and wage gaps, earning just 82% as much as their male peers earn just one year out of college.
Additionally, women leaders are more likely than their male peers to demonstrate types of leadership behavior that improve corporate organizational performance, including participative decision-making, role modeling, inspiration, expectations and rewards, and mentoring (p. 7).
According to a recent report by the American Association of University Women (AAUW), college-educated women working full time earn only 82% on average of what their male peers earn just one year out of college.
According to an article titled Friends in High Places in the most recent issue of Working Mother magazine, lack of sponsorship is one of the key reasons why women are not advancing as quickly as their male peers.
Big rises in the minimum wage, an increase in formal jobs and entry into fields long dominated by men all mean the gap between the pay of poorly educated women and that of their male peers has started to shrink.
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Professor Bob Morris, honorary senior research fellow at University College London's Constitution Unit, says it could actually be easier to abolish hereditary peers in the Lords than make changes to male primogeniture.
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