Behind the Pay Gap

Pay gap exists as early as one year out of college,says new U.S. research report

New research released in April 2007 by the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation shows that just one year out of college, women working full time already earn less than their male colleagues, even when they work in the same field. Ten years after graduation, the pay gap widens.

The report also includes other findings:

• Women who attended highly selective colleges earn less than men from either highly or moderately selective colleges and about the same as men from minimally selective colleges.
• Ten years after graduation, women are more likely than men to complete some graduate education.
• Men and women remain segregated by college major, with women making up 79 percent of education majors and men making up 82 percent of engineering majors. This segregation is found in the workplace as well, where women make up 74 percent of the education field and men make up 84 percent of the engineering and architecture fields.
  
  LINK: American Association of University Women Educational Foundation