The gender pay gap, which is the difference between the earnings of men and women, has been stuck for years.
In 1982, women earned just 65 cents to each dollar earned by men. The differential narrowed, but since 2002, the numbers have barely budged. In 2022, U.S. women typically earned 82 cents for every dollar earned by men.
It would be great if there were a single cause of the differential, because then policy makers and employers might be able to craft a solution.
But the Department of Labor has found “that the majority of the gap between men and women’s wages cannot be explained through measurable differences between