大学英语外报外刊阅读教程(第二版)课件+教学参考手册 (4)[31页]

Lesson 4
Men with children appear to get an earnings boost, whereas women lose earnings. Men with children earn about 2% more on average than men without children, according to the findings, whereas women with children earn about 2.5% less than women without children. However, the long-lamented pay gap between men and women is finally closing, according to a new study released September 1, 2010. Conducted by the research firm Reach Advisors, the study finds that that unmarried, childless women age 22-30 who live in cities are earning more than their male counterparts.
Lesson 4
Women in the workforce are less likely to work a full-time schedule and are more likely to leave the labor force for longer periods of time than men, further suppressing women's wages. These differing work patterns lead to an even larger earnings gap between men and women - suggesting that working women are penalized for their dual roles as wage earners and those who disproportionately care for home and family.
Lesson 4
These findings held true for 147 of the largest 150 cities in the US. The best news came out of Atlanta and Memphis, where women in this demographic group are earning up to 21% more than men. The same higher earnings trend for women exists in other large cities including New York (17%), San Diego (15%) and Los Angeles (12%), and even smaller urban areas such as Raleigh-Durham, NC (14%) and Charlotte, NC (14%).
Lesson 4
Biblioteka Baidu
The role reversal in the earnings gap is due to education: Nearly three-quarters of girls who graduate from high school head to college, vs. two-thirds of the boys. But they don't stop there. Women are now 1.5 times more likely than men to graduate from college or earn advanced degrees." US Census figures from 2006-2008 show that of the total population age 25-34 with a bachelor's degree or higher, 32.7% were women and only 25.8% were men.
By Esther Addley and Randeep Ramesh
Despite a sense of continued progress toward gender equality in the workplace, the federal government has confirmed that the workplace earnings gap between men and women still persists today. According to General Accountability Office, the weekly earnings of full-time working women were about three-fourths of men's during 2001. The report was prepared from a study of the earnings history of over 9,300 Americans for the last 18 years.
大学英语
外报外刊阅读教程
（第二版）
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Lesson 4
Lesson 4
Unequal pay leaves women £ 369,000 worse off