Male-Female Wage Gap Signficantly Widening for Young Workers

y disparities between men and women start earlier in their careers than widely assumed and have significantly widened for young workers in the past year, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute.þþPaychecks for young female college graduates are about 79 percent as large as those of their male peers, the think tank found - a big drop from 84 percent last year.þþThe jump follows a more gradual shift. In 2000, women ages 21 to 24 with college degrees earned on average 92 percent of their male counterparts' wages, which was unchanged from 1990.þþThe growing gap was driven by an 8.1 percent increase in young college-educated men's wages since 2000 and a 6.8 percent decrease in young college-educated women's, adjusted for inflation.