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The Gender Gap Gully

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Seth Fischer

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“In 2008, single, childless women between ages 22 and 30 were earning more than their male counterparts in most U.S. cities.”

Some new census data is showing that the gender gap has not only slowed but reversed in this very small segment of the population.

Before you start celebrating that this is the beginning of the end of wage inequality, however, take a look at some of these analyses, which show this might not be such a good sign after all.

(Thanks to Orion Elenzil for the title.)

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Seth Fischer
Seth Fischer’s writing has twice been listed as notable in The Best American Essays and has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize by several publications, including Guernica. He was the founding Sunday editor at The Rumpus and is the current nonfiction editor at The Nervous Breakdown. He is a Dornsife PhD Fellow at USC and been awarded fellowships and residencies by Ucross, Lambda Literary, Jentel, Ragdale, and elsewhere, and he teaches at the UCLA-Extension Writer’s Program and Antioch University, where he received his MFA.

2 responses

  1. Michael Hollander Avatar
    Michael Hollander

    so women make as much money as men until kids?

  2. Seth Fischer Avatar
    Seth Fischer

    Young, urban women with no kids made more money than young, urban men with no kids in 2008. That’s the only thing this data shows. I don’t think you could say that women make as much money as men until kids.

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