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Highlights of Women's Earnings in 2007
In 2007, women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median weekly earnings of $614, or about 80 percent of
the $766 median for their male counterparts. This ratio has grown since 1979 (the first year for which comparable earnings
data are available), when women earned about 62 percent as much as men. (See chart 1 and tables 1 and 12.)
This report presents earnings data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), a national monthly survey of approximately 60,000
households conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Information on earnings is collected
from one-fourth of the CPS sample each month. Readers should note that the comparisons of earnings in this report are on a broad
level and do not control for many factors that can be significant in explaining earnings differences. For a detailed description of
the source of the data and an explanation of the concepts and definitions used, see the accompanying technical note. http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswom2007.pdf
Make sure you check out the following links to pages on this Web site:
- Learn about NCRC, our mission, and our approach.
- Who sits on the NCRC Advisory Board? Find out here.
- Get to know our Staff members.
- Confused about what a nontraditional career is, exactly? Find out more here.
- Learn more about What NCRC Can Do For You - and for your students, particularly:
- Take advantage of our Workshops and Speakers Bureau
- Learn about trends in non-traditional careers by following our NCRC public blog.
- Check out our publications and research for academic thinking on non-traditional careers.
- Use the Could This Be Your Life game as a resource when working with students.