young women in NYC and now earning more than men
New York Times - August 3, 2007 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/nyregion/03women.html?ref=nyregion&pagewanted=print
For Young Earners in Big City, a Gap in Women’s Favor By SAM ROBERTS
Young women in New York and several of the nation’s other largest
cities who work full time have forged ahead of men in wages,
according to an analysis of recent census data.
The shift has occurred in New York since 2000 and even earlier in Los
Angeles, Dallas and a few other cities.
Economists consider it striking because the wage gap between men and
women nationally has narrowed more slowly and has even widened in
recent years among one part of that group: college-educated women in
their 20s. But in New York, young college-educated women’s wages as a
percentage of men’s rose slightly between 2000 and 2005.
The analysis was prepared by Andrew A. Beveridge, a demographer at
Queens College, who first reported his findings in Gotham Gazette,
published online by the Citizens Union Foundation. It shows that
women of all educational levels from 21 to 30 living in New York City
and working full time made 117 percent of men’s wages, and even more
in Dallas, 120 percent. Nationwide, that group of women made much
less: 89 percent of the average full-time pay for men.