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Podcast: Women at Work
Episode: Mind the (Wage) Gap
Description: Do you earn the same salary as your male coworkers? How certain are you? For women, the wage gap is a common concern, for good reason: the average, college-educated woman starts out earning close to what her male peers do, but over a lifetime, the pay gap widens. Even for women who graduate from college, get an MBA, and take a job at a high-paying firm — 10 or 15 years into our careers, we’re earning only 60 percent of what men are.
There are a lot of complex factors that go into creating the wage gap — race, education, industry. Amy, S...