The article entitled, "Professor Pay Reveals Gender Gap," discusses the wage differences between male and female professors. This article speaks about the pay gap between male and female professors at Universities. This article was fairly short but one point made stood out. "Academe, an annual publication listing university employment statistics, showed male professors have an average salary of $102,500; compared to $89,300 for female full professors. In 1998, male full professors made an average of $88,200, while female full professors made $75,400." This point illustrates again that the pay differences between male and female workers is noticeable in many different industries. .
The last article that I found on the web which provided me with a lot of valuable data was the article entitled, Women's Earnings in 2000" and was done by the UAW. The UAW is the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America and is one of the largest and most diverse unions in North America, with members in virtually every sector of the economy. It's represented workplaces range from multinational corporations, small manufacturers and state and local governments to colleges and universities, hospitals and private non-profit organizations. There are more than 950 local unions in the UAW. The UAW currently has contracts with some 3,200 employers in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Because the UAW represents such a vast range of workplaces I feel that the facts mentioned in this article are a good reflection of pay and the gender gap. .
The article has three main sections; The Gender Gap; Narrower but Persistent, Education and the Wage Gap, and Gender Gap in Pay Increases with Age. In the first section the main point is that the gender pay gap has narrowed considerably, although over the most recent years the rise has been flattening out. Basically, the narrowing of the gender gap is a good news and bad news story.
