Question

If there are pay differences between men and women, discrimination has been given as one possible reason or interpretation of this difference. Using what you have learned about variability within a group, answer the following questions to see if there might be alternate interpretations: 1) Is there a particular group of women within the larger group of women that might be lowering the overall pay average for women? 2) Is there a particular group of men with in the larger group of men that might be raising the overall average for men?

Answer 1

According to data from the US Census Bureau, the average gender pay gap in the United States in 2018 was around 18.9%, meaning that a woman working a full-time, year-round job earns 81.1% as much as her male counterpart earns. The pay gap varies, however, by state.

Ans-1

The gender pay gap in the United States is the ratio of female-to-male median or average (depending on the source) yearly earnings among full-time, year-round workers. The average woman's unadjusted annual salary has been cited as 81% to 82% of that of the average man's.

Ans.2.   In observance of Equal Pay Day (March 31, 2020), PayScale has updated our tremendously popular Gender Pay Gap Report for 2020. Since we have started tracking the gender pay gap, the difference between the earnings of women and men has shrunk, but only by an incremental amount each year. There remains a disparity in how men and women are paid, even when all compensable factors are controlled, meaning that women are still being paid less than men due to no attributable reason other than gender