[ACM-W] Earnings Gap Narrower for Women in IT

[Bettina Bair]

Here's some good news for Women in IT, especially computer software
engineers.
:-)

Earnings Gap Narrower for Women in IT
CRA Bulletin (04/25/08) Vegso, Jay

http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=142

The difference in what men earn and what women earn is lower in several
professional-level IT occupations than it is in the overall workforce,
according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The median weekly earnings for women in all occupations last year was $614,
or 80 percent of men's median weekly earnings. But women who were *computer
software engineers* fared better, with median weekly earnings that were 87
percent of men's median weekly earnings. Meanwhile, female *computer and
information systems managers'* median weekly earnings of $1,363 amounted to
85 percent of the $1,596 men in the same position earned. Conversely, the
biggest pay gap between men and women in professional-level IT professions
was in the network systems and data communications analyst position. The
median weekly earnings for women in that position amounted to just 72
percent of men's median weekly earnings.
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