From bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu Sat Apr 26 09:18:05 2008 From: bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu (Bettina Bair) Date: Sat Apr 26 09:18:20 2008 Subject: [OCWIC] Earnings Gap Narrower for Women in IT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5d1a6f030804260618i7f1ff083g322015177dc296d7@mail.gmail.com> 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/pipermail/ocwic/attachments/20080426/631286b6/attachment.html