Conversation Starters: Progress on the Gender Pay Gap
Daniel Zhao
Chief Economist at Glassdoor | Apr 21, 2023
Women's median earnings are 84 percent of men's as of Q1 2023, according to new U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data on median weekly earnings released this week. This measure of the gender pay gap is coming close to the smallest level on record.
While the pandemic has been extremely disruptive, it has not derailed (the albeit slow) progress on closing the gender pay gap, as some worried earlier in the pandemic. The hot job market in the last two years has helped give more options to women and other underrepresented groups to find better-paying jobs.
Over the last few decades, much of the progress made on the gender pay gap has come from women joining the workforce in greater numbers. To continue that trend, more progress will need to be made in equal access to the job market for women whether by increasing affordability of childcare or lifting barriers to higher-paying jobs in tech or leadership.
Conversation Starters are a periodic series of charts and data points from Glassdoor’s Economic Research team aimed at sparking conversations on timely trends in employee satisfaction, workplace community, the future of work, and the labor market more broadly.
Daniel Zhao
Daniel Zhao is Chief Economist at Glassdoor. On Glassdoor's Economic Research team, he has conducted research using Glassdoor's unique data on a variety of topics affecting job seekers and employers ranging from the health of the job market to pay transparency to employee engagement & retention. His work has been cited in publications like the New York Times, the Harvard Business Review and more. Prior to joining the Economic Research team, he also worked on improving the user experience for Glassdoor’s consumer jobs product and mobile app. He holds a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics and economics from Harvard College.
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