The Jobs With the Highest Gender Pay Gaps
Achieving wage equity is an uphill battle for women who are computer programmers, chefs, and dentists.
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It's hard to argue that women don't take some kind of salary penalty—most studies have found some gap between what the genders earn—but in some fields, women are at a particular disadvantage, new research shows.
A report released on Wednesday by salary website Glassdoor found that that women are paid, on average, five cents less on the dollar than men in the same position who are equally qualified and work at the same company. The study, which analyzed 505,000 salary reports from full-time employees in 25 industries, adjusted for such factors as age, experience, company, state, industry, level of education, and job title. Female computer scientists endure the largest gap, at 28 percent.