Thinking of a job selling clothes? Better try a men’s store -- and avoid women’s wear -- if you want to make decent money.
Workers at men’s apparel stores earned an average $23.13 an hour in November, a whopping 56 percent more than the $14.81 wage at women’s retailers -- a gap that’s widened from less than 10 percent about two years earlier, according to Labor Department data. That’s bigger than can be explained by gender-pay differences that persist across hundreds of occupations.
