New IWPR Gender Wage Gap 2010 fact sheet

Re-post from the Institute for Women's Policy Research:

IWPR just updated their  Gender Wage Gap factsheet with the 2010 annual earnings figures: http://www.iwpr.org/publications/pubs/the-gender-wage-gap-2010/at_download/file

It dramatically illustrates the decline in progress on the gender wage gap: it narrowed by over ten percentage points between 1981 and 1990, by close to 4 percentage points between 1991 and 2000, and by less than one percentage point in this last decade, 2001 to 2010. The factsheet includes real earnings, and gender wage gap between women of different race/ethnic backgrounds and white males.

The ratio of women‟s and men‟s median annual earnings was 77.4 for full-time/year-round workers in 2010, essentially unchanged from 77.0 in 2009.