Study: Women Earning Less Than Men Immediately After Graduating College

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<p>"For anyone who thinks that the pay gap between men and women is something that doesn’t begin until later in their careers, or that this salary disparity is a disappearing relic of a bygone era, a new study claims that within one year of graduating from college, women are only earning 82% of what their male counterparts are making." ...</p>

<p>Parents and recent women grads: Can you confirm or debunk?</p>

<p>Study:</a> Women Earning Less Than Men Immediately After Graduating College ? The Consumerist</p>

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<p>Didn’t the gap used to be 66%? We are making progress!! Keep pushing onward and upward, ladies! </p>

<p>Actually, I heard about a group at an academic institution that was putting together a study on how to equalize the pay disparity by gender, and the team of men and women discovered that the team itself had a pay disparity by gender!</p>

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<p>Not what it said. Real gap after adjustments is just 6.6%. See long thread on this already.</p>