According to the AAUW, the earnings gap between women and men in the United States is $.79 to the dollar. But what is it for lawyers? Plumbers? Electrical engineers? Doctors? The Wall Street Journal has just put out this amazing interactive chart that lets you look up the US gender gap for any of 446 occupations: http://graphics.wsj.com/gender-pay-gap/
Through it, I learned that there are only seven occupations in which women earn more than men. I also found out that female sociologists only makes 79% of much of their male counterparts. Hmmm, maybe I should ask for a raise.
Professor Carolyn Hsu