Over a lifetime of work, a woman with a bachelor’s degree will earn a third less (some $700,000) than a man with the same degree. This pattern holds in nearly all fields of endeavor.
The Daily Beast
Today women make up half of the educated workforce and are earning advanced degrees in unprecedented numbers. But as a result of new barriers and old biases, they aren’t getting to the top at the rate we would expect.
The new soft war on women: stalling on the career ladder (The Daily Beast)