In Part-Time Jobs, Women Out-Earn Men

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Highlights of Women’s Earnings in 2009.“ Data refer to the sole or principal job of full- and part-time workers, for wage and salary workers.

United States of Wage Gaps

The gap between men’s and women’s full-time earnings narrowed slightly in 2009, according to new data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.

For full-time, year-round workers, median earnings for women were 78.2 percent of men’s median earnings, or $35,549 compared with $45,485. In 2008, the ratio of women’s to men’s median earnings was 77.2 percent.

Women's earnings and employment by industry, 2009

Women who worked full time in wage and salary jobs had median weekly earnings of $657 in 2009. This represented 80 percent of men's median weekly earnings ($819).

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Evan Pugh Professors

The Evan Pugh Professor title is a prestigious honor that only 62 Penn State faculty members have been awarded since 1960. Of these awards, 57 have gone to men. The first woman to receive the Evan Pugh title was Dr. Judith Dunn (Human Development) in 1994. Since then, only 4 other women have been awarded this title. The chart below shows the breakdown of men and women earning this title by the year in which it was awarded. This is not awarded annually, so there are some gaps in the chart.

For more information on this, check out the PSU site:

http://www.research.psu.edu/about/faculty-staff-resources/faculty-honors-1/evan-pugh-professors