ABSTRACT
The mtio is somewhat better among younger women; on average, as is shown in Table 14.3, women aged fifteen to twenty-four earned .88 of the male median wage, while women twenty-five to thirty-four earned .79. These data relating to gender disparity in earnings imply ongoing labor market discrimination against women. It is, however, important to note that recent studies of earnings differentials by gender, using data from the Current Population Surveys for 1971 and 1981, concluded that when adjustments are made to take account of differences in hours and weeks worked, the male-female earnings differential has become compressed during the 1970s.1 This is particularly true for younger women, whose relative qualifications reflect the greatest improvement.
