Study: Higher education playing bigger role in gender wage gap

Courtesy http://www.eurekalert.org/rss/business.xml  Sat, 08/08/2009 - 22:00

(Ohio State University) While higher education has helped women narrow their long-running wage gap with men, there is one college-related factor that has becoming increasingly important in perpetuating that gap, according to new research.

And that factor is college major.


 

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