A new Labor Department report finds 'occupational segregation' is costing women billions of dollars.
Economists call this dynamic "occupational segregation"
The report, released Tuesday, ranks the nation's top 20 jobs with the highest median income. Only one – nurse practitioner – is dominated by women. Nine of them are more than 75% male, and the rest are relatively evenly split between men and women. However, eight of the jobs with the lowest pay are predominantly held by women.
The new data coincides with Equal Pay Day, held annually on March 15 to mark the additional time it takes the average woman to earn what the average man made by the end of the previous year. According to government data, a woman who worked full-time in 2020 was paid 82% of the wages of a man who worked full-time.report
The Labor Department has found that 42% of the wage gap is the result of occupational segregation, which was exacerbated by the pandemic. Women are heavily employed in many front-line industries that were hit hard by the lockdowns. And within those sectors, women were more likely to get laid off. "These jobs in these sectors are devalued because of the folks who are doing the work," Glynn said. "It's the fact that it's women – and often what color who are doing this labor – that has been shown to directly lead to its devaluation. And this is part of the reason why occupational segregation contributes to the wage gap."
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