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There's two types of gender gaps: pay scale and professional employment.
The former is often cited, but rather dubious. Feminist groups often allege that women make only 70cents to the dollar made by men for the same tasks. But this is factually and theoretically false. First consider the theory: if it were true that women, for preforming the same duty, really did get paid 30% less than men then it has to be asked: why aren't women more heavily favored by employers? Any entrepreneurial investor would jump at the prospect for achieving the same level of productivity but at a third less the cost. We'd see profit-maximizing firms exclusively staffed by women. It would be so obvious to hire only, or at least more, women. And any business wanting to make more money would do so since it is their obvious interest. Unless one is a radical feminist who believes that men are hopeless misogynists, there must be another reason why we do not see all-women firms. We don't see this because it isn't true.
The $.70-$1 figure is a general statement that does not tell us much. It is an aggregate. But if one did a specific study it is often not that women are paid less, but just as much if not more than their equal standing male colleagues.
But it is true that women are still underrepresented in many corporate offices and amongst CEOs and promoted less than men within the corporate world. This is not mostly due to sexism. But often because many women take time off work to raise children, or divide their time between work and family and bosses prefer more singularly-focused individuals (which tend to be men), and there is also the corporate culture. Men will often go to, say, dinners and bars together and management decisions are often greatly influenced by such informal gatherings where women are often excluded.
But women are starting to close the gap amongst graduates:
The gender gap among college majors once dominated by men is narrowing, and younger generations of women account for nearly half of science and business graduates, a USA TODAY analysis of new Census data shows. In 2009, about 47% of science and engineering degree holders ages 25 to 39 were women, compared with 21% among those 65 and older. For business majors, about 48% of younger graduates were female — more than double that of older generations.
