What is the difference between what women earn compared to men in the workforce, by percentage?

Question

Over the broad sprectrum throughout the workforce do men earn more money for the same jobs?

Answer 1

The same numbers appear to be true for most Western countries. Women earn less than men.

Recent efforts to document the real situation of women worldwide have produced some alarming statistics on the economic and social gaps between women and men. Women are the majority of the world's poor and the number of women living in rural poverty has increased by 50 per cent since 1975. Women are the majority of the world's illiterate; the number rose from 543 million to 597 million between 1970 and 1985. Women in Asia and Africa work 13 hours a week more than men and are mostly unpaid. Worldwide, women earn 30 to 40 per cent less than men for doing equal work. Women hold between 10 and 20 per cent of managerial and administrative jobs worldwide and less than 20 per cent of jobs in manufacturing. Women make up less than 5 per cent of the world's heads of State. Women's unpaid housework and family labour, if counted as productive output in national accounts, would increase measures of global output by 25 to 30 per cent.(1)

Answer 2

I read this in an article before. I think the percentage is something like 20% or 30%. Women earn less even with the same position, qualifications and experience. They earn less for simply being women.

Answer 3

Not exactly. Men earn more in total. But when adjusted for hours worked, it is the same. In other words, men and women are paid exactly the same amount per hour on average across all occupations but men make more by working more hours.

Answer 4

my professor said that women make 77 cents to men's every dollar....