Significant Pay Gap Amongst Genders

The May 7, 2007 issue of Time magazine reports that women are earning 20% less than their male counterparts across the nation with the pay gap widening over time. Louisiana had the biggest pay disparity with women earning 64% of what men earn, West Virginia and Washington, D.C show women earning 89% of a man's salary.

In fairness, however, it should be noted that the report was conducted by the American Association of Univeristy Women as a population study. It does not reveal if the study compared men and women in a similar career field, if it took in to account the time (some) women take off to have a family, etc. There are many variables to consider when conducting such a study and the Time magazine article does not go into that.