USA Today reports on the new gender gap in earnings for the under-30 age group. Contrary to the drumbeat of oppression preached by NOW and like-minded organizations, it is men — not women — who are on the short end of the earning stick in many cities, including Raleigh/Durham.
Single, childless women in their twenties are finding success in the city: They’re out-earning their male counterparts in the USA’s biggest metropolitan areas.
Women ages 22 to 30 with no husband and no kids earn a median $27,000 a year, 8% more than comparable men in the top 366 metropolitan areas, according to 2008 U.S. Census Bureau data crunched by the New York research firm Reach Advisors and released Wednesday. The women out-earn men in 39 of the 50 biggest cities and match them in another eight. The disparity is greatest in Atlanta, where young, childless single women earn 21% more than male counterparts.
Fascinating, and it is one of many significant data points that illustrate those who continue to decry the sad state of opportunity for women are simply wrong.
