As of 2024, women working full-time earn 81 cents for every one dollar earned by men. Over a 40-year career, this gap equates to $542,800 in lost wages for full-time working women. Women earn less per dollar compared to their male counterparts in all 50 states and Washington, D.C.
Linda T. Alepin, the Dean's Executive Professor of Leadership at Santa Clara University in California, has been selected to receive the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund Award from the American Association of University Women.
The American Association of University Women study found that one year after women graduate from college they earn 82 cents on the dollar compared to men who had recently completed college.
