{"id":1511,"date":"2011-11-04T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2011-11-23T09:54:50","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T16:54:50","slug":"idaho-and-the-wage-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/11\/04\/idaho-and-the-wage-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho and the Wage Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1525\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/11\/04\/idaho-and-the-wage-gap\/checking-out\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1525\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1525\" title=\"Checking Out\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/11\/11-4-Wage-Gap-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/11\/11-4-Wage-Gap-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/11\/11-4-Wage-Gap-620x503.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/11\/11-4-Wage-Gap-220x178.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Hulton Archive \/ Getty Images<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Women workers, recording and moving ingots in 1943<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Government Accountability Office has released a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gao.gov\/products\/GAO-12-10\" target=\"_blank\">new report <\/a>on the persistent wage gap between working men and women.\u00a0 Specifically, the report considers workers who have less education and earn lower wages.\u00a0 Among its findings: &#8220;Even when less-educated women and men were in the same broad industry or occupation category, these women&#8217;s average hourly wage was lower than men&#8217;s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for the wage gap on the whole, <em>The New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/03\/gender-gap-on-wages-is-slow-to-close\/\" target=\"_blank\">sums it up<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Adjusted for factors that could affect pay, like age, race, education, number of children in the household and part-time status, women earn 86 cents for every $1 earned by men. That\u2019s up from 81 cents in 2000.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the most recent (non-adjusted) numbers available from the Idaho Department of Labor, Idaho&#8217;s wage gap is considerable.\u00a0 From the fourth quarter of 2009 through the third quarter of 2010, working Idaho women earned not quite 62% of the amount earned by working Idaho men.<\/p>\n<p>The department&#8217;s most recent analysis of the wage gap is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/263425-dol-wage-gap-report.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government Accountability Office has released a new report on the persistent wage gap between working men and women.\u00a0 Specifically, the report considers workers who have less education and earn lower wages.\u00a0 Among its findings: &#8220;Even when less-educated women and men were in the same broad industry or occupation category, these women&#8217;s average hourly wage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":1525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[233,74],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2244,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions\/2244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}