In fact, a "major part of the earnings gap is simply due to women managers being female."
There remains an earnings gap between men and women in comparable scientific positions.
It is not just the earnings gap that has widened.
This 15 to 20 percent earnings gap held steady throughout the end of the 1970's.
For the second year in a row, the earnings gap between men and women increased.
Yet, there are other causes of the earnings gap besides education.
I need only point out that the earnings gap between East and West is around 60%.
If the directive went ahead, it would narrow the earnings gap between women and men.
This is revealed not only by the earnings gap between men and women.
Today the earnings gap between the high-school and college educated is the biggest it has been since the early 40's.