The Gender Pay Gap

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/the-gender-pay-gap-by-industry/?emc=eta1

A lot of work has been done on the gender pay gap by some good people. This data is good and comes from the BLS which is an excellent source. The variation by industry is especially interesting. So, while the overall average is women at 80% of their male counterparts, the construction sector, for example, has relatively little difference in the typical pay received by men and women: women earn 92.2 cents on the dollar of what men earn.