I dunno, this along with the no docking/clipping thing is making me quite cheerful today.
Working women in their early twenties are close to catching up to their male counterparts in median earnings, according to Labor Department data. Women in most age groups have made gains since 1979, but full-time working women ages 65 and older have gained no ground in closing the wage gap.
The graph from the Labor Department shows women's weekly earnings as a percentage of men's in 1979 and 2008, by age group.
The gap narrowed for women ages 25 to 34--they earned 89 percent of what men did in 2008, compared with 68 percent in 1979. The ratio for women-to-men ages 45 to 54 jumped from 57 percent in 1979 to 75 percent last year.
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