Gender Pay
GAO Report on Low-Wage Earners’ Compensation
The following is a Government Accountability Office (GAO) response to a congressional request that GAO examine the differences in representation, key characteristics, and pay among certain groups of women and men. Over the past 30 years, the size of the U.S. workforce has grown from about 75 million to over 115 million workers, with women representing an increasingly larger share. By the end of 2010, women made up nearly half (47 percent) of the workforce, up from 41 percent in 1980. During the same period, the percentage of women who worked rose 10 percentage points to just over 66 percent, while the…
