Federal Training - Reinforcing Wage Gap
Posted by bneufeld on February 4, 2010 at 11:17 am
A new study by IWPR shows that federally funded training may reinforce sex segregation and the gender wage gap. Women on average earn $1500 to $2000 less per quarter than men after federally funded career counseling or training. After completing services, women earn 79.5 percent of what men earn among adult participants and 74.1 percent of what men can earn among dislocated workers.
The wage gap is not due to less training: on average women received more weeks of WIA-funded training than men. WIA-funded services primarily train women for female-dominated, typically lower paying occupations and men for male-dominated, typically higher paying occupations.
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Tags:Add new tag, Gender Wage Gap, WIA, Workforce Investment Act
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