Why is her paycheck smaller?

[flexagon]

A really interesting and pretty chart of something ugly:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/01/business/20090301_WageGap.html

Women apparently make make 12% or 15% less than men in my field, depending on whether that field is "computer programming" or "software engineering".

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[nahele-101.livejournal.com]

hmmm...

[motyl.livejournal.com]

Sounds like they didn't do the obvious fixes of adjusting for hours worked and such. I'd be curious to see graphs after those transformations.