Gender Pay Gap and April 20th

Word on the street is that April 20th is equal pay day symbolising the number of days women had to work into 2010 to earn when men earned in 2009. I'll try share any interesting articles i come across on the day of.

A short article on the broader topic of gender and pay at the Wall Street Journal with an interesting chart. The chart disaggregates different kinds of careers and analyses the pay gap for each career. Some careers, like programmers, have very small gaps at 92.7%

http://blogs.wsj.com/juggle/2010/04/13/why-dont-women-earn-as-much-as-men/