Women's weekly earnings as a percent of men's by age, 
annual averages, 1979-2005


	16 to 24	25 to 34	35 to 44	45 to 54 
	years	   	years		years		years

1979	78.5		67.4		58.3		56.9
1980	80.1		69.4		58.4		56.9
1981	82.6		70.4		59.9		56.8
1982	85.3		72.1		61.2		60.1
1983	88.6		73.3		61.5		59.5
1984	87.9		74.5		61.9		59.4
1985	87.5		75.1		63.1		59.7
1986	88.9		76.2		64.0		61.0
1987	88.1		76.8		66.1		62.3
1988	90.0		77.7		68.4		61.8
1989	90.7		78.4		68.1		62.7
1990	90.1		79.2		69.7		63.8
1991	93.3		80.9		70.8		64.9
1992	94.0		82.0		71.9		65.8
1993	94.8		82.9		73.0		67.3
1994	93.7		82.9		72.5		67.1
1995	90.8		82.4		72.7		67.8
1996	92.4		83.2		73.2		68.9
1997	92.1		82.9		74.0		69.4
1998	91.3		83.0		73.5		70.5
1999	91.0		81.5		71.7		70.1
2000	92.0		82.5		71.5		73.2
2001	90.2		83.0		72.6		73.5
2002	93.7		84.4		75.2		74.5
2003	93.3		87.0		76.2		73.0
2004	93.7		87.9		75.6		73.0
2005	93.2		89.1		75.6		75.4