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March 1998

Earnings of college graduates: women compared with men

Daniel Hecker

Among college graduates, women earned 73 percent as much as men in 1993; however, when earnings of women were compared with those of men in the same major field of study, at the same degree level, and in the same age group, about half of the women earned at least 87 percent as much as men

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