Before we get all bent out of shape about the “End of Men,” let’s remember that women still earn less than men in the same jobs. Unemployment has taken a bigger toll on men, but it has not improved the relative salary position of women, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 2009, the average woman made 80% of a man’s weekly wage. It depends what job women do: “Women in construction — over five and a half hundred thousand (.01 percent of total women employed in 2009) — made 92.2 percent of men’s weekly salaries. While women in finance, who earned bigger weekly paycheck only earned 70.5 percent of their male counterparts’ salaries.” See the Huffington Post.

–Fran