Brookings has an interesting article on the long term earnings trends for women. Since 1963 the median, inflation adjusted income for a women who works full-time has increased by 56%.
Also interesting is the median income for all women has gone from $0 in 1963 to roughly $20,000 in 2009 (chart from Brookings).
The reason the median is $0 for all women in 1963 is less than half of adult women participated in the workforce back then. Today the workforce participation rate for adult women in near 70%.
Although the median earnings for men is higher than women, during this period men have seen an overall decline in earnings. As the chart below shows, men's inflation adjusted median earnings peaked in the mid-1970s.
The charts also show the Great Recession hit men much harder than women, which is why many refer to it as a "mancession".
One of the key drivers of the the long term growth of women's earnings (and the decline in men's) is education. Over the last couple of decades women have passed men in most measures of educational achievement.
This advantage in education is a key reaon we expect women's wages to continue to grow relative to men. It is also one reason we are forecasting the next decade to be a she-conomy.
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