The difference between what men and women make is the biggest in Louisiana among all of the states, and including Washington, D.C., according to a New York Times analysis. Women who work full-time in Louisiana earned a median weekly pay that was 65% of what men earned, according to figures from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. Nationally, women earned a median weekly wage that was 80.2% of what men made in 2009. Washington, D.C., where much of the labor force is made up of government workers, had the smallest wage gap; women made 96.5% of what male employees earned. The Times notes that the numbers are skewed by the sorts of jobs that men and women go into. Men tend to work in jobs that pay better wages, such as construction, manufacturing and the oil and gas industry. See the full report here.
Report: La. worst for gender pay gap
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