Indiana Public Radio

7 days ago

Ball State University economics professor Michael Hicks says the report doesn’t fairly break down the data.

“If you add up the wages of all the men and all the women in Indiana, divide it by the number of men and women working, there’s a gender pay gap that looks pretty bad; 75 percent,” he says. “When you compare people in the same occupation with the same educational attainment, who’ve been working the same number of years, that pay gap largely disappears.” ...