Report: Wisconsin Has Relatively Large Gender Pay Gap

Wisconsin has the nation’s 33rd largest gap between what men and women are paid. The American Association of University women says the median income for women in the Badger State last year was 78-percent of the men’s median — 39-thousand-440 dollars for women compared to 50-thousand-400 for men. Wisconsin’s pay gap of 22-percent is two-percent higher than the national figure. And officials say the gap has dropped since 1960, mainly because women have made progress in education and participation in the workforce, and men’s wages have been rising at a slower pace.