Most studies suggest that when women and men do the
same job and have the experience, pay rates tend to be
similar. Most of the dollar differences stem from fact that --71.
women tend to be more recently employed and have more --72.
years on the job. Whether women who have started a career
will attain pay equality with men rest on at least two factors. --73.
First, will most of them continue part time at their jobs after --74.
they have children? A break in its employment, or a decision --75.
to work part time, will slow its raises and promotions
because it would for men. Second, will male-dominated --76.
companies elevate women to higher-paid jobs at the different --77.
rate as they elevate men? On some fields, this had clearly not --78.
happened. Many men, for example, have committed their --79.
lives to teaching careers, yet relative few have become --80.
principals or headmasters.