Figure 2.14: Women’s earnings and employment by industry, 2009. On average, women earned less than 80 percent of men’s median income in 2009 if they worked full time in a wage or salary job: $630 a week compared to men’s $819.

[Source consulted: “Women’s Earnings and Employment by Industry, 2009,” U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, February 16, 2011, at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2011/ted_20110216.htm]