Gen Z Has Finally Closed The Gender Wage Gap In 22 Cities
How did they do it? Let’s take a moment to celebrate how fabulous these young women are
If you have a female Gen Zer within five feet of you, I need you to stop reading and hug them this second. I don’t care if the only young woman near you is a stranger with a scary resting bitch face that belies her fierce passion. I don’t care if you are on a train and she smells like ten-day-old bratwurst. I don’t even care what the MeToo movement says about inappropriate hugging. (That was a joke. No molesting Gen Zers, please.)
We need to take a moment to celebrate Gen Z because they have finally accomplished what Gen X and Millennials thought they would never see in their lifetime —these amazing young women have finally closed the gender wage gap.
We all know the narrative by now. Nationally, women earn 84% of what men earn. But that statistic only applies to us old farts. If you parse out Gen Z and examine salaries by city, young women are now making the same or more than men in the same age range.
Sorry, my internal editor is off duty. Indulge me and allow me to repeat the words I never thought I would write…
These young women are making the same or more than men in the same age range.
