The growing gap between millennial men and women's wages

A recent survey shows stark and ominous data that the income gap between genders is growing and young people should react

The firing of New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson raised a firestorm of controversy surrounding gender equity. Reports suggest Abramson was unhappy at being paid less than her (male) predecessor in the post, and had hired a lawyer to represent her.

It was a firestorm, but with both Abramson and her boss, Arthur Sulzberger, in the Boomer generation, how much of the problem was generational? Young women watching Abramson’s story unfold may have drawn comfort from at least one recent study suggesting that whatever other problems they might face in the workplace, a gender pay gap is less likely to be one of them. At least, that was the conclusion of a Pew Research Center study released last December that focused on the attitudes and experiences of millennials.