The Chicago Tribune (via the Houston Chronicle) reports on new findings by economist Heather Boushey that women with children earn less than employed single women.
According to Heather Boushey, an economist with the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, women with children "earn from 3 to 10 percent less per child compared to employed women without children."
Boushey adds that when the figures are further broken down, "there is a bigger penalty for women with children for their second child than for their first."
The numbers: For the first child a woman has, the wage differential in comparison to nonmothers is from 2 to 10 percent less.
For the second child, the gap is from 4 to 16 percent less than for women with no children.
Women also make less than men in general and the gap is growing. Heather Boushey told the Tribune that women only make about 75.5% of what men make and that the gender salary gap has widened since 2001 and 2002.
