In 2023, the gender pay gap still costs women about $90,000 in lifetime earnings. That’s because for every dollar that men earn, women make only $0.83, according to Payscale's latest 2023 Gender Pay Gap Report.
But what are the causes behind that pay gap? Researchers at the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau set out to determine what variables contribute most to the gender wage gap, but it turns out that about 70% of it is immeasurable—even in this day and age.
