Widening income gap

Here's lovely little stat from the March/April issue of Columbia Journalism Review from a 2002 Indiana University national survey of journalists:

"...researchers found the median salary of female journalists to be $37,731—nearly 20 percent lower than the $46,758 pulled down by male journalists, a wage gap that widens as journalists grow older and more experienced."

A wage gap that widens as journalists grow older and more experienced??? Are you kidding?? No wonder women leave this profession in droves.

The article isn't available online, but the gist is that female journalists can get along in this business if they either become "one of the boys" (and still get paid less despite having "more education, better contacts and broader personal networks") or choose to become "one of the girls" writing about those subjects that benefit from the "women's angle."

Blech!