Over the course of a 40-year career, women are expected to lose approximately $430,480 due to today’s maddening gender wage gap. Despite challenges from critics who claim that this wage gap doesn’t exist, it is well-documented that women earn, on average, 24 percent less than their male counterparts — and this number rises to nearly 30 percent in industries like finance and insurance. While a lot of research has been done on the gender wage gap in traditional industries, we actually don’t know very much about how women are faring in the creative economy where workers set their own prices and choose which projects to take on. Surely, self-employed women must suffer less from the gender wage gap, given that they can dictate their own fees… right?.....
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