在这个行业，女性比男性的收入更高

九月中旬发布的最新政府数据给出了一些好消息： 美国性别薪酬差距创下了10年来最大的缩小幅度。2016年，女性平均收入为男性收入的80.5%，2015年这一比例为约80%，上世纪70年代为不足60%。

但进步并非全方位的。薪酬差距现象比统计数据所传达出的情况更加复杂。差距缩小的部分原因是男性薪酬增长陷入了停滞。而且女性的收入情况也并不如你想象的那么美好，因为拉美裔和非洲裔美国女性的薪酬增长速度低于白人女性。

不同职业之间也有差异。在传统的男性主导（并且往往薪酬更高的）行业，女性薪酬依旧较低。女性私人理财顾问的收入，仅有男性同行的58%。但在女性主导的行业，女性收入更有可能获得与男性相同甚至更高的薪酬。例如，据美国劳工统计局的数据显示，女性缝纫机操作员的收入是男性同行的111%。

关于哪些行业接近同工同酬，请参阅以下图表了解更多数据。如图所示，有些职业的收入公平性超过其他职业。

女性工资与男性工资的百分比

New government data released in mid-September offered some good news: the largest recorded narrowing of the gender wage gap in the U.S. in a decade. Women in 2016 made 80.5% of what men did on average—up from about 80% in 2015, and from less than 60% in the 1970s.

But the progress isn’t universal. The wage gap is a far more complicated phenomenon than can be communicated in a single statistic. The gap has narrowed partly because men’s wages hit a wall. And the story for women doesn’t look nearly as rosy when you consider when you consider that Hispanic and African American women’s wages have not risen as quickly as white women’s.

Then there are the disparities between professions. Traditionally male (and traditionally higher-paid) industries still tend to pay women less. Personal finance advisors who are women tend to make only 58% of what men in the industry make. While women in female-dominated fields are more likely to make as much as men, or more. For example, women who operate sewing machine operators make 111% of what men in that profession make, according to BLS data.

See chart for more numbers on which jobs have salaries that approach parity. Some jobs, as they say, are more equal than others.

Women's wages as a percentage of men's