average hourly earnings
Average hourly earnings actually fell, by 0.1%.
As a result, it is now worth 41% of average hourly earnings.
In fact, most countries have experienced sharp reductions in the gender gap in hourly earnings during the past several decades.
Average hourly earnings were flat last month, and are up just 1.7% from a year earlier, half the rate at which they were growing before the recession.
The unemployment rate is at 4.7% and average hourly earnings rose by 3.8% in the year to April, up from 2.7% a year earlier.
The markets, however, are not expecting a rest. Non-farm payrolls grew less in the second quarter than in the first, but hourly earnings rose in June at their fastest year-on-year pace since 2001.
