Gender Gap Persists in MBA Pay, Increases Over Time, Study Shows

"Female MBA graduates earn less than their male colleagues, a gap that grows even greater over time, according to a recent paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research. The results of the paper were published last week in the Economist.  The authors tracked the earnings of 1,600 MBA graduates from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (now Chicago Booth) between 1990 and 2006. According to their findings,males edged out females only slightly in income in their first year out of school. But the pay discrepancy increased steadily over time, with males earning as much as 90 percent more than their female counterparts 10 years after graduation..."
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