The reverse wage gap means women earned 16 percent more than men in social services and 10 percent more in industrial-engineering jobs held by graduates between the ages of 22 and 27, Federal Reserve Bank of New York research showed.
Women who recently graduated from college earn as much as or more than their male counterparts in 29 fields, ranging from engineering to art history, according to researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
The reverse wage gap means women earned 16 percent more than men in social services and 10 percent more in industrial-engineering jobs held by graduates between the ages of 22 and 27, according to the research, which looked at 73 different fields.