Pay disparity between women and men widens around age 32, the same age at which women start to become underrepresented in managerial roles, The Wall Street Journal reported.
According to findings from workforce analytics firm Visier, at age 32, women earn roughly 90 percent of their male peers' incomes. By age 40, women make 82 percent of their male counterparts' salaries. In the intervening years, men are also more likely than women to be promoted into managerial roles, according to the report.
The company found that managers earn nearly double what non-managers make, so as men ascend managerial ranks at a faster rate than women, the gender wage gap increases further. If an equal proportion of male and female employers were managers, about one-third of the wage gap for workers over age 32 would go away, Visier found, according to the report.
To reach these findings, Visier analyzed pay and promotion data from its database of 165,000 U.S.-based employees from 31 companies.
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