Women May Earn Less, but They Find Their Work More Meaningful – NYTimes.com

As I mentioned in an earlier post, the pay gap between men and women persists even when you control for the type of job and various demographic factors like age and experience. But some of the “softer” aspects to work may partly explain the wage differential: perhaps women are making a trade-off between pay and other aspects of work that make them happy.

When asked whether their jobs make the world a better place, women were much more likely to say “very much so” than were men:

via Women May Earn Less, but They Find Their Work More Meaningful – NYTimes.com.