15 Jobs With The Largest Gender Pay Gaps

15 Jobs With The Largest Gender Pay Gaps15 Jobs With The Largest Gender Pay Gaps Though progress has been made to shrink the gender pay gap , significant issues still exist. While the overall unadjusted pay gap between men and women in the U.S. is 21.4 percent, meaning women earn, on average, $0.79 for every $1.00 men earn , some professions have far mora disparate gaps.The pay gap can be divided into what can be explained due to differences in worker characteristics (e.g., age, education, etc.) and what remains unexplained, and may be attributed to factors such as workplace bias (whether intentional or not), negotiation gaps between men and women and/or other unobserved worker characteristics.One of the most significant factors contributing to the pay gap is the industry and jobs that men and women sort themselves into, also known as occupational sorting. As such,the adjusted gender pay gap is the largest for pilots (26.6 percent), chefs (24.6 percent) and C-suit e professionals (e.g., chief executive officer, chief financial officer 24.0 percent). Glassdoors Economic Research team took a look at the top 15 occupations in the U.S. with the largest adjusted gender pay gap. Your job may be one of these, in which case, you should be proactive about speaking to your employer and presenting research as to why you should be paid fairly. We still have a long way to go to make equal pay a reality for all Americans, but the first step is identifying where we still have problems and addressing them head on.Here are the jobs with the largest gender pay gaps.Source Glassdoor Economic Research (Glassdoor.com/research)