Pay rise stalls for educated women; A woman with a four-year college degree loses ground with men.(Main)

Byline: DAVID LEONHARDT - New York Times

Throughout the 1980s and early '90s, women of all economic levels - poor, middle class and rich - steadily gained ground on their male counterparts in the work force. By the mid-'90s, women earned more than 75 cents for every dollar in hourly pay that men did, up from 65 cents 15 years earlier.

Largely without notice, one big group of women has stopped making progress: those with a four-year college degree. The gap between their pay and that of male college graduates has actually widened slightly since the mid-'90s.

For women without a college education, the pay gap with men has narrowed slightly over the …