LEMON: Welcome back, everyone. In today's "Your Money," is a gender pay gap widening or is it getting smaller? Christine Romans takes a look at the latest numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and what industries have the biggest discrepancies. Christine.</s>CHRISTINE ROMANS, HOST, "YOUR BOTTOM LINE": Don, new data from the government shows the gender pay gap is still there. Women, on average, making about 80 percent of the man's dollar. In the year 2009, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 45 million women in this country working full time at a wage and salary jobs. They made about $657 a week on average. That compared to $819 a week for men. How do different careers stack up, though? You can see there are some big disparities. For example, in construction, women make 92.2 percent of what a man makes. That's the best industry there is in terms of women's pay equality. Leisure and hospitality, they make about 83.5 percent. Education and health services, it's 77 percent. And, Don, this is the area where most women are employed. Seventeen million of those 45 million women employed full time in this country are employed in education and health services. They make 77 cents on a man's dollar. And in financial activities, Wall Street, the banks, mortgage industry, about 70.5 percent. So where you are in the labor market depends greatly on how wide the gender gap really is. Don.</s>LEMON: All right, Christine, thank you very much. And be sure to join Christine Romans for "Your Bottom Line" each Saturday morning, 9:30 a.m. Eastern, and "Your Money" with Ali Velshi, Saturdays 1:00 p.m. Eastern and Sundays at 3:00 p.m. right here on CNN. President Barack Obama is weighing in on the Wisconsin teacher budget battle, but he's not the only one in Washington speaking up. Senior White House correspondent Ed Henry has that next in "The Stakeout."
Examining The Gender Pay Gap