March 30, 2004
Starting salaries for women beat men for first time
A white paper on working women published by Japan's Ministry of Labour reveals that in 2003, the average starting salary for female medical/science/technology graduates beat that for males for the first time, albeit by only Y200, at Y203,600 per month (US$1,921 at a rate of Y105.98).
The result apparently reflects a high proportion of female medical faculty graduates entering large retail and wholesale companies, which have comparatively high starting salaries.
(It's been an irredeemably slow day for tech news, in case you're wondering.)
[Via the Nikkei Shimbun (Japanese)]
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