The US gender pay-gap is bigger than first thought

Dec 3, 2018

Lester P. Botkin shows his daughter Sara Botkin messages he is receiving hours after they both resigned from Morgan Stanley to start their own financial planning office in McMurray, Pennsylvania, March 20, 2015. The Botkins' experience is reflective of a growing number of top-producing brokers who are leaving the embrace of big banks like Morgan Stanley, Bank of America's Merrill Lynch and UBS Group to branch out on their own. Photo taken March 20, 2015. To match Feature USA-BROKERAGE/DEPARTURES REUTERS/Stephanie Strasburg - GF10000046774

Personal finance advisers have the widest gender gap of all professions, with women making just 61.3% of what their male counterparts do Image: REUTERS/Stephanie Strasburg

Ellen Wulfhorst

Chief Correspondent of the Americas, Thompson Reuters Foundation

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