The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently released the median weekly earnings for the second quarter of 2025.

Amid this Administration’s roll-back of DEI policies, meant to support women and other minority classes, it is clear that the trend of women falling behind their male counterparts in equal pay is likely to continue.

Furthermore, it is not surprising that women’s pay equity is far from the focus of the Trump and Vance – one can hardly forget the 2021 comments in which Vance said professional women “choose a path to misery” when emphasizing their careers, and those women go on to “project that misery…on the rest of society.”

Median weekly earnings of the nation’s 121.5 million full-time wage and salary workers were $1,196 in the second quarter of 2025.

However, when broken down by sex, women had median weekly earnings of $1,078, or 81.1 percent of the $1,330 median for men.

The outlook is even worse when you break down the data by age.

Usual weekly earnings were highest for men ages 35 to 54: median weekly earnings were $1,502 for men ages 35 to 44 and $1,520 for men ages 45 to 54.

Among women, usual weekly earnings were also highest for workers ages 35 to 54: median weekly earnings were $1,190 for women ages 35 to 44 and $1,189 for women ages 45 to 54.

The older women are, the larger the pay equity gap grows.

Men’s and women’s earnings were closer among younger workers. The Bureau found that women ages 16 to 24 earned 89.3 percent as much as men in the same age group.

However, the gap for the women-to-men’s earnings ratio was 78.2 percent for those age 55 and over.

Ultimately, given the current Administration’s focus on DEI policies, meant to help bridge such gaps as pay equity, one can expect that the earning ratio gap to further increase throughout the Trump Administration.