Gender Wage Gap in Greater Boston Narrows, According to BU Sociologist Neha Gondal
BU associate professor of sociology Neha Gondal presents the 2025 Wage Gap Data results at the Boston Women’s Workforce Council’s (BWWC) 2025 Effective Practices Conference at CDS Dec 10. Photo by Cydney Scott for Boston University Photography
The gender wage gap among companies in Greater Boston shrank by nearly half in the past two years—from 21 cents in 2023 to 12 cents in 2025—according to data collected and analyzed by the Boston Women’s Workforce Council (BWWC) and Boston University researchers. The 2025 data means that for every dollar a man earns, a woman, on average, earns 88 cents.
This year’s gap—the average difference in compensation between working men and working women—is the lowest it’s been since the BWWC began collecting data more than a decade ago.
“That’s something to be proud of,” Neha Gondal, BU associate professor of sociology and a member of the University’s Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences, said during the BWWC’s biennial conference, held at BU in December…
To read more, visit BU Today where this article originally first appeared on January 16, 2026.