Have Twenty-Something Single Women Closed the Pay Gap?
Women earn less than men, right? Not, it turns out, among a very specific set of women and men: "In 2008," reports Conor Dougherty of The Wall Street Journal, "single, childless women between ages 22 and 30 were earning more than their male counterparts in most U.S. cities." Reach Advisors, a consumer-research firm, crunched the numbers from the Census Bureau to arrive at this statistic.

