Any progress toward closing pay disparities between male and female employees comes without much evidence of change on the statistical front.

The most recent annual government data shows that women who work full-time, year-round still earn 80 cents for every dollar men earn, a level that has hardly budged over the past decade after rising from about 60 cents in 1980.

“The wage gap seems to be stuck,” said Vicki Shabo, vice president for workplace policies and strategies at the National Partnership for Women and Families, which cites annual figures, rather than weekly figures showing an 82-cents-to-the-dollar disparity, to avoid fluctuations that come with seasonal work.

Personal financial advisers show the largest disparity, with women's median weekly earnings at 59 percent that of men's.