Women's earnings as a percent of men's, median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, by age, 1979 and 2003 Percent 1979 2003 TOTAL 62.5 79.5 16 to 24 years 78.5 93.3 25 to 34 years 67.4 87.0 35 to 44 years 58.3 76.2 45 to 54 years 56.9 73.0 55 to 64 years 60.5 72.6 65 years and over 77.8 71.2