Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained. A number of moderate members managed . . . to obtain a majority in a thin house.
Today, on average, a woman earns 79 cents for every dollar a man earns, and womenâs median annual earnings are $10,800 less than menâs, according to a report released by the Senate Joint Economic Committee Democratic Staff last April.
1 The earnings difference between women and men varies with age. 2  Younger women (89.8% of 20-24 year old women) are closer to pay equity than older women (73.7% for women 65+) for full-time wage and salary workers. Women were paid about 90% of what men earned until age 35, at which point median earnings for women start to slow down compared to men's earnings, further widening the pay gap. 2  The average full-time working woman will lose more than $460,000 over a 40 year period in wages due only to the wage gap.