>Earnings are by far the biggest component of income. Median
>earnings for men who worked full time, all year, declined by 2.3
>percent in real terms in 2004. The earnings of year-round,
>full-time women decreased 1.0 percent in 2004 from the year before,
>the second consecutive annual decline for women.
>Prior to 2003, women had not experienced an annual decline in real
>median earnings since 1995. As shown in this slide
><http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/img/incpov04/fig12.jpg>, the ratio
>of female-to-male earnings for full-time year-round workers was 77
>percent in 2004, which is up from 76 percent in 2003.
