The data appear (I am no expert) a bit different than those collected by 
the AAUW:
http://www.aauw.org/files/2014/03/The-Simple-Truth.pdf . A number of 
places have developed maps from those data, including: 
http://www.aauw.org/resource/gender-pay-gap-by-state-and-congressional-district/ 
. Did this assignment require use of American FactFinder? Just curious.

         Joel Kovarsky


On 4/30/15 10:54 AM, Linda R Zellmer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Recently, I saw a colleague helping a student access income data in American FactFinder. One of the items he pointed out was the pay gap between men and women. Of course, the first thing that I thought of was to make a map showing this information.
>
> So, I downloaded income by sex data for US Counties from the Census Bureau, pulled the data into ArcGIS, used ArcGIS to calculate the gender pay gap in the US and then mapped the data. You can view a copy of the map at:
>
> http://faculty.wiu.edu/LR-Zellmer/GenderPay.pdf
>
> If you are wondering, the pink areas are places where women make more than men. There are 20 of those places in the Continental US and 6 in Alaska.
>
> Linda Zellmer
>