Since John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, women have flooded into every field imaginable and risen through the ranks to positions of power. Although salaries haven't kept pace with women's career advances, women are closer to closing the gap in many industries.

The following salary survey details the median earnings of women and men, in various fields.

FIELD                                                  WOMEN                  MEN

ADVERTISING
Copywriter                    $50,500        $59,300
Account Executive             $40,500        $50,600
Art Director                  $49,200        $53,300

COMPUTERS
Technical Writer              $47,000        $56,000

EDUCATION
Professor (Baccalaureate)     $56,777        $59,643
Teacher                       $36,296        $40,196

GRAPHIC DESIGN
Designers                     $29,224        $37,440

HUMAN RESOURCES
Personnel Training            $31,252        $39,260

LIBRARIANS
Librarians                    $33,956        $39,312

NEWSPAPERS
Editors and Reporters         $32,032        $42,224

PUBLIC RELATIONS
Public Relations              $32,000        $40,000

SOCIAL WORK
Social Work                   $29,536        $31,668

TRAVEL & HOSPITALITY
Manager                       $31,800        $39,600
Front-line Agent              $25,500        $29,300

 -- Janet Kidd Stewart, "The 1999 Salary Survey"; Working Woman (July/August 1999)