A report published Wednesday by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) revealed that women experience an earnings gap just one year out of college, with men making an average of $42,918 one year after graduation while women make an average of $35,296.

“These figures represent a female/male earnings ratio of 82 percent, which is slightly higher than it was in 2001 when, among the same group, women earned just 80 percent of what their male peers earned,” the report said.

The report also anticipates a number of arguments critics of the pay gap often offer as explanation. “But women still earned an unexplained $13,399 less than their male colleagues did each year, even after the authors considered and controlled for factors that had a significant effect on salary, including specialty, age, parental status, additional graduate degrees, academic rank, institution type, grant funding, publications, work hours, and time spent in research.”

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