The paper will analyze the differences between women and men salaries. The salaries are definitely higher for men than women in all age groups. Women with higher education will receive higher pay but not equal to men with the same years of experience due to gender, and education. The data statements that were found was that males work longer than females which may cause a lower percentage in salary for females, and that females do not negotiate salary as much as men. Another issue caused is that women in the workforce are less likely to work a full-time schedule, and leave the labor force for longer periods of time than men, which repress women’s wages. These differing work patterns lead to an even larger earnings gap between men, and women suggesting that working women are penalized for their dual roles as wage earners, and those who disproportionately care for home and family. We learned that the wage gap is a statistical indicator often used as an index of the status of women's earnings relative to men's. According to (Wage Gap, 2010) “the wage gap is expressed as a percentage in 2006, women earned 76.6% as much as men, and it is calculated by dividing the median annual earnings for women by the median annual earnings for men.” The (Wage Gap, 2010) website states that Equal Pay Act was signed in 1963, making it illegal for employers to pay unequal wages to men and women who was employed for the same job and accomplished the same work. As stated by (Wage Gap, 2010) website that the event of the EPA's passage, women earned just 58 cents for every dollar earned by men. It stated that in (Wage Gap, 2010) website that in 2006 the rate had only expand to 77 cents, an enhancement of less than half a penny a year. Minority women fare the worst. African American women earn just 64 cents to every dollar earned by white men, and for Hispanic women whose figure drops to merely 52 cents per dollars stated (Wage
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