Summary Of Lets Expose The Gender Pay Gap

This article title “Lets Expose the Gender Pay Gap” by Joanne Lipman focuses on gender income inequality. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, the gap between what men and women earn has defied every effort to close it. Unfortunately, we live in a society where women experience discrimination based on her sex. The author gives out an example of how female doctors and surgeons, earn 71 percent of what their male colleagues make, while female financial specialists are paid just 66 percent as much as comparable men. Other researchers have calculated that women one year out of college earn 6.6 percent less than men after controlling for occupation and hours, and those female M.B.A. graduates earn on average $4,600 less than their male classmates for their first jobs.
African-American men earn less than white men, for example, though a Harvard Business Review analysis found that controlling for education, black men out-earn both white and black women. In my opinion I think that this is very sad because we live in a society where we are paid based on our race, sex and sometimes sexual preferences. This is the 21st century and anyone saying women should make less than men must be in the wrong time. In America our marriage rate are decreasing and our single mother rate are increasing. Women need an equal pay rate because a lot of women are becoming single mothers. We live in a century where prices are increasing. If a women has a good paying rate she will be able to help out her husband with the house utilities and contribute to their family