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Originally Posted by corporatejay
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Viewing women simply as victims in a society where they have zero control only helps perpetuate the myth that only men can save them. There needs to be a balance.
Exiled: I think the "problem" with the examples you are using is that those are extremely educated women in professions who are likely of a socio-economic status that allows them to overcome some of the obstacles they face in every day life. I suspect the wage gap for unskilled or low-skilled labour is greater than 23 cents.
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Actually a better example than doctors, etc., are female professors at universities, who on average earn about 80% of what male professors do when taking into consideration equal tenure, status, etc.
There's also this:
http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat39.pdf
Pretty much across the board, women in comparable jobs are earning less than their male counterparts.
There's a bigger summary of things here:
http://www.aauw.org/research/the-sim...ender-pay-gap/
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The pay gap has barely budged in a decade.
In 2013, among full-time, year-round workers, women were paid 78 percent of what men were paid.
Women in every state experience the pay gap, but some states are worse than others.
The best place in the United States for pay equity is Washington, D.C., where women were paid 91 percent of what men were paid in 2013. At the other end of the spectrum is Louisiana, the worst state in the country for pay equity, where women were paid just 66 percent of what men were paid.
The pay gap is worse for women of color.
The gender pay gap affects all women, but for women of color the pay shortfall is worse. Asian American women’s salaries show the smallest gender pay gap, at 90 percent of white men’s earnings. Hispanic women’s salaries show the largest gap, at 54 percent of white men’s earnings. White men are used as a benchmark because they make up the largest demographic group in the labor force.
Women face a pay gap in nearly every occupation.
From elementary and middle school teachers to computer programmers, women are paid less than men in female-dominated, gender-balanced, and male-dominated occupations.
The pay gap grows with age.
Women typically earn about 90 percent of what men are paid until they hit 35. After that median earnings for women are typically 75–80 percent of what men are paid.
While more education is an effective tool for increasing earnings, it is not an effective tool against the gender pay gap.
At every level of academic achievement, women’s median earnings are less than men’s earnings, and in some cases, the gender pay gap is larger at higher levels of education. While education helps everyone, black and Hispanic women earn less than their white and Asian peers do, even when they have the same educational credentials.
The pay gap also exists among women without children.
AAUW’s Graduating to a Pay Gap found that among full-time workers one year after college graduation — nearly all of whom were childless — women were paid just 82 percent of what their male counterparts were paid.
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