On WomensEqualityDay, here's how to fight the gender pay gap:
Casual portrait of a business woman showing determination and pride in a bright and sunny startup with windows in the background the passage of the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote. The progress we've made over the past century is clear; more women are running for office, we make up nearly half of the work force and are more likely than our male counterparts to attend college and earn professional degrees.
While the gap has narrowed, progress has virtually stalled for the past 13 years, hovering around 80-83%To find a solution to this problem, we first need to understand the root. The pay gap has been attributed to multiple factors, such as: women are more likely to leave the workforce to care for their families or having to do with education. A
. Women have also earned the majority of master’s degrees every year since 1987 and the majority of doctor’s degrees each year since 2006. Unfortunately, an increase in education has not closed the gender pay gap.Women and men are closest to equal in earnings at the"some college or associate's degree" level, where women make 70% of what men do. to women with no bachelor's degree, the women with more education face a bigger wage gap.
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