gender gap in pay

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Social Issues

 

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Patricia G

 

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April 24, 2014

 

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University

 

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According to the Census Bureau, the gap stayed relatively constant from 1960 to 1980. From 1980 to 2000 the median of women's earnings as a percentage of the median of men's earnings increased by nearly fourteen percent. This report will be investigating what exactly caused the earnings gap to narrow after twenty plus years of stagnation by examining certain factors such as employment, education, family make-up, and other factors that may have an affect on the earnings of men and women...
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In 1960, women who worked full-time, year-round earned $16,144 while men earned $26,608. Therefore, women only made 60 cents on average for every dollar earned by men. This average persisted for the next twenty years with virtually no change in percentage of men's income earned by women. In fact, the gap actually widened to an all-time low (within the time frame of 1960 ? 2000) in 1973 when women earned an average of just 56 cents for every dollar earned by men...
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