Last week, the Census Bureau released part of its extensive
annual report on income and poverty. The report showed that women made 77 cents
to each dollar a man earned in 2011, a statistic that hasn’t changed much in
the last four years. However, some believe that it’s not that the gap isn’t
being closed between men and women but that wages have reached a plateau.
Male-dominated work was hit hard during the recession of 2007-09 and this lead
to women earning more than their husbands in 2009. But as the economy got
better, this changed. Still, unemployment rate for men was higher than the
unemployment rate for women in August.
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I think it's so interesting that in our world today, where women and men are supposed to be treated "equally," men still earn more than women.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it 2012? You would think by now (nearly a year after women received the right to vote) that women would be making the same amount of money as men. And the fact that they say that this has plateaued is even worse.
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