Health & Fitness
Is A Woman Only Worth 80% Of A Man? Then Why Are Women Still Fighting For Equal Pay?
How to improve pay for women?
By Matt Murray
Fifty years ago, President Kennedy signed into law the Equal Pay Act that was intended to end the wage gap that exist between men and women. In 1963, the wage gap was 59 cents on the dollar for women in the workplace. That is just over half what a man made for the same job (assuming they would have even hired her for the same job). With fifty years of growth and progress, surely we have ended this silly gap and no longer need laws like this, right? Sadly, no.
Today, a woman makes on average 80 cents on the dollar to a man. That’s is truly sad, that we are still fighting the same fight over and over again. Why? That I cannot answer. What I can say is that there have been people who have always worked to reduce the wage gap: labor unions.
