![]() ![]() ![]() In the second half of the 20th century, women began to enter the workforce at a much higher rate-working longer hours and earning higher degrees than before.īut despite high rates of working women, the wage gap persists. ( UN Women / Ryan Brown) The History of The Wage Gap That means over a lifetime, women who graduate college and work a full time job will lose 1.2 million dollars, according to estimates from Evelyn Murphy, president of the WAGE Project. And for the past 13 years, growth has remained relatively stagnant, hovering around 80-83 percent. At that rate, the gap won’t fully close until 2059. If you do the math, that means that in each year, the wage gap closed by less than a cent. ![]() ![]() And in the first quarter of 2020, women earned 80.4 percent of what men earned. In 2018, that number was up to 0.79 cents. In fact, in 1963, full-time working women only made 0.59 cents to the working white man’s dollar. The Equal Pay Act was signed in 1963, and since then, the gap has been closing very slowly. Census Bureau, “2018 American Community Survey.” (Shayanne Gal / Business Insider) Unequal Pay for Equal Work This week, we’ll be discussing everyone’s favorite conversation topic: money. Whether or not these tools are used intentionally, they contribute to a world in which women are not equal to men. Tools of the Patriarchy is a column on the tools that establish men’s dominance in society, or, in other words, uphold the patriarchy. ![]()
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