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(CNN)April 12 is a day most women would rather not celebrate.
It's Equal Pay Day, and it's the day that, if you're a woman, your earnings have finally caught up with what men were paid the previous year.
The good news is that the gender pay gap is getting smaller. In 1964, women on average were paid 59% of what men were paid. In 2014, that number had jumped to 79%.
Young women asking for and getting more pay than men
But that's the bad news, too: Women are typically paid 79% of what men are paid.
New goal: U.S. women's soccer eyes equal pay
If current trends continue, women won't earn equal pay until 2059, according to the Institute for Women's Policy Research.
And depending on where you live, your age, race and education level, you could be waiting much longer than that.
Here's a look at how those factors play into the gender pay gap:
The Department of Labor’s Time Use Survey, for example, finds that the average full-time working man spends 8.14 hours a day on the job, compared to 7.75 hours for the full-time working woman. Employees who work more likely earn more. Men working five percent longer than women alone explains about one-quarter of the wage gap.
originally posted by: Lysergic
(CNN)April 12 is a day most women would rather not celebrate.
It's Equal Pay Day, and it's the day that, if you're a woman, your earnings have finally caught up with what men were paid the previous year.
The good news is that the gender pay gap is getting smaller. In 1964, women on average were paid 59% of what men were paid. In 2014, that number had jumped to 79%.
Young women asking for and getting more pay than men
But that's the bad news, too: Women are typically paid 79% of what men are paid.
New goal: U.S. women's soccer eyes equal pay
If current trends continue, women won't earn equal pay until 2059, according to the Institute for Women's Policy Research.
And depending on where you live, your age, race and education level, you could be waiting much longer than that.
Here's a look at how those factors play into the gender pay gap:
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originally posted by: reldra
a reply to: frostie
I don;t know where you found that, but it has nothing to do with pay per hour. Women demand 'the whole damn dollar'.
A white woman generally makes 79 cents on the dollar that a man makes. If a woman is Latino or Black, the gap is wider.
This MUST change. This HAS to change. There is NO logical argument against it.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, full-time working women earned 81 percent of what full-time working men earned in 2010 (the most recent data available), leaving a “gap” of 19 percent between the sexes
originally posted by: Metallicus
a reply to: Lysergic
Companies spend lots of money developing talent and men don't get pregnant and quit their jobs out of the blue.
#wagegap
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: frostie
I wonder if they happen to be adding in all the single mothers? Seems to me that if you are a single mother, you might be making less than your male counterpart who doesn't have to bail to take care of kids. You can call that unfair all you want, but the simple fact is that the woman made the life choices that led to her being a single mother in most circumstances. There aren't all that many poor, beknighted widows running around out there.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: reldra
And when/if she goes back to the workforce, she will not expect to be paid as if she never quit her job either.
originally posted by: Edumakated
The bottom line is that there is on wage gap.
This is nothing more than propaganda using progressive math to make it look like women are victims.