![]() ![]() ![]() So, it was from these diverse perspectives and experiences that I decided to research and write the book-not just to describe what creates the wage gap today-but also, what can be done to eliminate it. And, with years of experience in corporations and on corporate boards of directors, I know what employers need to do. As a former public official, I know what public policy and government can and cannot do. ![]() Moreover, from 1993 to today, the wage gap has remained essentially unchanged.Īs an economist I wanted to examine the data underpinning the wage gap in depth. In short, all the reasons the wage gap supposedly existed were outdated-yet a 23-cent wage gap persisted. But, by the late 1990s, women were graduating from college at the same (even greater) rates than men women's paychecks were crucial to families many women, either divorced, separated, never married, or widowed, were the major providers for themselves and those who depended on them, and women were working almost as long and certainly as hard as men. When I started working full time, the gender wage gap was 40 cents! Throughout subsequent decades, I heard that women earned less than men because we were not as well educated, did not work as long or as hard as men, and that we really did not need as much money because husbands would support us. I was inspired to write Getting Even because I always assumed the gender wage gap would disappear during my working life. ![]()
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