Gender Pay Gap: Should Women Get Paid?

There is still a gender pay gap in today’s society can you still believe that? In 2013, the median woman working full-time all year earned 78% of what the median man working full-time all year earned. Women account for 47% of the labor force and they hold 49.3% of jobs. The pay gap was narrowing down but in 2001 it stopped narrowing and remained 76 and 78 cents. That 's how much women earn every dollar a man does. The pay gap goes beyond wages and is even wider when compared at workers’ full compensation packages. This includes things like health care, retirement benefits, flexible schedules, and paid family and sick leave. Men have a 52% of having access to paid leave, while women have 44% to access paid leave. Now access to employer-provided
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This happened because motherhood is associated with wage penalty and lower wage gains later in a woman’s career. The delay in childbirth has helped narrow the pay gap a lot. Research shows that delaying childbirth by one year can increase a woman’s total career earnings and experience by 9 percent. While men continue to experience pay increases when they have children. Economists have long speculated that women with children work fewer hours and are more likely to take parental leave, also more recent research shows patterns of discrimination against women with children. Economists Marianne Bertrand, Claudia Goldin, and Lawrence Katz examined salaries of MBA graduates from top business schools and found that even if men and women had similar earnings at graduation, after a decade men earned 60% more than women. That was an example of young people starting careers with similar levels of earnings, but over time a gender gap appears and grows. Another example is people with the same level of earnings and working the same hours. After 15 years male lawyers earned 55% more than female lawyers. That 's outrageous the gender pay gap has to stop; women work the same hours and are paid less than men? Women work hard just as men to earn that money so why not give it to them. Women are less likely to negotiate their first job offer than men. Even when women do negotiate they are likely to receive less than men. While gaps in negotiated salaries are small in “low ambiguity situations”. While in “high ambiguity situations” women received about 10,000 dollars less than similarly qualified men. Women were most often penalized for asking to negotiate their wages because they were viewed as technically competent or socially incompetent. Discrimination is why there is still a gender pay gap in today 's