Gender wage gap and wage discrimination

Introduction

More than thirty years ago , the then president of American Kennedy ascended the Equal Pay Act in 1963 and it became a law . This law made it unlawful to pay men and women working in the same firm in the same position different wages for substantially equal ' duty . During that moment the proportion of women to men wage was around 58 . Arulampalam (2006 ) explains that , though , the wage gap between men and women has reduced considerably since the enactment of Equal Pay Act of 1963 , at the moment there was still a

noteworthy wage gap between these two genders that it is hard to explain in the employment market as well as in the duties of the position they both hold . After being at around 60 from the 1950s , the wage gap between men and women increased in the 1970s to touch a high of 70 . However in the 1990s it started going down . But at the present moment , studies indicate that the wage gap between men and women is increasing again . Reduced job market discrimination may have contributed to reduction of wage gap between men and women however until now the earning gap still persists . This seeks to review this issue of wage gap between men and women

The issue

The long lasting differences that is seen between the average wage of men and that of women in the job market is a result of various factors and aspects . These includes the disparity in characteristics of men...