‘Williams,’ the Princess and the Gender Pay Gap

     On Wednesday, February 5th 2014, The New York Times published an article about women average earnings are less than men. A 2011 census report obtained that in 2010 “the earnings of women who worked full time, year-round were 77% of that for men working full time, year-round.” While the pay gap diverged by occupation, women’s median income was lower than men in almost all. Women still can not get out of the social stereotyped jobs such as health aid and childcare jobs.

The researches propose two theories that might explain the gap: gender discrimination and gender varieties in the willingness to negotiate salary, women are generally unenthusiastic to negotiate a starting salary and pay rate.  Even though when work hours, college major, employment sector, practice type and other factors related with pay were adjusted, the pay gap shrinks still occurred.

This article is worth to read because these kinds of inequalities are unfair and unreasonable. Discrimination against women in employment is topic that has long been an issue in society.