An editorial published today in the Times points out that women are typically paid much less than men, no matter their occupation, career attainment or level of education.
The occasion for the editorial is Equal Pay Day — April 14 — the day when working women pause to consider how many more days, weeks, and months they have to work in any given year to make as much as men made in the prior year. Typically, a woman working full time earns about 78 cents for every dollar earned by her male counterparts, not much better than the 74 cents per dollar she earned in 2000 or the 72 cents she earned in 1990.
And now, for more bad news: The main reason that the gender pay gap has narrowed at all over the past decades is that wages for most men have stagnated or declined.
Paying women less than men is a problem in and of itself, and smacks of discrimination in a way that the erosion in men's wages does not. But it is also a symptom of a larger problem, in which businesses have pursued profits by squeezing pay across the board.
Women have borne the brunt of the process. Men in female-dominated professions — like nursing, teaching, customer service and retail sales — typically make more than women in those jobs. But women in male-dominated professions — from chief executives, general managers and software developers to cooks, carpenters and security guards — do not typically make more than men in those jobs.
To achieve parity, the pay of women would have to grow at a faster rate than the pay of men. The overarching fact of the matter, however, is that laws and norms to support decent starting wages, steady raises and profit sharing have been badly diminished over recent decades — along with equal-pay protections — to the detriment of both women and men.
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