Men and Women Wage Gap

(womensorg).
             Others disagree with the statistics that groups like The National Academy of Sciences provides. They propose the ideas such as women being more likely to enter and leave the workforce to raise children, take care of elderly parents or move with their families. Working mothers are nearly twice as likely to take time off to care for their children as are working fathers in dual-earner couples. Yet time out of the workforce is an enormous obstacle to building an attractive resume and working up the corporate ladder. Women 25 years of age and over have been with their current employer 4.4 years, on average, compared to 5.0 years for men. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey reveal that women between the ages of 18 and 34 have been out of the labor force 27 percent of the time, in contrast to 11 percent for men. Women ages 45 to 54 that have recently re-entered the workforce after a five- or 10-year break are competing against men who have had 20 years of continuous experience. (ncpa).
             Claudia Goldin, an economist at Harvard University, on the other hand, claims that the gap between men and women's wages is going to stop narrowing all together. She states that, "The narrowing wage gap got a huge amount of attention five years ago. But right now,we're a little quiet. Questions of gender and economics are going to be with us forever, and it's all connected to political and social change. The.
             social movements that led to women's advances came in with great force. It.
             was an enormous tide. Now we're coming into a new equilibrium. I see this.
             as a household issue, and the new equilibrium is that all those strollers.
             are still being pushed by women." (csf).
             Demonstrating that there is still not equal pay for equal work, in 1997, female public relations and marketing managers earned 31% less than male managers, female elementary school teachers earned 9% less than male elementary school teachers, female retail sales workers made 32% less than male counterparts, and female economists made 27% less than male economists.