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Social attitude shift on woman at work by concerns of equality persist

social attitudes towards women at work or shifting in positive direction. But pulls in surveys show that a ginger wage Gap and biased towards woman remains. For example

More women than men now receive college degrees comprise almost half the workforce

Young women earn.93 cents per dollar earned by young men, while woman in general earned 76.5 cents per dollar earned by men, a figure that is actually up slightly from 71.6 cents in1991

Among full-time workers women earn $0.79 per dollar earned by men

the percent of women who believe they can't have a career and family without sacrifices to each fell from 78% in 1997 to 66% in 2013 while 64% of women now say women can't have it all.

35% of women report experiencing some kind of discrimination at work versus 15% of women aged 18 to 32

84% of women versus 63% of men believe women are paid less than men for the same work

75% of women between 18 through 32 believe more must be done to ensure workplace in quality

Questions

What reasons other than discrimination can you give for the lingering wage gap between women and men Do these explanations make the Gap more justifiable, or not? What are the implications of wage gap for the economy, for families, for businesses, and communities? How about the brief that woman can't have it all career and family, without making sacrifices? Is this your belief? What are the implications for society at large as well as for women in their families? If more needs to be done to create workplace equality, what steps should next be taken by government, by employers, in by educators? Have you seen examples of age racial or gender bias in balance in compensation? What do you think drives any such gaps?