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Social Interaction Of Interest
Throughout the 20th century, there has been a definite difference between men and women and their median income. Studies show that women’s median earnings are substantially less than men’s earnings. However, this “earnings gap” has started to close recently, bringing the percentage of women’s earnings closer to that of the median earnings of men. According to the Census Bureau, the gap stayed relatively constant from 1960 to 1980. From 1980 to 2000 the median of women’s earnings as a percentage of the median of men’s earnings increased by nearly fourteen percent. This report will be investigating what exactly caused the earnings gap to narrow after twenty plus years of stagnation by examining certain factors such as employment, education, family make-up, and other factors that may have an affect on the earnings of men and women.
A Brief History Of This Phenomena
Since the Equal Pay Act was signed in 1963, the earnings gap has been narrowing at a very slow rate. In 1960, women who worked full-time, year-round earned $16,144 while men earned $26,608. Therefore, women only made 60 cents on average for every dollar earned by men. This average persisted for the next twenty years with virtually no change in percentage of men’s income earned by women. In fact, the gap actually widened to an all-time low (within the time frame of 1960 – 2000) in 1973 when women earned an average of just 56 cents for every dollar earned by...

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