A Long Way To A Women's Nation

A Woman’s Nation, will take a new, pragmatic look at American women who for the first time in our nation’s history make up fully half of all workers and are becoming the primary breadwinners in more families than ever before.
Nonetheless, just one year out of college, women working full-time earn only 80 percent of their male colleagues’ salaries, even when they work in the same field. Ten years after graduation, the pay gap widens, with women earning 69 percent of what men earn.
More often than not, the gap in salary among men and women has always been attributed primarily to women’s career tracks; they’re more likely to work part-time and take time out of the workforce to raise children, but Studies contradicts those believes. Even after adjusting for hours worked, employment, parenthood and other factors known to affect earnings, studies found that one-quarter of the pay gap between men and women remains unsolved.
With the new statistics, showing that women make up 50% of all workers, and 2/3 of women becoming primary breadwinners in many household, isn’t time for equal pay for equal work? I think it’s over due; government and institutions should change to foster this new dynamics, until then, it’s very much still “ A Men’s Nation” ,fairly or not.
I f you want to know more, I encourage you to read Maria Shriver’s report: “A Woman’s Nation”