Prior to 1920 women didn’t have the right to vote. After 1920, politicians had to consider gender inequality and bring it to everyone’s attention because women make up 47.6% of …show more content…
Woman get paid anywhere from 3% to 52% less than men in America today. The reason is woman generally work lower paying jobs than men, woman ask for less money for salary generally than men, and some places still discriminate against woman. Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn found that 51% of the difference in the equity of women and men is related to the fact that there are more females doing underpaid jobs, like nursing or education. Women have passed men in the numbers with a Bachelor’s degrees and other higher education. Most of a job market for a woman is just lower paid jobs because most woman can’t do the physically demanding jobs that pay higher. That’s what seems to hold back women’s pay. Hired, a website that connects employers to job-seekers, did a study of data from a $100,000 salary offers for sales and marketing jobs. In that study they found that throughout America, women ask for $14,000 less than men ask for overall. Employers offered women about 3 percent less than what they offer to men to fill the same position, with the same job title, the study showed. A Cornell study showed that there were no numbers that could explain a big part of the differences because of discrimination. A study viewed 12,000 MBA’s and realized that after 8 years of being out of school woman make on average 20% less than