Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We know what happens when a woman earns money. She is far more likely than a man to spend her earnings on the health and education of her children and to invest in improving her family's standard of living.
Women now have to put so much attention into their careers, and not many families can pull off a single income.
If you look back on professions, when they became undervalued and paid less, women tended to do better in them.
Because there still exists a significant pay gap, women tend to earn less than men over the course of their lifetimes. Compounding the problem, women tend to spend less time in the workforce than men.
Research indicates that most women want their man to earn more than they do.
There are 80 jobs in which women earn more than men - positions like financial analyst, speech-language pathologist, radiation therapist, library worker, biological technician, motion picture projectionist.
Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men economically.
Women work as much as men now, if not more. There's a resurgence of dads in the home and moms working.
The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.
Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.