Women are getting better grades, going to University more and getting many more honours than men yet they are still only earning 80 cents to every mans dollar earnt. This shows us how that even though women are mostly more educated than men, they are still being treated as inferior in the workplace.
For the Harvard Class of 2006, 55% of the women graduated with honors while barely half of the men did so. In 2009, once again roughly 55% of women were awarded honors degrees compared with 51% of men. At Florida Atlantic University, not only did women make up 64% of the graduating class in 2006, they also received 75% of the honors degrees and 79% of the highest honors. According to census figures released in April 2011, among the population age 25 to 29, 36% of women had a bachelor degree or more, compared with 28% of men.
A woman earns only 80 cents for every dollar a man earns. Women are performing better in school than men are, and women definitely have equal qualifications, if not higher. But women are still at a disadvantage in the workplace.
The modern American workplace simply does not reflect the fact that women are equally qualified for the same jobs as men are, and thus due the same pay. So why doesn’t a woman’s success in school translate into success in the real world?
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