Gender Discrimination

Gender discrimination is considered a form of prejudice. It involves treating someone (an applicant or employee) unfavorably because of that person’s sex.  Sexual discrimination can happen in many different contexts. For instance an employer not hiring or promoting, unequally paying, or wrongfully terminating, an employee based on their gender. When gender discrimination does occur most of the time it is against women. There are still some job areas women get paid equally or a little more such as nurses or child care careers but those are thought of as to be typically women's work. 
My Stats: 
-Women working 41 to 44 hours per week earn 84.6% of what men working similar hours earn; women working more than 60 hours per week earn only 78.3% of what men in the same time category earn (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
- women may work longer to receive the promotions that provide access to higher pay. For example, among school principals, women have an average of 3 years longer as teachers than men do (National Center for Education Statistics)
-Pay inequality figures are even worse for women of color. African American women earn only 72 cents and Latinas 60 cents for every dollar that men earn (AFL-CIO, "It's Time for Working Women to Earn Equal Pay").
-Women typically face challenges breaking into male-dominated fields. However, they still dominate traditionally female professions, such as the following:
      

Occupation	Percent
Secretaries & Administrative Assistants	96.7
Child Care Workers	94.6
Hairdressers, Stylists, Cosmetologists	92.9
Registered Nurses	91.7
Teacher Assistants	91.5
Medical Assistants & Other Healthcare Support	90.6
Auditing Clerks	90.3
Maids & Housekeeping Services	89.2
Home Health Aides	88.3

 (More at Bureau of Labor Statistics)