Statistics show that women get paid 79¢ to every male $1.00. these statistics however do not account for the amount of work women do and are expected to do when they get home from their job. Things like cooking dinner, doing the laundry, and taking care of the kids and house all add up in her unearned income. This 'second shift' that women have to work puts them in a lower income bracket then they already are when compared to men. It is large corporations and the powerful people that do the hiring that are giving these women unequal pay, therefore it is institutional discrimination. Although they may not be doing it intentionally, the way we see women in society as less then men definitley influences this gender pay gap.
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