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2 https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/04/14/five-facts-about-gender-pay-gap(np)

" Motherhood is associated with a wage penalty and lower future career earnings."

17 http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/04/14/on-equal-pay-day-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-gender-pay-gap/(np)

"According to the White House, full-time working women earn 77% of what their male counterparts earn"

23 https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/labor/news/2013/04/09/59658/what-causes-the-gender-wage-gap/

"Among men and women employed full time, 60 percent of the wage gap can be attributed to known factors such as work experience at 10 percent, union status at 4 percent, and the aforementioned choice of occupation at 27 percent, among other measureable differences."

13 http://fortune.com/2016/04/12/equal-pay-day-facts/ (np)

"If current trends continue, women will not see equal pay for another 117 years."

12 http://fortune.com/2016/04/12/equal-pay-day-facts/ (np)

"If women were paid as much as men, poverty among working single mothers would fall by a third or more."

9 https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/labor/news/2012/04/16/11391/the-top-10-facts-about-the-wage-gap/ (np)

"In 2010 women who worked full time, year round, still only earned 77 percent of what men earned."

4 http://now.org/resource/the-gender-pay-gap-myth-vs-fact/ (np)

"In a 2007 study, it was found that male employers are less likely to hire a woman who negotiates about salary, as the men perceive these women as "demanding." Many women are aware they will be punished for acting in such a way and some will avoid this, by no fault of the woman but by fault of the culture."

10 https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/labor/news/2012/04/16/11391/the-top-10-facts-about-the-wage-gap/ (np)

"Over a 40-year working career, the average woman loses $431,000 as the result of the wage gap."

18 http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0763170.html (np)

"The wage gap is expressed as a percentage (e.g., in 2012, women earned 80.9% as much as men aged 16 and over) and is calculated by dividing the median annual earnings for women by the median annual earnings for men."

1 https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/04/14/five-facts-about-gender-pay-gap(np)

"Women are less likely to have an offer of health insurance from their employer, have retirement savings plans, or have access to paid leave, and perhaps as a result, they are more likely to take leave without pay."

5 http://now.org/resource/the-gender-pay-gap-myth-vs-fact/ (np)

"Women do tend to choose lower-paying careers and the fact that those careers are paid lower is part of the problem. However, a wage gap exists regardless."

22 http://theweek.com/speedreads/619946/gender-pay-gap-among-college-graduates-actually-growing (np)

"Young male college graduates earned 8.1 percent more in 2016 than in 2000, while young female college graduates earned 6.8 percent less than in 2000,"

11 http://www.aauw.org/files/2015/02/Fig-3_fall-2015-update.jpg (np)

(graph)

15 http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/uploader/image/2016/04/11/aauw_2014_gender_gap_hd.png(np)

(graph)

21 http://www.iwpr.org/initiatives/pay-equity-and-discrimination (np)

Full time working women in 2015 only made 75 cents for every dollar earned by men which is a 21 percent gap.

7 http://now.org/resource/the-gender-pay-gap-myth-vs-fact/ (np)

In 2012, computer programmers who were females earned only 84% of what male programmers earned

8 http://now.org/resource/the-gender-pay-gap-myth-vs-fact/ (np)

Lawyers who were females in 2012 only earned 80% of what men made.

19 http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0193820.html(Np)

The following table shows how much women working full-time, year-round in the United States make compared to men. For example, in 1951, women made about 64 cents for every dollar earned by men. The wage gap has narrowed over time, with today's women (age 15 and over) earning 78 cents for every dollar earned by men in 2013 (for year-round, full-time work). Year Percent Year Percent Year Percent Year Percent 1951 63.9% 1970 59.4% 1989 68.7% 2008 77.1% 1952 63.9 1971 59.5 1990 71.6 2009 77.0 1953 63.9 1972 57.9 1991 69.9 2010 77.4 1954 63.9 1973 56.6 1992 70.8 2011 77.0 1955 63.9 1974 58.8 1993 71.5 2012 76.5 1956 63.3 1975 58.8 1994 72.0 2013 78.3 1957 63.8 1976 60.2 1995 71.4 2014 n.a. 1958 63.0 1977 58.9 1996 73.8 2015 n.a. 1959 61.3 1978 59.4 1997 74.2 2016 n.a. 1960 60.7 1979 59.7 1998 73.2 2017 n.a. 1961 59.2 1980 60.2 1999 72.2 2018 n.a. 1962 59.3 1981 59.2 2000 73.3 2019 n.a. 1963 58.9 1982 61.7 2001 76.3 2020 n.a. 1964 59.1 1983 63.6 2002 76.6 2021 n.a. 1965 59.9 1984 63.7 2003 75.5 2022 n.a. 1966 57.6 1985 64.6 2004 76.6 2023 n.a. 1967 57.8 1986 64.3 2005 77.0 2024 n.a. 1968 58.2 1987 65.2 2006 76.9 2025 n.a. 1969 58.9 1988 66.0 2007 77.8 2026 n.a.

16 http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/04/14/on-equal-pay-day-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-gender-pay-gap/(np)

The pay gap has closed from 64 cents to a mans dollar in 1980.

3 https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/04/14/five-facts-about-gender-pay-gap(np)

The pay wage gap grows over the years and time a person is employed.

14 http://fortune.com/2016/04/12/equal-pay-day-facts/ (np)

The wage gap in the America has actually gotten bigger in 2015.

6 http://now.org/resource/the-gender-pay-gap-myth-vs-fact/(np)

Women who are in "men's" jobs tend to still get payed less due to a study in 2007

20 http://www.infoplease.com/us/statistics/wage-gap-within-race.html (np)

Women's earnings as a percentage of men's earnings within race/ethnicity Hispanic women 54% 90% American Indian and Alaska Native women 59 85 African American women 64 91 Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander women 65 84 White (non-Hispanic) women 78 78 Asian American women 90 79