Very often
we hear about the fact that women are paid less for doing the same job as men,
which means women are paid less just for being women. But why does this happen?
It wasn’t very long ago that most women didn’t work outside the home at all. In 1950s there weren’t very many women in the workforce and the women there were were often not as well educated as the men. 70% of them had menial job on factory assembly lines or in office and the only professional job was teaching. Discrimination against women was also totally legal, allowing employers to put out job listing for men only.
