According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, women are almost half of the workforce. They
are the sole or co-breadwinner in half of American families with children. They receive more college and
graduate degrees than men. Yet, on average, women continue to earn considerably less than men. In
2015, female fulltime, year-round workers made only 80 cents for every dollar earned by men, a gender
wage gap of 20 percent.
What weaknesses still remain in the legal structure for enforcing equal pay for equal work laws?
Identify some of the inherent challenges to identifying and eliminating discrimination based on sex for
workers in the same job category/occupation.
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