The wage gap between women and men in the United States is not closing, and the added dimension of race with the prisms of difference can further impact these gaps. Why?

Conduct research using academically approved sources in order to describe and explain these groups’ experiences of social class. Data to analyze include educational achievement, income, health statistics, family dynamics, and economic security. Understand also that the wage gap can often be attributed to higher paid positions (like CEOs) being occupied by more men than women, or more whites than people of color.

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Nationally, the median annual pay for a woman who holds a full-time, year-round job is

$39,621 while the median annual pay for a man who holds a full-time, year-round job is $50,383

(U.S. Census Bureau, 2015a). This can be further interpreted to mean that on average, for every one dollar a man is paid in the United States his female counterpart receives seventy nine cents. The wage gap becomes even wider for women of color with black women being paid roughly 60 cents and Latinas 55 cents for the same one dollar a white man is paid.

Approximately forty per cent of women in the U.S. are the sole bread winners yet, for the same job and company, they earn less than men. One of the reasons is because women are still …

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