Explain how and why the gender gap in pay between men and women in the U.S. persists today.
What will be an ideal response?
1. Socialization plays a role in the ways men and women self-sort into traditionally gendered occupations.
2. Traditionally masculine occupations are better paid overall than are traditionally female occupations.
3. Men have been slower to enter traditionally female-dominated occupations, because of stereotypes and lower pay, than women have been to enter traditionally male-dominated occupations.
4. Occupational penalties have been empirically documented for mothers, but not for fathers.
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