Other countries have much less of a gender wage gap than in the United States. In fact, in some countries the wage gap is negligible. Why does it continue to exist in the United States? What impediments to full earning equality exist for American women? What can be done to change this?
What will be an ideal response?
Most women work in low-paying job fields; even in most of those, they are still subject to lower pay than their male counterparts. When women are afforded opportunities to move into positions of power, often the earnings gap widens even further. Laws like the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act help to start to make it harder for companies to engage in such discriminatory pay practices, but the fact that most salaries are not openly known by others keeps companies safe in many cases when they engage in such discriminatory acts. Affirmative Action policies should also be widely applied to women to equalize opportunities. Paternity leave could be made available to men by more employers, as well as time off for parenting needs for men, so that women are not seen as potential economic liabilities because of the greater allowances sought for child-care and parenting issues.
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a) the formation of a three-person subsystem in which one member is emotionally excluded b) the formation of a three-person subsystem in which two members are emotionally excluded c) the formation of a three-person subsystem in which no members are emotionally excluded d) the formation of a subsystem in which three members are emotionally excluded