It was once. Not now. Now salary is fixed on the basis of their qualification and the weight of work they do.Nowadays Women are equal to men in many aspects.

discrimination, the glass ceiling, etc. women are paid less because people think that women will not do as good of a job, despite having NO evidence to support this conclusion. also a common arguement is that women take off more time in order to do things like care for family members, women require help with manual labor, and it costs more to employ women because they need things like tampon dispensers in the bathrooms. ... basically it's just a bunch of crap made to make men think they are more capable/smart than women.

The Equal Pay Law prohibits this type of pay habits. Statistics aren't always conclusive. There may be more men in a certain industry, they may have more experience in the field and so on. Taking the bottom line in a statistic doesn't work. ecspecially if they just averaged all men and women across the country. A lot of jobs are male dominated. Construction, heavy industry, comercial fishing and so on. Not saying women can't and don't do those jobs, I'm saying they are dominated by men. These are all high paying jobs which is going to change the median. I work one of the largest Food manufacturers in the world and most of the highest paid corporate positions here are held by women. ot to mention there are still alot of women that chose only to work part-time and stay home to take care of kids. This all effects the median in a statistic. Bottom line is, if someone pays a women less based on sex, its illegal.

Most common reasons include: -women are more likely to take a career break in their twenties and thirties (to have children), which are key times for promotion. -women are more likely to work part time or require more flexible working hours (due to childcare or other family commitments) which can be interpreted as being less comitted to a company. - women are more likely to choose to work in sectors which are traditionally lower paid (such as nursing or caring, or in education and the arts)rather than sectors with potentially high earnings (finance, big business) -Some companies are reluctant to hire or promote younger women into more responsible roles near the atart of their careers due to a perception that they will want to leave the role to start a family - thus delaying potential promotion until after the childbearing years and reducing lifetime earnings. - Women with full time careers is a fairly new phenomenon. Many women approaching retirement now began their careers at a time when women working full time, permanently and expecting career advancement was fairly unusual, and perhaps viewed with suspicion. Those who have entered the work force since this became the norm are still relatively young. I suspect in forty years time the pay gap will be much smaller.