Average Woman Worker Loses Nearly Half a Million to Pay Discrimination
..........lifetime earnings of average female workers trailed those of their male counterparts by hundreds of thousands of dollars. In one profession, the law, the gap is $1.48 million.
And the pay gap understates the lifetime earnings chasm, Arons noted. Quoting Ledbetter, Arons pointed out the lifetime gap not only affects a woman's pay but her pension levels and her Social Security earnings base. All are lower.
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Society suffers when women's wages are unfair because women, their children, and their entire families suffer.