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Gender Inequality at Work: How Does It Happen and What Are the Consequences for Women, Families, and the Economy?

In America, women make up 56% of workers in the 20 lowest-paid jobs, and just 29% of those in the 20 highest-paid jobs. Women are more likely to graduate college, but still earn less than men. Let's examine why in a female worker dominated world, where women are more educated than men, work harder than men, live longer than men, and practically out perform men in almost every way -  but yet still can't climb the corporate ranks to assume power and authority that men still horde. Despite over half the American workforce being women, women have really experienced zero progressive changes in American society, and are in fact stepping backwards when a notoriously perverted sexist "runs" our country and reproductive rights are getting whittled away, whether it's another  an abortion clinic closing  at an unprecedented rate, someone debating if birth control should be illegal instead of free and accessible, or if Planned Parenthood is evil or useful.     The