There has always been an instability of the U.S economy and it isn’t a good sign when there is not equity in wages that are being given to females in the workforce. The a part of a great contributor for poverty is the gender wage pay gap. Data from the “Status of Women in the states”, an organization working towards providing current and updated data for women, show that, “If women in the United States received equal pay with comparable men, poverty for working women would be reduced by half,” it would reduce, “ poverty rate among all working women… [and] fall from 8.2 to 4.0 percent,” (“SWS”). Looking into this in retrospect, it is important to know that if the wage gap increases there will be a line up with the increase of poverty in…