Women and their families are affected strongly by the sexism in occupations due to the wage gap from simply being a female. In the article Women’s Rights it generally says in 2015 a study was held depicting how women were less equal, in treatment, in society along with media, and pay as the wage gap was at 21%.(Women’s Rights, 2). Despite denial of the wage gap existing it states in the same article that “Women’s rights a relevant issue in the United States in the twenty first century. In 2015 the United Nations investigated the place of women in American society and found that the United States’ record on equal treatment of women was poor, as women were not receiving the same pay as men for equal work”(Women’s right, 1). In Gender Based Wages
