The Wage Gap Persists: In Eileen Patten’s article, On Equal Pay Day, Key Facts About the Gender Pay Gap …show more content…
A woman named Cheryl Hughes was a single mother who pursued an engineering degree was unable to overcome the unequal pay due to the fact that she was an African American woman. Another woman named Anastasia Engebretson accepted the salary that she was getting paid without negotiating and ended up working with other male technicians, a few whom had less education and relevant experience than her but were getting paid more than her. These personal stories by women in today’s society further proves as to why women should earn the right to get equal pay. By getting rid of the wage gap can prevent women from going through the obstacles that Hughes and Engebretson