When it comes to finances, women have historically gotten the short end of the stick. In 2022, for every $1 that men made, women earned 82 cents — and that’s only about 10 cents higher than it was nearly a decade earlier. The wage gap is closing… but at a very slow pace.
Jennifer is Assistant National Sales Manager at DFS Marketing, where she helps manage a team of marketers and trains new members to sell annuities. She began working at DFS in 2020 as a Junior Account Manager, before being promoted only eight months later to Senior Account Manager.
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There is a major fallacy regarding the income argument.
The reason why women earn 18% less (and yes, the gap used to be much larger) is the fact that women often take time off for having babies and rearing children.
When the fact is considered that women will usually depart from the job force for 3, to as much as 10 years, for the purpose of raising a family is considered in this equation, their relative earnings is on par with men the vast majority of the time.