I have some news that is going to shock everyone, so please,
brace yourself. Maybe hold on to your framed diploma; you know,
that piece of paper that cost you a good $160,000. Here it is:
Women earn less money than men. Not so shocking after all, is
it? But it should be. Because, as a new study suggests and the
Huffington Post reports, this pay gap is not simply the result
of women’s choices — a theory that is so often used to explain
the well-acknowledged salary disparity between men and women in
America. Common wisdom also tells us that the reason men as a
whole earn more than women is because they choose higher-paying
careers, and women tend to put family first after having
children. In order to test this hypothesis, the American
Association of University Women conducted a study at a point in
the subjects’ lives when these variables should not come into
play: the study looked at men and women a year out of college.
The findings were only slightly better than the average wage gap
for America at large: Where