The "gender wage gap" is not a minor problem. It is a much bigger problem. President Obama mentions the issue of the "gender gap" in his State of the Union Address. To introduce his topic, President Obama declares "Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns." (State of the Union Address). President Obama testifies that gender wage gaps are still visible in 2014 and how it is disappointing (State of the Union Address). Why is this disappointing to President Obama? It may be because it is has been over three decades since women have been working. They should be making the same amount of money as men. Yet, women are not paid equally than men.
According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, a woman makes an average of 80 cents for every dollar a man makes (Labor Statistics). Furthermore, a table, arranged by the Information Please Database, shows that in 1960, the average ratio was 60.7 cents to one dollar a man makes. There was an improvement of an average 19.3 cents over the course of fifty years (Information Please Database).