Why Do Women Still Earn Less Money Than Men?

In today's lecture we discussed the disproportion of gender roles in society. We discussed how women are portrayed cooking and baking for family and friends, whereas men cook and bake for a business purpose or goal. Another issue pertaining to the gender roles issue is that women are still payed less than men. In the article I found titled, Why Do Women Still Earn Less Than Men? from the TIME.com, gave a passage which discussed why men make more when having a job or career then a women. And then gave some statistics on why women choose to take time off work to take care of womanly issues. In my opinion, women shouldn't be penalized for giving birth or raising a family due to taking time off from there career or job just because this is something they have take care of. In the article, it stated that women working in the United States still earn seventy-seven cents to every dollar that a man earns. This number was even less for Latino and African American women. Men tend to be doctors, business executives, lawyers, and scientist,while women tend to work in the education and nursing field. I believe women shouldn't receive less pay when they have the same educational backgrounds as men tend to have. They also meet the same job qualifications as men do, so with saying that, there should be equal pay with both genders.