CNBC: Gender Wage Gap- Myth or Reality

This video shows the problem with the gender wage gap that ties in to the battle against males and females in America. Steven suggests that wages for women are going up much faster than as for men, Carrie Lukas quickly disagrees with his statement (4:00/6:48).

The battle of the sexes can refer to any competition between men and women. This can range form athletic contests, like the 1973 tennis match between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King, to social equality issues like the right to vote and equal pay for equal work. The battle of the sexes can often involve various degrees of sexism. Sexism is the belief that one sex is superior to the other. Male chauvinism is the the belief that males are superior to females based solely on that they are men. The opposite of male chauvinism is the lesser used term of female chauvinism. One of the issues in the battle of the sexes is in the work place. When women began leaving the home to work along side their male co-workers there was a hostility from the males, whether from the belief that men could do work better than women or the fact that they could lose their job if a female did it better than they did. The term "glass ceiling" refers to women not being able to rise to the same positions as men for the same salary. Through the last thirty years the wage gap between men and women has become closer, but still not equal , with women making in average 78.7 cents for each dollar a male makes in the same job capacity. (portfolio.com)

The battle of the sexes in America has been around since the founding of the country. Women's suffrage groups fought for 144 years, from the year the Declaration of Independence was written (Abigail Adams wrote her husband John to "remember the ladies" when writing the document, with which he responded with humor.) to 1920, when the nineteenth amendment gave women the right to vote on a national scale. Some say that the battle of the sexes can be ended when men and women are finally equal on all levels, while others say that it is a never ending fight. (memory.loc.gov, portfolio.com)