I am sooo tired of this subject.

I am for equal pay for same job if you are qualified to do it.

...always have been...other than that, this is over thirty year old news now.

Move on....please whine somewhere else.

Women generally don't make as much as men because they tend to take time off to have kids, they don't want to to take the jobs that require travel and working weekends, and in general they don't want to put in the long, hard hours that men do. I would challenge anyone to show one instance of a woman who has done exactly the same job for the same hours as a man for the same length of time, who earns less than the man for doing it. If that were true, why on earth would any company hire men?????

They want equal pay?  Join the United States Armed Forces.  The guy slinging hash at the dining facility in Ft Hood, TX makes the same amount of money as an equally ranked woman turning a wrench in the vehicle maintenance depot in Baghdad. 

I served 7 years in the USAF in a highly technical career field dealing with extremely sensitive material that was vital to our national security.  My training lasted more than 12 months.  That was eight hours per day, five days a week for over a year.  I had to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance.  This required an extensive background investigation.  After all was said and done, I still made the same amount of money as the girl handing out towels at the base gym.  Her training lasted an exhausting two weeks.

Now I work in the private sector.  I'm doing the same job that I was doing in the AF, but I'm making double the money.  Don't want to join the military?  Take your chances in the corporate world.  That's all I have to say about that.

Four White Women with varying pay levels have all the answers.  They won't even mention the Peterless Principle Perky Katie Couric suffers under.

Can we get Sheryl Crow added to the View?

Every one of these stories about the so called wage gap conveniently ignores the fact that women earn less because of the choices they make, and I don’t just mean leaving the job to have children.  It is no secret that an Engineering major makes more money than an Art History major.  Yet the Engineering majors are overwhelmingly male and the Art History majors are overwhelmingly female. 

 There is no National Guard at the schoolhouse door preventing women from entering technical fields; it is the women themselves who prefer entering the softer sciences.  (Oh, sorry, we’re not supposed to notice that.)  Get ready for “Comparable Worth” to rear its ugly head once again with a sympathetic congress in charge.  This would put the government in charge of setting wages so that the female daycare worker will be put on a par with the male accountant and the waitress will be equated with a doctor.

 I am old enough to remember back when women asked for an equal chance to prove themselves and be treated just like men.  They have had that chance for the last 40 years and they don’t like being treated the way men are in the workplace and are now demanding special rules to save them from their own poor choices.

Tom Paine, true about the choices our kids make.  My oldest son is a  business major and is only making 40K a year maybe alittle more. But loves what hes doing. Our next daughter is an EE major and right out of college made 65K. She travels alot, doesnt like that much but loves the money.  Our next daughter is in the Navy and doesnt make that much and really loves it. our youngest isnt making much, but loves his job.  ya never know......its all about choices....dont those women always nag about the right to choose??? 

Art Appreciation?? hahahahahhahahaha How much do you think a man or woman should make for that?? Like the art of a chocolate Jesus or dung Mary?? thanks for the laugh......I like art by the masters, but come on....

Right out of college, I knew for a fact that I was starting at the same salary as my male counterparts, but within 2 years I'd fallen behind them, because invariably they'd get promoted first. Didn't matter that we were doing the same job with the same training and that (in the mind of a lot of my female counterparts) I was routinely besting my male counterparts in terms of job performance, the men would get their promotions first and then the women would follow behind. Routinely. Didn't matter at all. I stayed with this employer 12 years, and their pattern never changed. This employer got investigated routinely for their minority hiring practices and promotion patterns, they'd "promise" to do better, and then things would go right back to the way they were. By the time I was ready to quit, I had been actively passed over for promotion for six years. Every time I was ranked #1 for promotion from my organization, by the time it got to the folks who actually made the choice, they'd gotten some ultimatum from some "valuable" male employee who was tired of getting "passed over" for promotion and suddenly that guy who was maybe in the top 5 on the list would jump to #1, and mysteriously they'd only have one promotion slot available. I confirmed that the only way to make #1 on the list was to threaten resignation just days after I'd started my new job hunt and put my resume through the corporate approval chain; the head of the promotion board had his secretary call my office and have me come in for a quick meeting. "You know, you're number one on the list," the head of the promotion board said, "but we hear you're looking for a new job. We don't want to waste a promotion--are you leaving us?" (The clear implication being, "if you stay, we'll make sure you stay #1 on the list instead of undercutting you again.") I said I hadn't yet made up my mind whether I was staying or going, but that shouldn't be a deciding factor as to whether I got a promotion that three different executives within the organization had openly said I was long overdue for. The speed at which that man's face blanched was priceless; I wish I'd had a camera. Two weeks later, just as the promotion list was due out, I left. I never did ask whether I was still #1 on the list.

So, yes, it happens. Fortunately, I'm now at a job where I'm paid commensurate with my skills, regardless of my gender. Life is good.