“We are becoming the people we wanted to be,” Gloria Steinem, a journalist and social activist, declared in the 1970s. So have women really become the people they wanted to be? Yes. 【小题1】 And they are nurses, clerks, doctors, scientists and so on. For a better understanding, here are some true data about women at work.

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One of the great changes in gender equality is taking place in education. More women graduate from high school, attend and graduate from college. In 1994, 63 percent of female high school graduates and 61 percent of male high school graduates were enrolled in college the following fall, according to the Pew Research Center. By 2012, that number for women jumped to 71 percent, but remained unchanged for males, at 61 percent.

The wage gap between males and females is still existing.

Even as more women are flooding onto college campuses, here’s a disappointing trend. 【小题3】 But there still is a gap between their earnings and men’s earnings. Women in professional specialty occupations earn 72.7 percent of what men in the same position earn.

Is there any place women earn the same as men?

No. Unfortunately, there is no such place. But it can be to a woman’s advantage to work in a labor union. 【小题4】 So, while there is a gap, it’s much less than in professions without unions, where women make 72 percent of men’s incomes.

Women bring home more income.

【小题5】 Over 40 percent of moms are now the sole or primary source of income in U.S. households. Women are now the primary or co-money-maker in nearly two-thirds of American families and working married women bring home 44 percent of their family income.