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In a recent article "Will Boston succeed in closing the gender wage gap" by Mary Kozelka from NBC News she talks about the struggles that women have in the workplace, and how wages are still far from being fair for women compared to men. Kozelka's purpose clearly comes off as being quite descriptive because she feels as if this is an very important topic that you should know your facts on.

As Kozelka states "Right now, however, women in the U.S. earn 77 cents for every dollar men make" This gives one more of a bigger picture of how unequal things are in today's society, men are bringing in another whole 23 cents over women that are perfectly capable of doing the same job, just because of gender differences.

Also stated in the article "“Women in Boston make up more than half the population and half the workforce … They are central to families. They are central to the communities. They're central to business,” Okay, sure women get good recognition and publicity but it's about time that they start getting to benefit from it by being able to make just as much as males since they are so "central" to businesses. 

One of Kozelka's bigger points "According to the compact, roadblocks such as inflexible work hours, lack of female role models -- and perhaps the most pervasive obstruction --unconscious bias, make it difficult to grow and remain in the workplace as a female employee." Just because for say a group of women or past employees that a company has had pretty well match up to some of this unconscious bias does not mean that all of the female gender should have to suffer because of the way of a select few females present themselves. 

This reminds me of a time back at my previous employer where me and one of my best friends that happens to be of the female gender worked at. We both had been working there for the same amount of time, same position, and same days. Payday came around. Walking to the break room, we compared paychecks. There it was clear as day, even though it was just a couple of cents more, she was still making less than me just for the simple fact of her gender. Everything else about our job was exactly the same, so this was clearly the culprit.

Not every female needs a male figure, human being of the male gender,  to take care of them, and are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves just fine. But how can one do this when they still seem to be coming in second in the workplace with men being the first and making more. The problem having risen, we still have done nothing. Maybe one day our society will realize how unfair this can be to some and just how it affects the women that do work their butts off for a living everyday.