The wage gap between the sexes exists at least since the era of the American civil war, when a letter of 1869 in THE New York Times An unjust exposed treatment of women working in the government and argued that “equality of work should grant equal remuneration regardless of the sex of the worker”. Quick advance of 156 years and women still only earn 83 cents for each dollar that men earn, a number that has barely moved in the past two decades and is consistent in OECD countries.
