Although women now make up almost half of all workers in theUS, nearly 80 percent of them are employed in low-paying clerical, sales, service, or factory jobs. Approximately a third of all women workers have clerical jobs, which pay(42)____average $12,000 or less. Partly as a result, women make only seventy-five cents for every dollar (43)___by men. (44)_____, men routinely make more money even when education, experience, and responsibilties are (45)___
The gap in male-female earning had great significance because more than 16 percent of US households are (46)_____by women. Low-paying jobs keep many of these households in poverty. Women’s groups such as National Organization for Women have demanded that equal opportunities and equal pay (47)______to women. According to women’s (48)_____Maggie McAnany, “It is imperative that the government help to change the stiation (of employment for women). We cannot wait for the companies to (49)_____themselves. Change must come (50)______the law.”
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