(Opinion) Sheryl Sandberg: Pay gap holds us all back
“The consequences are real and painful. If the pay gap were closed, the average working woman would earn over half a million dollars more in her lifetime. She’d get an annual income bump that would pay for a year and a half of groceries or nearly a full year of rent. The number of working women living in poverty would be cut in half. Men would benefit as well: think of all the struggling two-income couples where the woman getting paid fairly would increase the economic security of the entire family. There are national costs too. Last year, the pay gap in the United States amounted to $513 billion in lost wages. That’s nearly the entire GDP of Sweden.”