The Wage Gap Throughout the past few centuries, women in the United States and all over the world have been struggling to have equal opportunities as men do. Furthermore, for the past six or so decades, the amount of working women has increased to forty-six percent of the nation's workforce. The wage gap between men and women has dramatically decreased since the rise in female employment. Just in the past fourteen years, the wage gap has narrowed by twelve percent. However, feminists believe that women are being treated unfairly because men, in general, earn about twenty-five percent more annually tha