Time Span and Control

emma: I used to think I was calm and in control, according to The Guardian. Then I had children Emma Brockes Read more They found that over this time span, women make on average 49 to every dollar that men make yes, less than half. While the difference is usually calculated based on how much money men and women respectively make working full-time over the course of a year, the new data from the Institute for Women's Policy Research takes a look at women and men's income over 15 years. And the reason is simple women are more than twice as likely than men are to leave paid work to look after their children, or their ageing parents, or both. Men and women who take a year out suffer approximately the same penalty to their income, but women who stay at home for four years are paid 65% less than other women who continued working, whereas men who drop out for the same amount of time make 57% as much as other men who don't take the same amount of time out. The problem gets worse unsurprisingly the longer that we drop out of the workforce. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.