Myths about the gender pay gap...

Some of you in class have raised questions about the validity of the gender pay gap.  I have tried to answer your questions in class, but maybe this article will further help resolve any doubts you might have on this issue...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/no-the-gender-pay-gap-isnt-a-myth-and-heres-why_us_5703cb8de4b0a06d5806e03f

Gentrification gone haywire!...

CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS!  Cabrini Green was once one of Chicago's most infamous housing projects.  It once housed 15,000 people from low income families.  In the early 2000s the Chicago Housing Authority began to dismantle Cabrini Green, which was increasingly surrounded by high end real estate.  Now look what's happened to the property...

http://chicagoist.com/2016/02/08/2_bedrooms_in_cabrini-greens_new_hi.php

More on America's unfortunately enduring gender pay gap...

The last article I posted was about the U.S. Women's Soccer team and how their experience illustrates the ongoing problem with gender pay inequity in this country.  Here is an article with a broader view of how this problem persists.  Not the dimension of race here as well.  Women of color are especially harmed by the gender pay gap...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/no-the-gender-pay-gap-isnt-a-myth-and-heres-why_us_5703cb8de4b0a06d5806e03f