I have to wonder if I would be in college today if I didn t play basketball well enough to get a scholarship. My mom has always worked hard and sacrificed for me, but she only made enough for us to live on, never enough to save for college. My mom believes in the value of a good education. She attended college thinking if she had a college education, she would be able to make more money. This wasn t always the case because of the wage gap between her and her co-workers.
Wage gaps are pay differences that are based on gender, race or class.
These wage gaps are caused by differences in education, labor force experience and mostly to discrimination because of gender and race. The most noticeable wage gaps are found between men and women. My mom is a property appraiser at the court house in Tampa. She s been in that job for almost 15 years and has a Master s degree in business administration. In her work group, white men with only a high school education got paid more than she did.