In "How to Attack the Gender Wage Gap? Speak Up" (Dec. 16), a solution is proposed for the problem of pay inequality: make women stronger negotiators in securing their own salaries.
I find it uncanny how similar they both are yet the age gap speaks volumes.
GAP spoke with congressional staff members familiar with the issue and saw that they are hamstrung.
This 20-point perception gap speaks to W.E.B. DuBois' 1903 assertion that "the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line".
This gap speaks to the fact that very few -- not least the mainstream media -- understand what he was doing and, and more to the point, why we are asking the wrong people to comment.
(According to a report issued last year by the Pew Center on the States, as of 2008 there was a $1 trillion gap, conservatively speaking, between what the states have promised in pensions and benefits for their retirees and what they have on hand to pay for them).
(According to a report issued last year by the Pew Center on the States, as of 2008 there was a $1 trillion gap, conservatively speaking, between what the states have promised in pensions and benefits for their retirees and what they have on hand to pay for them). Then again, he may simply be the latest in a long line of politicians to give an uneasy public the scapegoat it demands.
"To close the gap of speaking time, we just need more female characters," said team member Selen Berkman, a sophomore majoring in math and computer science.
And while a turkey sandwich on wheat bread -- a lean meat plus whole grains rich in protein and fiber -- is a healthy choice (especially compared to the greasy deli or the food trucks outside your office) there are still some gaps, nutritionally speaking.
Although the gap between spoken and printed vocabulary has narrowed since James Murray began his monumental work in an Oxford garden shed nearly 120 years ago, it has by no means closed.
