A recent article on equal pay for woman celebrates the Equal Pay Day and surfaces the improvement of pay-scale since 1960’s. The article analyses the increase of salary in a diminishing rate, from the view point of Evelyn Murphy, an economist and a former lieutenant governor of Massachusetts and the author of Getting Even: ‘Why Women Don’t Get Paid Like Men — and What to Do About It. And the reasons were pretty much gone.’ Murphy argues that an off on emergencies like raising children, marriage or pregnancy cannot be an excuse the unequal pay received by women, inspite of the fact that the level of responsibility, efficiency and overall stands same in case of both men and women professionals.



Murphy has set up wage clubs along with woman and in co-ordination with Annie Houle, the New England regional representative to the YWCA National Advocacy Board, to educate women about their rights and help them to get their fair-share at their respective jobs. Well, this discrimination is not seen in all parts of the world, irrespective of the position enjoyed by women, nevertheless the matters of salary should be clarified on before the day of appointment so that a women rests assured that she is getting what her work in the workplace deserves.