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QUESTION

1. How do you create comfort at home?

2. do you live in an apartment or a house?

3. do you have pets? If you have animals, how often do you walk them?

The gender pay gap is influenced by a variety of factors, including discriminatory

hiring and pay practices, choice of occupation, family leave and childcare policies,
and more.   
Whether by choice or by necessity, many women work jobs that tend to have lower
wages, such as jobs in the service industry. Since women are disproportionately
represented in these low-paid fields, it has the overall effect of lowering women’s
earnings when compared with men. 
Women are more likely totake parental leave or time off from work to care for a
child, which can have a life-long impact on their earning potential. Employers with
inadequate family leave and childcare policies often put working parents in an
impossible position, forcing them to move to lower-paid positions with part-time
hours or flexible scheduling in order to care for their families. 
However, we have strategies for narrowing the gender pay gap: 
1. Raise the minimum wage. 
2. Fair scheduling practices can help to close the gender pay gap by allowing
employees to ask for scheduling accommodations and reducing inconsistent or
unpredictable scheduling. 
3. Expand paid family and medical leave. Women are still more likely than men
to take parental leave, as well as to take time off of work to care for children or
other relatives. Because workplaces offer inadequate family and medical leave for
 their employees, this means that women may be forced to leave the workforce in
order to fulfill caregiving responsibilities. 
4. Reject stereotype. Of course, there are women who do not want to have
children and choose a career. There are also men who will sit with the child, or
parents can have a nanny or take the child to kindergarten. 
Making these changes at the individual, company, state, and national level could go
a long way towards achieving equal pay for equal work. I believe that in the future
we won`t have this problem. But until then, there’s still plenty of work to do.