https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Onniy08AY&feature=youtu.be
This video is slightly dated, but I came across it again recently, and I felt it was relevant to the discussion of the wage gap. The video clearly shows us that there's something in society that's ingraining in the younger generation the bizarre idea that women are lazier or more frivolous than men and should be paid less. I, personally, think it's frightening that children are still growing up today thinking the wage gap is both normal and justifiable, given how long the fight for equal pay has been waged/waging (no pun intended).
I wonder how the kids who said women worked less and were more distracted than men, developed their opinions. As far as I know, popular culture depicts the stereotypical teenage girl to be distracted, and with little interest in anything other than shopping. Because of this, I wonder if the children associated the stereotypical teenage girl to the average working woman? If this was the case, why didn't they do the same for men?
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