How Men Can Help Achieve Women's Economic Equality

How Men Can Help Achieve Women's Economic Equality
BERLIN, GERMANY - MARCH 21: Peer Steinbrueck (L), chancellor candidate of the German Social Democrats (SPD) and Andrea Nahles (R), general secretary of the SPD, and SPD Bundestag member Elke Ferner attend an Equal Pay Day rally in front of the Brandenburg Gate on March 21, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. The annual event recognizes the wage gap between women and men in the country, where women's salaries still lag behind that of men, particularly in the states that were once East Germany. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)
BERLIN, GERMANY - MARCH 21: Peer Steinbrueck (L), chancellor candidate of the German Social Democrats (SPD) and Andrea Nahles (R), general secretary of the SPD, and SPD Bundestag member Elke Ferner attend an Equal Pay Day rally in front of the Brandenburg Gate on March 21, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. The annual event recognizes the wage gap between women and men in the country, where women's salaries still lag behind that of men, particularly in the states that were once East Germany. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)

Tuesday, August 26, is the Congressionally designated day to commemorate the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920 giving women the right to vote and to take stock of women’s progress in gaining full equality. While women have in fact made many strides since the 1920s, making up nearly half the work force, closing the gender wage gap, and gaining more seats of power in today’s companies, there is, in President Obama’s words, “more work to do.”

Women have been waging campaigns, voting, and otherwise fighting for equal footing in the economy. But it may be time for men to step up and join them in some key ways.

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