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Introduction: After the 1960s women’s liberation movement, one of the dramatic changes has been the increased women’s participation in paid employment, for both working and middle class women, especially married women. In the US, the labor force participate rate of women was 35% in 1960, and in 2010, it was more than 60% (For man it was about 65%) (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2011); however, co-existent with such change has always been one constant, the gender pay gap. In the 2009 US labor market, median weekly earnings for female full-time workers were $657, compared with $819 per week for