The controversy over gender wage discrimination has been frequently addressed within American journalism in the post-modern era. The increasing popularity and credibility of the belief that women truly get paid more than men led to the establishment of Equal Pay Day in 1996 by the National Committee on Pay Equity. This April 12, The United States celebrated the 21st Equal Pay Day. Both liberals and conservatives alike published their beliefs on this widespread debate through media sources such as Vox (a liberal media platform) and the National Review (a conservative media platform). The Vox article, entitled “The Gender Wage Gap Isn't About Women's Choices. It's About How We Value Their Work” speaks to the moral side of the gender wage gap. Author Emily Crockett acknowledges the …show more content…
Both Crockett and Lukas back up their information with statistics that strengthen their respective claims, and selectively choose their graphs and figures so they can support their information. However, their personal biases lead to extreme differences of execution on their responses to the gender wage discrimination. Crockett often reports on social issues such as “reproductive health, paid family and sick leave, human trafficking, executive orders on economic and LGBT equality, military/campus sexual assault policies, women’s economic equality/security, labor and wage equality, and immigration.” in a liberal manner . Her previous articles show that she is very leftist and pro-women’s rights. Lukas, on the other hand, had worked on Capitol Hill as the senior domestic policy analyst for the House Republican Policy Committee, and shares many of the Republican parties’ conservative beliefs. Much of her work focuses on the gender wage gap, and why it doesn't exist based on systemic differences about the choices that women choose to work in the workplace, like less hours hours and unpaid