Since the issue arose in the 1860s – the pay gap between men and women in the workforce – it has never become completely resolved all around the world today. For every dollar that a man makes, a woman makes $0.84. The image on the left represents the ratio of the difference in pay ($0.42 for women, and $0.50 for men). The image on the right represents what we wish it was like all around the world – equal pay between the genders.