The title of The Dallas Morning News article read “Research finds Texas women face smaller wage gap.” Wow! The deficit changed from 79 cents for every dollar her male counterpart earned in 2014 to 81 cents for every dollar her male counterpart earned in 2024. I’m almost giddy. Where is the confetti? Let’s have Jessica B. make her wonderful espresso martinis.  Really.

So, over the last ten years, women have only reduced the wage gap by 2 cents for every dollar their male counterparts earned.  This is nothing to cheer about.

EQUAL WORK DEMANDS EQUAL PAY!

An employment projection by the Texas Women’s Association says that by 2040, “women could make up the majority of the state’s workforce.”  Based on past progress, the wage gap will have improved by 2 to 3 cents to 83 to 84 cents for every dollar her male counterpart earns. It would take a monumental change in women’s earnings to reach parity.

The study found even wider disparities among Hispanic women, who earn “48 cents for every dollar a non-Hispanic white man earns.”

One can only wonder when the male-dominated government and business community will do something to change the mistreatment of women.

Perhaps the solution devised in Aristotle’s play by Lysistrata is the answer. The play is a comic account of Lysistrata’s mission to end the Peloponnesian War between Greek city-states by denying sex to all the men of the warring parties. Lysistrata persuades the women of the warring cities to engage in a sex strike as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace,^[1]

[1] “Lysistrata,” Wikipedia, Lysistrata – Wikipedia, retrieved November 13, 2026.