Men should be paid more than women in the US Coy and Dwoskin offer a scenario where a certain woman realized that she was getting lower pay than her male counterparts holding a similar job description to hers She had been in that position for nineteen years and she had never realized that her colleagues were getting fifteen to forty percent more than she was getting (Coy and Dwoskin n.p). This discovery is the scenario on which the two writers based their explanation as to why women earn substantially less than their male counterparts holding similar jobs do. The two writers indicate that there are several factors that contribute to the lower salary scales for women. Women often spend years in the workplace without ever noticing that their male counterparts in the same jobs receive higher salaries because discussion about salaries is often frowned upon in the workplace