Consequently, President Obama in 2009 signed this very first bill, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Play Act to narrow the pay gap between men and women. However, women still earn lower wages than men according to many recent studies. The January, 2016 White House Brief states that, “the median wage of a woman working full-time all year in the United States is about $39,600—only 79 percent of a man’s median earnings of $50,400” (FACT SHEET: New steps to advance equal pay on the seventh anniversary of the Lilly Ledbetter fair pay act, 2016). In addition, recent research data also suggest that the median wages of women are lower than that of men irrespective of whether the income is measured based hourly, weekly or annual earnings (Costello and Hegewisch,