Status Quo In the period 1963-1974 there was a wage inequality between women compared to men. The reasons for pay inequality for women were due to a variety of reasons, including segregated job rosters and insufficient access to professional jobs. In the early 1960s, newspapers published separate job listings for men and women. Jobs were also classified by gender, with higher-level jobs listed exclusively under “Help Wanted-Male.” For example, in New York Times (NYT) classified ads 69 and 78 published on September 27, 1964, jobs as scientific programmers are listed exclusively under "Help Wanted-Male" while jobs as typists are listed exclusively under "Help Wanted-Male" Female" (P1-2). Furthermore, women were paid much less than men. According to the Library of Economics and Liberty, in the early 1960s, women with full-time jobs were paid 59-62% of what men were paid (Goldin 4). This shows that women were paid 59-62 cents for every dollar paid to men. Lack of access to professional jobs and the labor market has further contributed to wage inequality. According to the NYT article titled “The Second Feminist Wave,” “…7% of the country's doctors are women, 3% of the lawyers, 1% of the engineers… (Lear 2)” The article will also say “ As for the labor market: there are 28 million women and three quarters of them are at the bottom. Ninety percent earn less than $5,000 a year… (Lear 2)” So women had very little access to professions such as: law, medicine and engineering. And 90% of all working women were paid less than $5,000 a year. During the early years from 1963 to 1974 women had a pay disparity compared to their working counterparts due to segregated job listings, little access to professional jobs and… on the status of women, Betty Friedan, NOW and NYRW sought to change the status quo of wage inequality in the United States. These groups would achieve change through: protests, legislation and court cases. From the Equal Pay Act to the ban on segregated help-wanted ads, these groups helped advance the status quo of the early 1963-1974 period. While these groups accomplished many things, they would fail in some areas. The NOW would fail to surpass the ERA, and the Equal Pay Act would fail to ensure full pay equality for women. But thanks to these groups, women have gained: better access to work, equal pay legislation and a more active government role in the field of women's rights. All these efforts have led to women having a salary comparable to that of men. However, women did not receive the same pay as men, resulting in continued pay inequality during the period 1963-1974.