1. MSN News Presents 50 Years After Equal Pay Acts Passage
Currency:
Definitely current published 6/11/2013
Information is updated on the subject of gender pay gap
The best information would work if it were current but older sources will only help show
the progress of the pay gap
Relevance:
Gave me a good update on how the progression of the gender pay gap & definitely
relates
Targets more so the female adolescent and over
I would cite this source only because of its currency & up to date graphs
Authority:
RiyaBhattacharjee (author), MSN News (publisher)
MSN News blogger; has several blogs published… over 280 to be more specific
I believe she is qualified because it’s not all of her information. She is reporting on the
professional information that she has access to. I don’t think it is as serious as if she
were claiming all information was coming directly from her.
There is no specific information to contact her only that she is a blog reporter for MSN
News.
Accuracy:
US Census Bureau, reported on Francine Blau& Lawrence Kahn who teach labor
economics at Cornell University & also worked on a research project on the US gender
pay gap, as well as Richard Cohen who is a New York-based lawyer with a specialization
in labor law
Yes there are graphs and reliable sources such as the US Census Bureau
Yes because it is published on MSN News
Yes I found nearly the statistics on another website
I feel as if the text is fairly equal
No errors
Purpose:
Inform us on the gender wage gap & slightly the Equal Pay Act
The information is based upon facts with incite from people who work in that field.
There is slight personal bias coming from one that studies the field.
http://news.msn.com/us/50-years-after-equal-pay-acts-passage-gender-wage-gap-still-persists

2. Currency:
Published in 2009
Information has been updated. This is the fourth edition of the book.
Older sources only work to help see the progress on the gender pay gap
The bibliography is around 2004