The progressive movement tried to solve equality of wages for women. The problem was that wages of women was not equal to the wages of men.Women worked just as hard and had more things to do then the men had to do. Progressive leaders tried to solve the problem by helping to create the womens rights movement and caused to much drama. Even to this day women do not get paid as much as men for the same jobs they do for some areas of work. They don't get treated as fairly either which is still in certain areas of work as well. The progressivim movement leaders tried to help but did not do such a great job.