Discrimination Against Women

In the article, “Is the Wage Gap Difference between Men and Women Due to Discrimination” say since women usually major in English, gender studies, and communication skills than choosing to work in engineering, physics, and chemistry they will be usually paid less since it isn’t as important in today’s world. Others argue that if the education would be improved there would be no wage between men and women if both of their educations were set to the maximum. Others continue to say the wage gap between men and women are only a myth. However others say the wage gap does exist, but only because women continue to work in more “unimportant” jobs that do not require much pay.

They can do the same jobs as their male counterparts and their value in the work field still exists as inferior. Although companies will try to justify the pay difference, very often, they do not have valid reasoning why the males receive higher pay. Although these women encounter inequalities at all levels, it’s not simply an inequality, but a glass ceiling effect as a result of the distribution of women at the top being smaller and the inequality increases as the women go up the rung of the job market

Even though women 's lives improved during the 1920s in many ways, they still faced inequality in the workplace. Women gained the right to vote and new freedom in the 1920 's, but they were still discriminated against in the workplace. They were prevented from most well-paying jobs and middle and upper-class white women were expected to stay home instead. Most poorer women still held jobs that were low paying and struggled to work to support themselves and their families. Women worked longer hours and got paid significantly less than men did.

Women today are able to receive the education they want and build their own career. However, they do not have the full equality due to men getting paid higher than women along with women getting paid higher than others based on their racial background. Will women ever get paid the same as men do? Or will women continue to be paid less than men?

This piece of evidence is very important because when calculating for the wage gap unemployment is also taken into factor and there is a big gender employment gap with more women not in jobs. This means women will be earning less money when averaged with men because more men have jobs. Many women are out of work for many reasons such as family matters and still in a patriarchal society today men are seen as the “breadwinners” of families however, society is ever changing. Besides unemployment another major factor that goes into the so called wage gap are women's choices in jobs as well as the responsibilities many women are felt they need to take on as well as a career. In a paper by Watson (2017) the author states “Primarily, women are more likely to take time off work for childcare, leading to less experience and fewer opportunities for career growth later in life.

With having to pay more for products that need to be used for their daily hygiene and services like drying clean, it's just something that shouldn’t exist. In addition to paying more for products, women are commonly paid less than men “In 2015, female full-time workers made only 79 cents for every dollar earned by men, a gender wage gap of 21 percent.” (Pay Equity & Discrimination) While society keeps telling us that gender equal is strong, the price tags in products as well as salary show just how far we are from it. Taking charge and being aware of these problems in society will eventually led to changes. Will the end of inequality of the sexes ever be achieved?

Women had no rights when it came to working and since they didn’t have rights not many women got employed. Also, the jobs that were available were not for women and if mill owners decided to hire women they would go and hire immigrant women instead. The reason they would hire these immigrant women was because they accepted any amount of money so the owners of the mill would make more profit than they would if they paid American women to work for them. However, if a women did get a job they would normally get paid less than men did since they weren’t seen as equal to them and the conditions were usually not the best. Since there were no laws against discrimination in the 1800’s there was nothing an American women could do to demand the equality they deserved in the workforce.

The statement “I know how things can be for a women” proves that women have it difficult by their husbands, due to gender stereotypes. This gender stereotype is also discussed in “Philosophical and Political Issues Surrounding Gender.” The main argument of this source is that women are viewed as lesser than men, even though women have accomplished a lot in society. The effects of this gender discrimination is that women are powerless when it comes to many roles in society. In other words, “although great strides have been made by women in the Western world, parity has not been achieved.

The generations of today continue to believe some of the stereotypes made about entrepreneurs in order to classify all entrepreneurs as one group and type of person when everybody is different in their own way. Female Entrepreneurs specifically are looked at differently compared to males because guys are portrayed as being more smart and strong, but girls have shown that those statements are not true. Some of the stereotypes said about female entrepreneurs go back to how they are not respected by others or taken professionally because they are not supposed to be able to make it on their

The United States is currently facing an economical problem that involves males and female differences within the workplace. Males are given bigger and sometimes even better rewards for doing equal amounts of work as their female counterparts. Females are frequently not receiving the same wage even if they can complete the same job of a male. Also, females are less likely to get promoted within their job if they are competing against a male. A source states, “Women are now more likely to have college degrees than men, yet they still face a pay gap in every single education level,

When it comes to making claims it is hard unless there is enough information that can prove that the complainant was actually discriminated against because they were a man or woman. Mary can bring a claim for gender discrimination against her company because she has determined that because she is a woman that she makes thousands of dollars less than her male counterparts. There has been no reason given to why Mary makes that much less than her male counterparts. The issue with this scenario is that we don’t know if the organization that Mary works for uses the seniority, merit, or other pay systems. Most of the male counterparts could have received merit pay based off of their performance and evaluations throughout the last five years.

In his essay “John J. Macionis” which appear as The Twenty-First-Century Campus: Where is the Men? And this article show how the women have great social equality after long time of being not accepted in college. He describe who the women were not welcome in all the colleges or universities in United States in one century ago. Few years ago the number of women who go to college has increase until they finally matched the men. Moreover, the low income make more women go to college then men, and that because they able to find a jobs without needing for college degree.

Overall, women struggled to obtain degrees with which men could easily graduate. Without degrees, women would face an increasingly difficult time obtaining high paying jobs that matched those of their male coworkers. The majority of institutions, professors, and classmates discouraged the presence of women

This act however is hardly ever followed and even those proven to have disobeyed the law usually get away with it. In the U.S there is still people who disbelieve the fact that women are still paid less than men women however have fired back at such people commenting on how it’s technically illegal to pay women less. For example a tumblr post respond to men insisting that women are paid equal to men. The tumblr user responded and I quote, “Do you know what’ else is illegal?

Why would a woman as capable as a man to run a company will earn less than they do and this is just in corporate America. We even see this with actors and actresses where the female counterparts to the men earn much more less than they do of course we see improvements but there is still so much more to go. Of course this is one of the main focuses in America’s society, but worldwide there are many other factors to be focused on. Let us address women’s equality around the world where women are not allowed to vote, get an education or state their wishes or demand rights. Because women are viewed as less than men, many cultures do very little to protect their women against sexual crimes and or get justice for them.