Also, depicted in the graph is the comparisons per gender. While keeping the race the same, the median hourly wage for men is significantly higher. Solutions to lowering the wage gap include the Paycheck Fairness Act, which was obstructed by congress. According to Kaitlin Holmes a special Assistant for the Women’s Initiative Center for American Progress, “The Paycheck Fairness Act would be a critical step forward in closing the gender wage gap by prohibiting gender-based pay discrepancies and banning workplace policies that penalize employees for sharing wage information” (Holmes). As stated previously, not only is there a gap between wages, but as a society we’ve shut down routes to expose, and fix the difference in
With the current elections bringing about many debates on hot topic issues it is no surprise that women’s suffrage has become a battle cry for many presidential candidates. These candidates play to the hopes of many women by promising equal rights for equally qualified male and female workers. These persuasive and motivating arguments for women’s rights calls to question what is the extent of this issue? The reality is that there is a significant wage gap between male and female workers. This wage gap causes men to be paid more than women, even when they do the same jobs and are equally qualified for those jobs.
Shaun Herman DIT Task 3 11/27/15 In the United States of America, the land of the free and the home of the brave everything is not equal. Women make less money than men do and it has been proven to be in general seventy eight cents to the dollar. Even when the comparison is within the same job field there is a difference. Black and Latino women make even less compared to white men. What’s even worse is the pay gap is not getting better.
Gender pay gap is becoming more important subject of various discussions. One of the major fighters in this gender based problem are feminists. They claim that an unequal payment is a consequence
Shining some much-needed sunlight on the gender wage gap will make a difference for every one of us, men and women, right now.” (www.nytimes.com, 16). “It’s the twenty-first century, and the gender wage gap affects the daily life of women throughout the country, at every economic level, from cashier to CEO. Is it fair? No.
This is the gender wage gap that started almost half a century ago since women advocated for going into the workforce where women earned 55 cents of every dollar a man makes. Decades later and the wage gap has only narrowed by a small margin. When considering women’s wages and it effect on them, it is in the best interests of women and their families to close the gender wage gap and raise women's wages. On average women who work full time make 78
But she then says that “men are making more than women. Period,” (Wallace). This leaves the reader to believe that Wallace is right and the opposing argument is false. Sara Glynn’s and Jane Ferrell’s article “The gender Pay Gap: 2014; Earnings Differences by Race and Ethnicity” shows how race/ethnicity plays a part in the wage inequality. The article opens with a fact of Caucasian women earn only 81 percent of their male counterparts.
Gender equality: the pinnacle concept that American society is not-so desperately trying to achieve. Many Americans have convinced themselves that gender equality was remedied by the Nineteenth Amendment and the Second Feminist Movement, and have not considered the thousands of steps that are left on the journey. In recent years, a matter of public interest has been the gender wage gap, stating that women are earning significantly less money than men for doing an equivalent amount of work. Critics of the effort to “break the glass ceiling” claim that a pay gap does not exist, and that if it does, it is because women either do not work as hard, have to tend to their families, or hold lower paying jobs. However, the gender pay gap has been proven to exist in a variety of different forms,
Although women had attained a greater access of jobs and legal rights in the workplace, they still have a long way to go in terms of full equality. Women are still paid 80% of what men are paid, the gap even larger for women of color and elder women. In current times, women’s earning have stagnated, and pay equity isn’t expected until over 50 years from now. There needs to be further legislation to close the wage gap and give women the pay they deserve. The 2nd Wave of Feminism started by the women of the mid-twentieth century established new rights for working women, however, women are still struggling for equal pay and treatment in the workforce.
Writer Susan Pinker discusses how “unfair wage disparities for the same work still exist”. In our society today, Women get paid a few cents less to a man’s dollar. In a country that claims to be built on equality, the most crucial item in our society, money, being unequal is absurd. This inequality leads to an ideal that any women who does the job right won’t get paid the same amount as a man who does the same job. Leading to the notion that women are below men in the work place which plays into employee not taking female leadership
Annotated Bibliography Quast, L. (2015, November 22). The Gender Pay Gap Issue Is Fixable -- But May Require Bolder Actions To Overcome. Retrieved from Forbes.com: http://www.forbes.com/sites/lisaquast/2015/11/22/the-gender-pay-gap-issue-is-fixable-but-may-require-bolder-actions-to-overcome/2/ It is reported by the Economic Policy Institute that although women had made tremendous records entering into workforce and gain great successes in education, but their wage is 83% comparing to men. The world forum also released a report in 2015 that women now make as much as men earned a decade ago.
As a result, in 1960, women accounted for six percent of American doctors, three percent of lawyers, and less than one percent of engineers. Working women were paid salaries lower than men, so women made 61 cents for every $1 a man made. As seen in the graphs below, the salary rate for women and men differed much more than it does now. Now, it is 78 cents for every $1 a man made. Yet, such inequality in 1960, caused a feminist movement of the 1960s and '70s, women demanded equality, a prevention of denial of access to better jobs and salary inequity.
In a 2010, a survey from the Institute for Women 's Policy Research and the Rockefeller Survey of Economic Security stated that, “Half of workers reported they were either contractually forbidden or strongly discouraged from discussing their pay with their colleagues.” In 2014 Barack Obama an issued an order, to protect contractors and subcontractors from the retaliation for disclosing, discussing or comparing pay (Elejalde). Employers don’t seem to be able to hire as many women as men because they do not think women can handle the task that men would do. Just as men are human so are women we
Equal Pay for Equal Work Over many years, women have been gradually given more rights such as owning property and voting, but one thing that has remained the same is that the females are not getting paid as much as men. It is important to close this pay gap because women are getting about 80% of what men are getting paid for the same work. Studies are also showing that women are charged more or have to spend more money than men. Equal pay is becoming more important as the minorities increase in the nation because the economy will suffer if a huge percentage of its workforce is getting paid 50-60 cents on the dollar.
Miller, Kevin. “The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap.” AAUW: Empowering Women Since 1881,
