Summary Of Equal Pay Day By Dana Ford

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,

This problem is becoming more widespread than ever in the US if this keeps going it might spread all over the world. If that happens then women would be in a never ending hole. Since we have talked about the main problem let’s dive in to one of the biggest elements of the gender wage gap. One of the biggest elements of

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.

In 2009 President Obama signed into law the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (The Whitehouse, n.d.). The major provisions of this Act prohibits wage discrimination based on sex, race, or national origin among employees for work in equivalent jobs. According to National Committee on Pay Equity (n.d.), the Act defines “equivalent jobs are those who’s composite of skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions are equivalent in value, even if the jobs are dissimilar.” Today women earn roughly seventy-nine cents for every dollar earned by men. Atchinson, Belcher, and Thornsen (2013) state that women have entered the workforce not only because of increased educational opportunities but also because of the need for two paychecks in many families

A trending topic in the United States right now is the wage gap between gender and race. Over time, the gap has slowly closed, but much of that was due to more women working and the for the most part racism ending. Although the United States has made some excellent progress, is there unjust discrimination regarding wages between the two parties?

The working women in the United States are caught in a “gender gap” when it comes to their paychecks. Almost half of the entire labor force in American is women, but men are consistently paid more for the same work. President Obama addressed this gap as a family issue. The Supreme Court in 2007, heard the Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, brought by Lilly Ledbetter, a longtime employee of Goodyear Tire which was a win for women. The United States Senate, on the Republican side of the aisle, chose to fight the Paycheck Fairness Act.

Miller, Kevin. “The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap.” AAUW: Empowering Women Since 1881,

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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