The Gender-Based Pay Gap: Should Women Get Paid?

Let’s say this, you have two people who work the same job, who put in the same amount of hours, with the same amount of effort, and let’s say that one person is a man and the other is a women. Now here poses the question, who gets paid more? That should be easy right? They both get the same amount of money because they both have the same occupation put the same amount of hours and effort. But that is not the right answer, the man would get paid more. 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

The fact that women who work full time make 77 percent of what men do is discrimination in its own right when Bryce Covert writes an article on discrimination on working women when he states “A more recent study by economists Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn found that while experience, occupation, and industry explain much of the gap, there is still more than 40 percent of it that remains unexplained, the part that could be chalked up to discrimination” (). Covert talks about women being discriminated when he states, “We can also look to the real world to see instances where it’s clear that outright discrimination is still at play… where female employees across the and with substantial experience say they were still paid less than less qualified men”(). This is also seen when an PEWResearch Center article discusses the gender gapan how “women are about twice as likely as men to say they had been discriminated against at work because of their gender (18% vs.