The Role Of Poverty In The United States

So, you may have heard that women earn 79 cents for every dollar that a male makes. But, what exactly does that mean? Well, gender pay gap is defined as the variation in pay between men and women. Women usually are paid less to do the same work. Gender pay gap is a hardship that women of all ethnicities encounter in the workplace.

Besides white women being paid less than men, more culturally diverse people are being paid even less than them. A USA today article on the gap says “The numbers were even worse for women of color, with black women earning 68% of what was paid to white men and Hispanic women’s pay amounting to just 62% of their white male peers, according to the IWPR.” click here for link. That is crazy considering segregation has ended, at least so we thought. Not only culturally diverse women, but all women are being paid less than men. As of 2015 women are only making between $0.76 and $0.80 for every dollar men are making.

Gisel Mendoza March 4, 2018 Mr. Miller AP English The Outcome of Degrading a Woman Historically, women have been seen as less valuable to society. Their roles were to have children and serve their husband. Many women are often victims suffering from physical abuse and political injustices. Society portrays them as submissive and silenced. Even though now women are able to join the workforce, they are still getting paid less than men.

(Lee 154). Stereotypes are a major conflict in today's society also. Today the majority of women are paid less than men. With the exception of Calpurnia, and Miss Caroline the women in To Kill a Mockingbird do not get paid. All women who work today are paid, but not as much as men.

If you are poor, it is quite normal that you will not achieve a good education. Of course there are many poor people who will succeed, but most of the poor will remain uneducated. The biggest reason behind this is the class divide. In the US, poor people are often despised by people who are not poor, which causes it harder for poor people to get into higher education. This may explain that those who are below the poverty-line are often trapped

In the article The gender pay gap, woman still earn lot less than men, despite decades of equalpay law they say that in rich and middle-income countries, the median wage of a woman working full time is 85 % that of a man. The reason? There are the stereotypes which are the answear again . A woman should not be police officers , a woman should be nurse, which has both lower status and pay. Why?

In reality, many people in the sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia do live with less than a dollar per day. Timothy Besley and Robin Burgess in their article “Halving global poverty” illustrated the concept of dollar a day and defined it as poverty line chosen to be representative of domestic poverty lines found in low-income countries. (Besley, Burgess, 2003). Besley and Burgess argued that such a measure could be applied on middle income countries only, because applying it on rich countries could bias the real

In poor countries men own 90 percent of the land, which is a far greater gender disparity in wealth than found in high-income nations. Therefore, 70 percent of the 1.4 billion people living near absolute poverty are women. This confirms even in a working society that women are not getting treated and are rewarded less for their effort. In high- income countries such as Canada and Sweden, women don’t get equal recognition for the things they do. In low-income nations

Moreover, of those women participating in the work force, most work in occupations that do not offer much financial security; women make up 77% or Japan’s part-time and temporary workforce, and only 11% of senior positions and 1% of executive committee memberships in Japanese companies are held by women. There has been a so-called “bamboo ceiling” limiting the careers of women in Japan, coined so due to the “thick, hard, and not even transparent” constraint on the advancement of a woman’s professional development. Womenomics is part of Abe’s proposed “Abenomics” policies to boost Japan’s economy. With womenomics, Abe hopes to fill 30% of the leadership positions across Japanese society with women by 2020, lift the female labor participation rate, raise the percentage of women returning to work after their first child, boost the supply of childcare facilities with the aim of eliminating children on daycare

This issue of women's rights in the workplace has gotten more and more recognized as woman start to speak up. In many countries around the world, women tend to make less than men and are usually offered these stereotypical jobs as a secretary, maid, nanny, nurse, teacher, librarian etc because this is what men think women are cable of. Although not every woman has these jobs some do have the great chance to have a job in the workplace that's higher in payment that those jobs offer. But men do still make more money than women. “In many industries, female workers are systematically denied their rights to regular pay and regular working hours; equal pay for equal work; permanent contracts; safe and non-hazardous work environments; and freedom of association” ( IRLF).