Why Are Women Paid Less Than Men?

Throughout history, discrimination in all forms has been a conflict; whether it is religion, beliefs, gender or anything that makes a person different from the other. One of the biggest discrimination is occurring at the workplace. Women, who are as equal trained and educated and with the same experience as men are receiving less money for the same job and amount of hours. The gender wage gap is the difference between male and females income, that often makes women less than men in the workplace. In 1963, The Equal Pay Act was endorsed, allowing men and women who work in the same job and the same amount of hours get paid equally. In other words, making gender inequality in the workplace illegal. In 1950s, women just earned around 60 cents

It is because of discrimination or it is just bosses wants to pay more to men than even even if they are doing the same job and working the same amount of hours? According to an Article entitled Why Are Women Paid Less? by Jordan Weissmann, Weissmann spoke with Francine Blau, an award winning labor economist at Cornell who has published widely on gender inequality and the workplace. Francine Blau states that women only make 72 percent of what their male counterparts make(1). Along with his friend Professor Lawrence Kath, Francine create an study where they found that women are making 20 percent less per hour than a men overall, which according to Francine this could reflect discrimination. However it could also reflects gender differences in work experience or difference in industries and

According to an excerpt titled Women’s Brains by Stephen Jay Gould’, there has been a misconception of women intelligences. Throughout his paper he gave several example on how professor of clinical surgery such as Paul Broca makes conclusion about women intelligences. According to Broca, “Women, like it or not, had smaller brains than men and, therefore, could not equal them in intelligence” (1). Another reference than the author use was a student from Broca’s school in Paris, Le Bon. Le bon argues that “women’s brains are more similar to a gorilla’s than a man’s” (2). However, Gould’ did not agree with Brocan and Le Bon, Gould’ argument focuses on cranial size, brain dimensions and late 1800’s perspectives. Taking the time to write about women was just an example to show the absurdity of Broca and Le bon and therefore he did not the need to tell people with his essay that women are more intelligent than men. In his essay he also mentioned Maria Montessori, a professor of Anthropology at the University of Rome. Montessori argues that women after a proper correction of the data Broca and Le Bon present, “ women had slightly larger brains than men. Women, she concluded, were intellectually superior, but men had