Equal Pay Act (EPA) Of 1963

Equality Is Coming

Until the Equal Pay Act (EPA) of 1963, many women were paid less for doing the same work as men. This division of wages often caused hardships and bitterness forcing women to work more hours on a weekly basis in order to make the same amount of money as their male counterparts. In order to understand the impact of the Equal Pay Act, you must first understand its purpose, the benefits, and also consider the negative effects.

The act caused most of the women to get paid the same amount of money as men did depending on how much the women worked and if they worked the same amount as the men. The act caused the pay gaps between men and women to drop majorly. The EPA of 1963 states that gender difference should not cause

The pay gap is even in Washington, D.C., there is only a ten percent gap ,but the Equal Pay Act should be enforced by the president. On average, women get paid 21 percent less than a male a year. The number may not sound big, but there is a $10,762 gap between men and women. The lowest place in the United States is Louisiana, where women are paid 35% less than the men. The women get paid $16,796 less than the men. This is a huge problem because the EPA is not working fast enough. Even having the same education and same working hours, the women get paid less by higher percentages. The amount of money that women get with the same education, skills as men, the men still get paid more than the women that are working the same job. With an advanced education men get a way higher pay than women with the same set of the skills. Women with the same education skills and learning processes get paid on average $433 less than a man in a week. With the need of women needed to be equalized, the institute for women's policy research believe that women will full have no pay gap between the men and women in 2059 or in 43

This was the time when women started working while World War II was going on. Before World War II women only made up 27% of the workforce. Then when World War II had come the women started to work outside of the house. The percent of women workers rose from 24% to 37% ,which is 11% which was a lot for that time period. All of the women were underpaid and this would worry the men who were not serving, because they feared they would get laid off or take a cut in their hourly pay. Then the men would not have enough money to support their families. While that was happening, equal pay for women would mean some of the businesses would only hire men and the businesses that hired women would have a different pay rate than what the men had. They did this by re-classifying and paying newspapers to put in different ads with the same job description, but different pay scales for each of the genders applying for the job