Equal Pay Persuasive Speech

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As your constituent, I am writing today to urge you to support Equal Pay for women that provides hard-working women get the same wage as men. Even today in the United States women that do the same thing as men and they do not receive equal pay for equal work in the same kind of workplace. It should pay equal to the employees should not depend on which gender. It should depend on how well they work on the job. Women should have what they should earn. It is imperative that Congress works to fix the Equal Pay for women.
Among the hundreds of full-time jobs tracked by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, women earn more than men in only two. “On average in 2014, Texas women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median weekly earnings of $671 or 81.8 percent of the $820 median weekly earnings of …show more content…

To find out which jobs feature the biggest gender wage gaps, I compared the median weekly earnings of men and women working full time in 2014 in the same job titles. I found out that sales appear to be one of the worst areas for women. “In sales and related occupations, women make on average 62.2% of what men earn in those same positions”. According to data from the BLS. Legal, management, production, and business and financial operations occupations also tend to pay women far less than men. There is a huge gender wage gap between men and women on the sales field. That means if a sales woman sells a product to a customer, she would get less pay and commission than a sales man. It is very unfair to sales women that do the same thing as men and they do not receive equal pay for equal work in the same kind of workplace. The wage gap is a family issue, not only for women, and can

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