Equal Pay System Pros And Cons

At its conception, the United Stated Constitution was considered the most well developed progressive document ever written, because of its flexibility. The Constitution’s framers realized that no document could cover all of the changes that would take place to ensure its longevity. Constitutional convention every twenty years was proposed by Jefferson to update the Constitution. Since its ratification in 1789, only 27 proposed amendments have made it through the difficult process, although there has been close to 10,000 amendments proposed in Congress, and only a fraction of a percentage of those receive enough support to actually go through the constitutional ratification process. The success rate of an amendment to become part of the Constitution is less than 1%. At the time of its ratification, the population of the United States was around 4 million and has grown to exceed 321 million people. Actually, since 1791 including the Bill of Rights the US Constitution has only changed 16 times. If you consider, the changes in infrastructure, populations and technology that have occurred in the United States over the past

200 plus years, this is an amazing fact.
Article V of the Constitution outlines the numerous steps that must be taken in order for to pass an amendment. This article provides for two methods for the proposal and two methods for the ratification of an amendment. An amendment may be proposed by a two-thirds vote of the House of Representatives and the Senate or although never use, a national convention called by Congress at the request of 2/3 of the state legislatures. The amendment may then be ratified by 3/4 of the state legislatures (38 states) or special conventions called in 3/4 of the states. The only amendment to be adopted in this way was the 21st amendment, which over turn prohibition. Only Congress has the power to determine the method of ratification.

I am proposing the following two amendments to the United States Constitution, in an attempt to guide us into the future and to assist today’s society.
If I could proposed the 28th and 29th Amendments to the United States Constitution I would proposed the following:
Amendment XXVIII - “Hereby establishes……Equal Pay for Women”
That the following article is proposed to Congress to be adopted as a proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:
Congress shall require that equal wages are paid to employees performing equal work, without regard to age, ethnicity or gender.
Congress shall require that employers to show the differences in wages are based on factors other than sex.
Congress shall strengthen penalties for violations of this act, and prohibit retaliation against employees inquire about wage practices and disclosure of wages
Congress shall require that equal wages are paid to persons working in similar conditions.
“Equal pay is a family issue.” Discrimination in pay is a persistent problem that plagues American families where the breadwinner is a woman.

Nearly half of the labor force and breadwinners are women. More women are working in career fields and positions traditionally held by men. When women are not paid fairly, not only do they suffer, but so do their families. According to current research, “Despite passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which requires that men and women in the same work place be given equal pay for equal work, the "gender gap" in pay persists. Full-time women workers’ earnings are only about 77 percent of their male counterparts’ earnings. The pay gap is even greater for African-American and Latina women, with African-American women earning 64 cents and Latina women earning 56 cents for every dollar earned by a Caucasian

man.”
Amendment XXVIV - “Hereby establishes……To Ensure the Reproductive Rights of Women.”
That the following article is proposed to Congress to be adopted as a proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:
The right of any women in the United States to control their reproduction shall not be removed or prevented by the United States or any of it territories.
Congress shall make no law denying or preventing the reproductive rights of any women in any state or US territory.
“The freedom of females to decide the disposition of their reproductive organs and biological processes within and without their bodies shall be supreme and inviolable, and no one may interfere with that freedom for any reason.”
Women should have the right to decide if and when they want to have a child or children. The theory of life starts at conception does not agree with the rules of nature. In nature only the strong survive. A fetus that cannot survive outside of a woman’s body should not have more rights than the woman who is carrying it, especially in cases of rape and incest. A woman’s right to her reproductive and biological organs should not be denied to accommodate another person’s wishes or beliefs.