Essay On The Gender Pay Gap

There are many elements that affect the salary gap between women and men, in the United States, the gender pay gap is measured as the ratio of female to male median yearly earnings among full-time, year-round (FTYR) workers. The gender pay gap has been attributed to differences in personal and workplace characteristics between women and men such as education, hours worked, occupation, etc. as well as direct and indirect discrimination in the labor market like gender stereotypes, customer and employer bias. Therefore, there were two major acts to eliminate gender discrimination within the workplace, The Equal Pay Act 1963, The Civil Rights Act 1964 to help close the gap. For that I will focus on The Equal Pay Act, Unequal pay for equal work,

This percentage shows the gap for unequal payment between women and men, which we still feel it today. Therefore, there is a need for more laws to protect women from discrimination at workplace. Women should pay equal to men because they are working together under the same conditions and responsibilities with equal skills, experience, and same hours to get the job done. It is so hard for women to prove they have been discriminated at the workplace at the court, they have to fill complain with federal equal employment opportunity commission or a state or local agency then the complain waits for action on average more than one year. As reported by Eisler “ approximately 150,000 discrimination complaints are filed annually, averaging about 450 daily, as of 1995 ” US Today ( Crampton, Hodge & Mishra, 1997 ). I think this numbers shows the greater and wider gap and the discrimination at the work place even though there is a law to protect people right and labors. This is complication and long period of time to fill complains, will affect the work place because it keep the gap greater rather than narrow it

Census Bureau released an analysis of the earnings of full time workers that reported that female physicians wages averaged 63 cents for every dollar earned by their male colleagues” (Weinberg DH. evidence from Census 2000). Women’s get paid less than men for the same jobs, which increase the gender gap at the workplace because men dominated the Medicine career. Men started paid salary higher than women already so women can’t catch up to equal with their colleagues men. Women facing many challenges as fare as the gender role because she’s a woman she can be a nurse but not a doctor for example. Moreover, women had lower rank to earn a higher status in Medicine career because of the discrimination against them and lack of