The pay gap between men and women have been a problem for generations. During World War 2, women took jobs in the war industries, and in 1942, the National War Labor Board urged the employers to make adjustments to make the salary and wage of women’s equal to those of the men’s. Today, women are almost half of the workforce, and in four out ten families, are becoming the main providers of their families. In sports, the pay gap is also different. Men’s athletes have been paid more than women’s athletes for years. The United States women’s national soccer team, including Carli Lloyd, Becky Sauerbrunn, Hope Solo, Megan Rapinoe, and Alex Morgan, have filed a wage discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the U.S. Soccer …show more content…
The labor force holds about 47 percent of women, and they hold about 49.3 percent of jobs. Women are more likely to hold two or more jobs but they are also less likely to be self-employed. The pay gap goes further than just the wages, it’s even greater when we look at the worker’s full compensation packages. A compensation package includes not just wages, but also flexible work hours, employer-sponsored health and retirement benefits, training opportunities, and sick leave. Women are less likely to have an offer from their employer for health insurance, but they are also less likely to have retirement savings plan. There are 52 percent of men, and only about 44 percent of women have access to paid leave. People today wonder why women get paid less than men do. Some say it has to do with women’s choices, or discrimination, while some people say it has to do with the difference is men and women’s education and experience. During the time of the 1960’s and 1970’s, it wa more likely men would graduate from college than women. However, over the recent years, women have earned a mass of undergraduate and graduate degrees. After women get married or have children, they would often leave the workforce to take care of the children. Even though, today, women are more likely to temporarily leave the labor force, they are more likely to work throughout their …show more content…
Women make 77 cents to a dollar that men earn. According to figure 1, African American women cents while latina women only make 57 cents. When women have children, her total career earnings and also her experience increases by nine percent, but men continue to experience the pay increase when they have children. Once women have children, most leave the workforce to take care of their child, but however not all women leave. Women do have access to paid maternity leave, but after a year they would work more and have higher earnings. The IWPR, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, tracks the gender wage gap over time in a series of fact sheets that get updated twice a year. In sports, Billie Jean King, a famous women’s tennis player, has been in a battle for years to help women’s s athletes have equal pay. In 1973, King played Bobby Riggs to get equal pay towards tennis athletes everywhere. King wants to make it her case as she helps the women’s soccer team get equal pay. In a telephone interview King states, “And I am a big believer, when there’s a crisis, there’s opportunity. It’s a moment to have historic transformation at FIFA, and I will make my case.”(King). King had made so many cases when it comes to women’s rights, such as the creation of the Women’s Sports Foundation, and also the continuous fight for the enactment of Title IX, Title IX is a United
Though any pay disparity between women and men is a pressing issue, the “wage gap” is much more complicated than people believe because of misleading statistics, unaccounted for variables, and the different social and economic choices of men and women. The common idea that women make 77 cents on every dollar men make in the workplace is very misleading. It is true, however, this statistic ignores any factors that justify different pay. The wage gap is just the difference
Women have progressed from house wives to business women over the past hundred years. In 1948, 28.6% of the people in the work force were women. In 2015, this percentage has increased to 46.8% (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2015). Progression is visible and very possible, but it seems that our chances for equal pay are very improbable. From a person perspective, I had the opportunity to focus on basketball, let my efforts and love for the sport pay for college, and continue on playing in the WNBA. With in-depth research, I quickly reconsidered. Phoenix Mercury’s Diana Taurasi made a maximum salary of $107,800 one season after winning the championship. The NBA team, Phoenix Suns, picked up Dionte Christmas who only played for 198 minutes during the whole season and he obtained the minimum payment of $490,800 just for being a bench warmer (Berri, 2015). It is bad enough that he made $300,000 more than Taurasi, but it is more inconceivable that an NBA starter will receive $14.7 million a
According to the Women 's Sports Foundation, they claim that paying men more for the same sport gives women in the sport less incentive to push themselves and discourages future female participation in the sport. Which is true, why would women want to play the same sport as men and get paid less money. A good example where women get paid much less money for the same sport is a WNBA. Women’s Sports Foundation says that players from the WNBA in the 2015 season, the minimum salary was $38,913, the maximum salary was $109,500, and the team salary cap in 2012 was $878,000. For NBA players in the 2015-2016 season, the minimum salary is $525,093, the maximum salary is $16.407 million, and the team salary cap is an all-time high of $70 million. David Berri’s article on, “Basketball’s gender wage is even worse than you think,” he talks about that in 2013-14, the Phoenix Suns employed Dionte Christmas for 198 minutes. For those minutes–the only minutes Christmas has ever played in the National Basketball Association–he was paid the league minimum of $490,180. However, Diana Taurasi made the All-Women 's National Basketball Association First Team in 2014 and helped the Phoenix Mercury win the league 's championship. That season, she was paid the WNBA maximum salary of $107,500. This is huge difference between the two
This social justice issue is important in the community because it impacts women by disrespecting them, it makes women feel like they are not valued. Our central question is does pay equal respect? If pay equals respect then women are definitely not being respected. Society believes that men have that higher power so they should get paid more, this is a . It impairs the ability of women and families to buy homes and pay for college education, it limits their total lifetime earnings, savings, and benefits, which makes women much more vulnerable to poverty in retirement.This issue expands even into nonprofits as of nonprofits with budgets
In “2014 and 2015… zero women were head coaches of Division 1 men… teams”(Price E.1). This shows that they thought that women could not be head coaches for men or thought they might be a distraction to them. In “2015, a women earn 80 cents” for every dollar a man earned (Zhai). Men are still give women lower pay. Female workers with the same college degree as men “earn an average hourly wage of $16.58” and the men earn $20.94 (Zhai). Women are still getting lower pay although they have the same degree. The”Women's Policy Research in september[of 2016] found that if [this] continue, women will not receive equal pay until 2059”(Zhai). This shows that women has a long way to go before they earn equal pay. It is clear that for women that they have a long way to go before the glass ceiling in Jobs is shattered for
Women have faced gender wage discrimination for decades. The gender pay gap is the difference between what a male and a female earns. It happens when a man and a woman standing next to each other doing the same job for the same number of hours get paid different salaries. On average, full-time working- women earn just “77 cents for every dollar a man earn.” When you compare a woman and a man doing the same job, “the pay gap narrows to 81 percent (81%)” (Rosin). Fifty-one years ago, in order to stop the gender gap discrimination, Congress enacted the Equal Pay Act of 1963. The act states that all women should receive “equal pay for equal work”. Unfortunately, even in 2014 the gender pay gap persists and even at the highest echelons of the corporate; therefore, the equal pay act is a failure.
Throughout the history of the world, discrimination in all forms has been a constant struggle, whether it is race, gender, religion, appearance or anything else that makes one person different from another, it is happening every day. One significant discrimination problem that is affecting many women takes place in the work place. As of recently the gender wage gap has become a major topic for discussion. The gender wage gap is the average difference between men and women aggregated hourly earnings. Women who are equally trained and educated, and with the same experience are getting paid way less than men. In 2015, female full time workers earned eighty cents for every dollar earned by men.
When President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act of 1963 into law, he hoped that it would allow working women to finally earn the same amount of money as men; however, more than half a century later, men continue to out earn women in almost every field of work (Lipman para. 4). Male dominated fields tend to pay more than female dominated fields at similar skill levels. In 2012, women earned an average of $691 per week while men earned an average of $854 per week. Furthermore, the majority of women remain unaware that they are earning less than their male colleagues (Hegewisch para. 1). The gender wage gap not only harms a woman’s ability to provide for herself, it also harms many children and families. Women are now the primary caregivers
Gender Pay Gap also referred to as Gender wage gap, gender income difference or male-female income difference refers to the difference between the earning of men and women (Victoria, 2006). The European Union defines the Gender Pay gap as the difference between men and women’s hourly earnings (OECD, 2012). The difference may be measured on hourly, weekly, monthly, or yearly earning. The difference is expressed as a percentage of the men’s earning. However, the difference varies from one industry to another, from one country to another and from one age group to another. On average, men earn higher than women do across different sectors and nations.
Women are more than half the work force and are graduating at higher rates then men and continue to earn considerably less then men. There are several contributing factors to the gender wage gap. Women experience gender discrimination in the work force even though it’s been illegal since the Equal Pay Act in 1963. One of the challenges for women is uncovering discrimination. There is a lack of transparency in earnings because employees are either contractually prohibited or it’s strongly discouraged from being discussed. Discrimination also occurs in the restricting of women’s access to jobs with the highest commission payments, or access to lucrative clients.
The difference in pay between these two teams demonstrates how the pay gap between male and female athletes is so substantial that it is like comparing a mountain to a molehill. It leads many to think, if female athletes put in the same amount of training, effort, and dedication as their male counterparts, why should they receive less compensation? Men and women both work just as hard in their sports, so the pay should reflect that. Not only do women work as hard as males on the field, but they also have an enormous impact off of
The issue is that male athletes are getting paid a higher amount of money than female athletes. Female sport has developed significantly for 50 years. Women now play a wider range of sports and have access to playing at a professional level. Even though the sporting world is still hugely male dominated. Women and men rarely play each other, and women are paid less when compared to men who play the same form of professional sport.
It is very important to be concerned about the issue because it is constantly increasing throughout the United States. It upsets me that women are paid less than men because women have the same ability and work ethic as men do, but they are looked at differently. According to AAUW, women make 77 percent of what men make. This rate hasn’t changed since 2002 (Hill, 2013). Statistics show that women will never make as much as men due to the thought of never being comparable to men (Williams, 2013).
Today in the United States, men make more than women in various sectors, including education and other trades favoring women workers. The gap gets bigger when comparing the wages earned by men to those of women in jobs favoring men workers such as construction or other physically demanding jobs. Women are less likely to work those jobs, therefor; men have the advantage of having more experience and get paid better. In addition, employers would rather hire a man instead of a woman because they believe that a man will be able to sustain the difficulty of the job and work longer hours which crate a disadvantage for women because they are unable to gain experience and become skilled in that certain field. Gender pay gap based on this information is explained as the result of the discrimination of employers toward the feminine sex in terms of pay, which discourage them to work certain jobs leading to create a bigger gap due to the lack of
The B.A.T clinical team met Evan’s mother, her partner, and his brothers, on November 9th, 2016, at their home. On this date the clinical team conducted an indirect functional assessment, which consisted of a parent interview and a review of ABA services in relation to Evan. The clinical team gathered information regarding Evan’s history (as outlined in the section above) and inquired about the challenges they encounter, including all behaviors that are of concern. Evan was not present during the visit.