AGREE Women's pay just doesn't make the cut anymore. This is argued by Robert Reich and Heather McCulloch in their Los Angeles Times feature, the women in this society are not only getting paid less than men, but some can't even have access to federal and state subsidies. “Women make less money than men, hurting their ability to save”, said Reich and McCulloch. Even though women make up about 80% of consumer purchases, they have limited access to the “fruits” of their labor. It is also a known fact that women make 32 cents on the dollar as opposed to men. Why is this happening in today's day and age? It's 2017 people, let's start making changes now! Reich and McCulloch say that, “ To get to women's equality, we have to tackle income and wealth inequality.” This means in order to get women and men equal, we must make women's and men's pay the same for equal …show more content…
Robert Reich and Heather McCulloch shows the Audience key points of women's inequality in there Los Angeles Times feature, “wealth, not just wages, is the way to measure women's equality”. Reich and McCulloch show key points on what is wrong and why it is wrong. But most importantly, they show ways to fix this issue. Ways like, “pushing for pay equity, affordable childcare, and paid family leave.” These are just some of the ways we all can help women's pay and benefits equal. Reich and McCulloch say to “make retirement benefits “portable”- tied to individuals, not employers.” This is so independent contractors, domestic workers and other “nontraditional” employees can build savings over a lifetime of work. Reich and McCulloch also argue that “these strategies support everyone; but they would particularly benefit low-income women and women of color, who are most affected by the women's wealth gap.” Saying that if people help to get rid of the wage gap, it won't only help women, it could possibly help everyone regardless of gender or
On the contrary, women still get paid less than men. According to CNN Money, “men still make more than women in most professions -- considerably more in some occupations than others, according to a new study by the job search site Glassdoor”. Although we like to comfort ourselves with the idea that we have gotten our rightfully earned rights, we had not been given bathroom breaks until 1998. Furthermore, employees are still afraid to have a voice in the workforce. Employers establish rules that let laborers know that they are inferior.
Creating the idea that if this gap continues to remain constant, or even worse grow, woman will never be able to reach equal pay. A podcast, How the Gender Pay Gap Works, presents us with a critical study done in 2011 in which shows a twenty five year old white woman compared to a twenty five year old white male. In this study both twenty five year olds contained the same qualifications and job title, yet the woman made a significant five thousand dollars less a year. Essentially this means that by the time she makes it to sixty five she will have lost out on four hundred thirty thousand dollars. This outstanding number shines light on the existing problem with women being mistreated and paid in the workforce. Additionally, a woman would have to work a year more to make the same amount of money that a man made the previous year (How the Gender Pay Gap
“Nationally, women earn 79 cents for every dollar men take home” wrote Nora Caley in a July/August ColoradoBiz Magazine entitled “Women and the Persisting Pay Gap”. This may not become equal until 2057. Now, when you think about those numbers, you might go, “there’s no way” or “how does that happen?” or even “is discrimination really the reason?” I’ll go more into this later, but discrimination of wages is not the leading factor. In “The Complex Causes of the Gender Pay Gap”, gender differences in occupation and industry choice alone, can explain up to 50% of the wage gap. Joelle Martinez the Executive Director at the Latino Leadership Institute of the University of Denver says that women only make up 4.4% of all CEOs of fortune 500 companies (Nora Caley). For those of you who don’t know, fortune 500 companies are the 500 largest companies in the US, and that list is updated annually. Right now the top three are Walmart, Exon Mobile, and Apple. Let’s think about that, 4.4% of CEOs are women. That means that 488/500 CEOs are men. The stat that women make 78 cents t every male dollar is accounting for every job, so Instead of putting all jobs in the
When women are actually given the same jobs as men, they may be paid the same but typically, they are not able to reach the higher positions in the company that men do. Even with their 77 cents to a man’s dollar, “women still tend to bear a larger responsibility for child care and other household matters within families” (Mazorelle). Women are not given the opportunity to earn as much as men, and they still have to take on a majority of the responsibilities of the household.... ... middle of paper ... ...
Fay Faraday, a Toronto human right lawyer argued, “The pay gap fosters an environment in which women have less economic security and less economic power”. It is proven women are paid less than the same job performed by others. This creates women to lose their self esteem and self confidence. With unequal pay, especially for women, this causes less buying power and less savings for the future. Furthermore, “The push for increasing women’s wages started in the 1960s with the Equal Pay Act, individual lawsuits and action by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The message, then and now, is so powerful that when people hear it they begin to take action. For example, the California Fair Pay Act, authored by state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, passed with bipartisan support and gives California women the strongest fair pay protection in the nation” (Sure, Equal Pay Day is about what’s in women’s paychecks. It’s also about fairness., The Washington Post). Women’s rights have been fought in the past but now they need to be reinforced and acted upon. Women have been fighting for many years, it is now time those rights be listened to and peace can finally be restored. The Equal Pay Act was not only fought for equal paychecks but for fair pay for similar work. Unequal pay will never be solved without understanding the importance of
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.
In 2015, female full-time workers earned eighty cents for every dollar earned by men. Gender wage inequality dates all the way back to World War II, when more and more women entered the labor force. “Everything You Need to Know about the Equal Pay Act” is an article discussing the history of gender wage discrimination in America during World War II. Social Justice: Opposing Viewpoints is a book that presents differing views from observers on issues of economic and social justice in the United States, focusing on the treatment of minorities and women. The stakeholders in the chapter I read called, Women Earn Less Than Men Due to Gender Discrimination, is Joel Wendland, a professor of liberal studies at Grand Valley State University.
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
Another large sexist factor in the workforce, is that women get paid less than men do for the same exact job. “Women get paid 77 cents on the dollar for every dollar a man makes, according to a recent study from the Institute for Women's Policy Research. That's a difference of more than $10,000 per year on average,”(Berman). Why is this? Some people believe that it is because women gravitate towards low...
For many years in United States, equal salary pay for women has been a major issue that women have been fighting for decades. This began back in World War II, when the National Labor Board urged equalize the salary rates for women with the same rates that males were getting of the same professions. (Rowen) Although, traditionally most women do not work to provide for there family and there are not so many independent women during World War II. After World War II more women lost their jobs to veterans returning to the workforce. Women in the workforce after the war have been discriminated ever since. The idea of women as weak and cannot perform there jobs
In addition, women are paid less than men for the same type of work. According to Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg mentions that women were paid fifty-nine cents for every dollar men were paid in 1996, but women protested to raise the compensation to seventy-seven cents (6). This means that even though a woman and a man perform the same work such as an engineer does, both do the same assignments and have the same responsibilities in the technology place, men are paid twenty three cents more than women. Moreover, women suffer from “gender discount” which means women have to pay for being part of the workplace or society ...
In the workplace, women do not receive the same benefits that men do. Some women do the same job, for the same amount of hours, and still do not receive the same pay for their work. Is there a specific reason behind this? No, it is just one of the many inequalities that goes on on the job. As pointed out in the essay by Susan Faludi, Blame it on Feminism, women earn less. The average women’s paycheck is twenty percent less than their male counterparts. Men with only high school education’s make more than some women who have graduated college. Most women are still working the traditional “female” jobs: secretaries, teachers, and nurses for example. Construction work, engineering, and doctor’s, are considered “out of our reach” and men’s jobs. Women are very capable of doing these jobs, but most times when applying for a “man’s job” are not taken seriously. American women are more likely not to receive health insurance and twice as likely not to draw pension then American men. They face the biggest gender-biased pay gap in the world.
From the beginning of history and to this day women still get paid less than the average man, but why? Whoever said that women are incapable of good work performance? Whoever said that women do not have the same responsibilities to maintain? What really makes a women’s work inferior to men? The answer is nothing. Today, women are depended on just as much as men, and are capable of performing at their level. However, a full-time working woman earns only seventy-seven cents for every dollar a man makes. These days women make up half the workplace in our society; they work just as hard and for the same reasons. Women deserve to be paid at an equal rate as men because they are relied on to uphold the same responsibilities and are just as qualified to perform at a man’s level.
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).
Are you aware that in 2015, women who were working full time in the United States were only paid 80 percent of what men were paid, at a 20 percent gap? This number is only up a measly one percentage from 2014, and the change isn’t of any major significance. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the earnings ratio hasn’t had significant annual change since 2007. This gender wage gap has only narrowed since the 1970s and due largely to women’s progress in education and workforce participation and to men’s wages rising at a slower rate. Still, the pay gap does not appear likely to go away on its own. At the rate of change between 1960 and 2015, women are expected to reach pay equity with men in 2059. But even that slow progress has stalled in recent years. These