Wage Gap Dbq Essay

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• (Source #1) After the civil war and the 13-15 amendment were passed women believed their suffrage would become more relevant, but it didn’t.
• (Source #1) The women’s movement stayed in a start-stop cycle due to internal conflicts in the movement.
• (Source #1) “Adequate attention to the different experiences of ethnic minorities, rural and western women, and lesbians (among others) becomes problematic within the terse format of Women's Rights.”
• (Source #2) Wage gap depends upon gender along with race. The wage ratio is used to show the difference between the amount men make compared to women.
• (Source #2) ”The first surveys of earnings and individual characteristics in the late nineteenth century indicate that men were paid more than women upon hiring but that the wage gap closed over time. Analysis of these data suggests that the …show more content…

As more women quit expectations of their work ethic were lowered as well.
• (Source #2) Early 90’s the wage gap became as close to 1% difference between men and women. Although, women of color still earned less than white women.
• (Source #2) Three main factors that are a part of wage gap besides race or gender are, skills, education, and experience.
• (Source #3) This year’s election can highly affect the wage gap, and woman equality depending on whom gets elected.
• (Source #3) ”At the nation's founding, women made an argument for female citizenship based on their role as mothers: in a republic, the civic duty of women is to raise sons who will be virtuous citizens.”
• (Source #3) Women’s rights movement started in 1848 in New York.
• (Source #5) “Women's studies is the study of women and gender in every field. Its basic premise is that traditional education is based on a study of men—usually upper-class, Caucasian, educated men—while other groups of men and all different groups of women are erroneously subsumed under the category

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