Women Paid Less Than Men Summary

Chaz Sapp
Dr. Gareth Euridge
ENC1102
22 September, 2017

Women Paid Less than Men
Summary:
The wealth disparity between the rich and poor is clear, but the earning disparity between men and women is a mystery. The driving factors that will make a person income increase such as education and skill set, is obsolete when it comes to examining the reason for the inequality of pay for women across the board. The first half of the article “Women Paid Less than Men”, compares different ethnic group genders with the opposite sex. Per the article, Black men now earn 72 percent as much as white men (up 16 percentage points since the mid-1950's) but black women earn 92 percent as much as white women. Hispanic men make 71 percent of what their white counterparts

This type of program at an early stage is the one the reason that discrimination exist towards women and their pay. These are the building blocks that causes young men that eventually turn into adults to have an ego. Thus, men put more energy into their careers than females. The net result is a difference in work intensity that leads to that 40 percent gap in earnings (Thurow). This example may give some incite to as why men work more than women but it does not justify the reasoning of the disparity in pay for women. When men show prejudice against women they run into a situation. To discriminate against women is to discriminate against your own love one and to lower your own family wealth. To stop women from working is to put men to work more. This doesn’t make sense for men to do this, but since it was programmed into our heads as youths, there is so escaping it. When whites discriminate against blacks they can at least think that they are raising their own incomes. When men discriminate against women they must know that they are lowering their own family income and increasing their own work effort

It is the decade when lawyers become partners in the good firms, when business managers make it onto the "fast track," when academics get tenure at good universities, and when blue collar workers find the job opportunities that will lead to training opportunities and the skills that will generate high earnings. If there is any one decade when it pays to work hard and to be consistently in the labor force it is the decade between 25 and 35. For those who succeed, earnings will rise rapidly. For those who fail, earnings will remain flat for the rest of their lives. But the decade between 25 and 35 is precisely the decade when women are most apt to leave the labor force or become part-time workers to have children. When they do, the current system of promotion and skill acquisition will extract an enormous lifetime price. The author was examining the period in which men are more likely to out earn their counterparts because of society norms. This example is useful to understand why men will discriminate against women because they are following what society and history is telling them to do: It is ok to provide and out earn your female