"When I started teaching elementary school after college, the public school district didn't hide the fact that it had two pay scales: one for men and one for women. Women have made incredible strides since then. But 40 years later, we're still debating equal pay for equal work." —Elizabeth Warren
Wage gaps exist all over the world . They only get worse and worse as time goes on. For example, women from Italy do not even make half of what a man makes. They only make 48 cents to every man’s dollar, which happens to be exceedingly worse than a woman in the United States. Israel also has a high wage gap for women, which is 1% lower than women from Italy. Burundi on the other hand is one of the poorest countries but it still leads in equality wages.
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We're still talking about reproductive rights for women, and we're still talking about getting equal pay for women. And that's just frustrating.-Corin Tucker Many women are discouraged from certain career paths because of the industry culture. Even if the women go against the grain the many employers foster a hostile environment and makes it more for one gender. Many of these careers are in the science, mathematics, technology and engineering and they have more of a male work space.(Woman's Work) Many of the woman quit their jobs because it is such a hostile work environment. There is a lot of job pressure in these and cause the women to almost overwork …show more content…
The woman are actually making the right choice because they may not see a pay raise. If they were to join into a male dominated field then the woman would have lower wages than if she was in a female dominated workplace.(Woman's Working) In many cases, if a woman wanted more money she should ask for more. Just like what any other employee does, they ask for a raise. Many women think that asking for a raise will make them lose their image. They think it makes them look pushy and ungrateful.(6 Excuses) There is nothing wrong for asking for more money because almost everyone does it and it shows that you think that you deserve more in the job.
I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle. -Cara
The reality of wage differences between men and women is that above all changes women continue to earn less than men. Countless arguments have promoted that wage inequality has changed and that everyone finally receives an equal amount of pay. “For women of color, the gap is largest of all: In 2006, black and Hispanic women earned 86 and 87 cents on the white man’s dollar, respectively,” (Mcswane 2). If a woman is lucky enough she will get an equal pay compared to a man doing the same job. But it is challenging for a woman of a minority background to achieve this. Not only are women paid less because of their sex, but also because of their race. There seems to be a mentality that because someone is a woman and a minority that they cannot do the same job as men or that women do not have the same education as the men, so employers do not have to pay them the same. “When the numbers are broken down by district, they 're pretty hard to ignore. Women in Texas are being utterly screwed financially, according to the data compiled by AAWU, with women earning anywhere from 66 percent of what men do in some districts, to the top end of things, which is about 89 percent,” (Leicht 4). The proof cannot be ignored. It i...
Additionally, we believed men deserved to have higher power by getting more money than women. After some research, we think it’s not fair that women make less than men who have the same education and the same job. In the long run, it can make it hard for women to support their families. We found out that the gender pay gap is a “complex issue with many causes”, which are often inter-related. It seems that the direct cause of this issue is discrimination. We also found out that inequality starts early; just one year out of college, college-educated women working full-time earned $32,000 compared to $42,000 for college-educated men working
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.
Even to this day there seems to be barriers which continue to slow down the opportunities for women. There seem to be many women who have occupied with teaching and nursing. Only 5% of the women's population seem to be interested in engineering and computing. The pay equity has dropped over the years causing men to earn more for the same amount of work and responsibility.
Nowadays, most women remain unaware that their employers underpay them. Women cannot argue for higher wages if they do not know they earn less than their male equivalents. Each employee sharing their salary will allow women to detect if they are earning less than their male colleagues with little difficulty. This will give women the tools needed to argue for a higher pay rate, and will help lower the wage gap. If a female worker goes to her boss with statistical evidence that she earns less than her male associates, the chances that her boss will award her a higher salary significantly increase. The law will make it almost impossible for companies to pay their male workers more than their female workers (Glynn para. 7). Furthermore, a law requiring employees to share their salaries will bring to light other forms of wage discrimination. The wage gap not only represents gender discrimination in the workplace, it also reflects the ongoing issue of racial discrimination. While white women do typically earn less than white men, they out earn the majority of female colored workers in America. The average African American female makes only 64 cents for the white man’s dollar. Additionally, Hispanic women receive only 54 cents to their white male coworker’s dollar (Hegewisch para. 9). If women of color become aware of how little they earn compared to
Further data shows that in Woman’s lifetime, she will earn 77% of what a man will earn. However, there are controllable factors, such as job position, race, job industry and other factors, which affect the Gender Pay Gap. For instance, the US Department of Labor found that when such factors were considered, the gap ...
To this day, women make 80 cents for every dollar earned by men, making a gender wage gap of 20 percent. According to Institute for Women’s Policy Research, “it will take 44 years –or until 2059– for women to finally reach pay parity”. This startling fact is shocking considering women will continue to make less than men for a long time unless something changes. That change could be full advocacy and petitioning for equal pay amongst all women, just like actress Patricia Arquette did. After winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar at the 2015 Academy Awards, Arquette ended her speech saying: “It’s our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women in the United States of America.” There is now a petition, Ratify The Equal Rights Amendment, that Patricia Arquette made on change.org and it needs 24,928 more people to reach the goal of 150,000 people. Creating more and more of these petitions and getting the message out into the world will produce more social justice in gender. But we can’t stop at just that; our society needs to be tenacious and determined to make sure that this issue is solved because they firmly believe that it is the right thing to do. By doing so, we will be taking a huge step forward in the right direction of becoming a just
Someone has to do the work of rising children and reward for such important work should not be marginalization, suffer a loss of status, and be at an increase risk of poverty. It makes economic sense to equalize pay, especially since there are more women than men heading households and in the labor force. These women become the economic decision makers, if they receive their fair pay, it’s highly likely that those dollars will be going directly back into the
The first reason for gender inequality is income disparities. The reason for income disparities is because men are getting more median wage than women. Women are often paid less for the same thing as men only because they are women. So the realization had once been deliberately chosen less high paying careers than men. Some of these jobs would be secretarial, clerical to explain why men in a particular company would make more money than a women in the same company. That may have been true once, but no longer that way in today’s economy. Now that more women are holding mid-level management jobs the career choices by men are ambitions to women’s pay disparities.
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
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).
In today’s society, Women perform similar jobs to men. Whether it’s blue or white collar jobs, women are always present and thriving for success balancing a life of business and family. In the job market, some are graduates of the best schools and have interned at the best firms, but are still not compensated as equally as men. Following the recent comments by the CEO of Microsoft concerning women asking for raises and how they should trust the system to install equality, the issue seems to be still present, and women’s work is not rewarded similarly to men’s.
Men are not supposed to be paid more for performing a particular job just because they are men. Women that decide to be different and work in the STEM field often leave because of limitations and extreme work pressure. Young women may be discouraged from certain career paths because of industry culture. If a woman works the same hours, performs the same tasks, and has to meet the same goals of her employer as a man does, she is entitled to equal pay. When women are paid less than men based on gender, it is a form of sex discrimination and it is illegal.