Does Patriarchy Still Exist

America was founded in 1776, but it wasn’t until more than 150 years later when women were even allowed to vote. Although we have come a long way since then, women in this country are still not equal to men. The wage gap is a commonly cited example of this, but it’s not what it seems to be. On first glance it seems that women are paid only 79 cents to a man’s dollar, and

It has been more than fifty years since the Equal Pay Act of 1963 was enacted, yet gender pay gap still exists today. According to National Women’s Law Center, women are paid only 80 cent for every dollar their male counterpart are paid. According to American Association of University Women, the total estimated loss of earnings for women compared to men over the course of 45 years are $700,000 for a high school graduate, $1.2 million for a college graduate, and $2 million for a professional school graduate. Although there are many factors that are responsible for gender pay gap, 40% of the pay gap is due to discrimination according to a report by the Joint Economic Committee Democratic Staff. By discriminating women, we, as a society, are telling

The most well-known limit placed upon women in a work setting is the wage gap, or the difference between a man’s salary and a woman’s salary. Authors dive into the subject of the current wage gap because of its presence in modern society, and one author who does speak out about the topic is Caroline Fredrickson. Fredrickson, president of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, writes in her book Under the Bus: How Working Women Are Being Run Over about how the gap between a man and woman’s salaries does exist in today’s progressive society. To argue her case, Fredrickson reveals, “In the past decade, women have not made any progress at all, with the wage gap overall remaining stubbornly at 77 percent…” (44). This gap of seventy seven percent implies that the majority of women are paid only seventy seven percent of what a man is paid in any given position.

The article “The Simple Truth About the Gender Wage Gap,” Kevin Miller describes this issue by providing evidence and statistics that men get paid more than women, despite similarities in education and ethnicity, emphasizing that the difference in gender causes the difference in pay. In fact, Miller declares, “The gap has narrowed since the 1970s, 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.” Therefore, since the early 1900’s, women advanced, further closing the pay gap between men and women. Women now have careers and become educated rather than become bound to their roles as a possession of their husbands and mothers to their children. Although the gap does not seem to completely close soon, the clear improvement of women in society suggests that women’s oppression decreased over time. However, the wage gap is not the only issue regarding women’s

The gender wage gap is where men get paid more than women for doing the same job. The gender wage gap has been around since 1960, when women began working full time jobs outside the home. When the wage gap between women and men first became apparent, the issue primarily centered around discrimination against women as the “weaker sex”, a social stereotype. Today the issue has become more complex, involving American cultural norms and politics, and concerns that there are glass ceilings within businesses for women. As a result, many people are indecisive when it comes to taking a position on the matter while others are adamantly entrenched in their mind set. The fact of the matter is that women’s wages should match men’s wages whenever performance of duty is equal. The issue is that there should be equal pay for equal work. Wages should be based on education, experience, exposure, and location in that career field.

The gendered wage gap has been a controversial topic that's been around since women started working at jobs for money in the United States during the 1900’s era. With a steadily increasing amount of women working at jobs, came steadily strong opinions about women’s work rights. Women had been given a lesser wage compared to their male counterparts and it outraged women. However, as women were treated more and more equal, their wages were treated more equally as well. Then came a stand still in this improving equality for women in the 21st century, as it has been debated that women are now treated equally, compared to men. This standstill has caused even further debate ranging from several things with most focusing on

Men get paid more than females do. Men get promotions more than females do. In the work place women get sexual harassed by their employee. Women who had less education also received less pay. Females have a harder time on trying a CEO position and are challenged when they do earn the position by the male workers. If a male who has graduated college work he will make over 91,000 dollars but if a women who has graduated college works in the same position she would make around 60,000 dollars. So, we don't get paid the same amount even if we do work just as hard as the men

Women’s pay has long been a subject in the economic community and to a further extent society. With arguments being presented from both sides, but one thing cannot be disputed there is a gender based wage gap between women and men. Why is there a gap and how can society in the United States change that? First we must examine women in the workforce. Then ask why it happens then figure out how we can put an end to the pay gap.

Although many people are now bringing up a pay gap between genders, there is something being over looked that proves there isn’t a pay gap, but something else. The Gender Income Gap is a supposed payment gap between men and women, stating that to every man’s dollar a woman only gets payed seventy cents. Statements like theses can grab people’s attention and get them to believe this without much proof of it actually existing. Most people get there information about the gap from surveys over all women and men average pay, this is not a good representation of the topic because it doesn’t go into any detail of actual jobs and difference of pay. There are many other factors that going into the pay gap that would make it into something else not necessarily a pay gap. There are several solutions for this problem most of them aren’t necessarily for equality but for the gain of one sex at the cost of the rights of another. The one I will be talking about later doesn’t need government intervention and doesn’t need for one sex to do more. This solution will come from “changes in the labor market, especially how jobs are structured and remunerated to enhance temporal flexibility.”1

On average, American women earn 80 cents to every dollar that an American man earns, and the gap for African American women is even larger. According to the textbook, there are four main reasons the pay gap persists those are: “Women are concentrated in lower paying jobs, Women enter the labor force at different and lower-paying levels than men, Women as a group have less education and experience than men; therefor, they are paid less, and women tend to work less over time (pg. 231, Stanely, Zinn, and Smith).” While this is factual information it does not explain why men and women with the same education, work history, skills, and previous experiences have a difference in pay. It is time we fix not only the pay

Women were able to eventually vote and have their voice be heard, women were able to work in high respectable jobs, women would eventually prosper and hold a high status without a man by their side. There has been so much achieved, but not at all has been solved. In the article, “America is Still a Patriarchy” the author Philip Cohen brings up a valid point and makes it clear that patriarchy has definitely weakened but it has not vanished. He ends his article by stating, “In that tit-for-tat, men leading the vast majority of the most powerful institutions, and that American families usually follow the male line, became just another couple of data points.” The author uses his conclusion as a defense and to raise awareness that although women have been able to achieve so much, males still hold dominance. Many men hold superior positions and there are many factors that influence that, the same factors that once degraded women years ago. The culture, one is raised in has lead to men holding authority a vast amount of the time. Perhaps one day feminists will achieve their goal and end patriarchy as a

First, women work just as hard as men. They receive more college and graduate degrees than men. Yet, women continue to earn less than men. If women are getting more degrees than they should get payed more because they are doing better than men in college. Yes, but men have always been getting payed more than women. That is true but, if we get rid of the gap, it would let workers talk to each other about their salaries and their jobs.

Girls are always told that we can be whatever we want to be. Whether that is a doctor, lawyer, teacher, engineer, or even a clown. That is true, but it is difficult for most women to achieve these goals because of a misogynistic society that prevents them from flourishing. Even though many people think that society has come a long way in making men and women equal, women are still treated as lesser people and make seventy nine cents to every dollar a man makes for doing the same jobs. I think that the reputation of women as second class citizens needs to change and the only way that can happen is for women to stop tearing each other down and stick together to demand equal rights for women in our backyard and all over the world.

All throughout our time on earth we have set standards on how the perfect person should look like. Even though we have changed what the image is over the years, it is still there. And the people who have had to put into these standards and judged the harshest is women. In our misogynistic world we have put women in a place where they must strive to be a certain way that appeases men in order to survive in the economy. In this comic you can see that the roman woman is offended at a size of clothing offered by her husband. She is offended because at the time it is more attractive to have a medium sized weight rather than heavy. It corresponds with today’s society because we still put women in a standard to be slim today and take offense when

With all the information available about pay on websites you would think there would be more progress but as of 2013 full time working women have earned only 78% of what men make. There are differences between states in the size of the pay gap but there is a difference no matter where women choose to work and live. The best state to live in wasn’t a state and is actually Washington D.C. where women earned 91% of what male counterparts were paid. The worst area to work would be Louisiana as women only bring in 66% of what men earn. The pay gap is evident in almost all occupations whether they were traditionally positions favoring women or not. Age plays a factor into the pay gap as well with women keeping a closer pace with men, at nearly 90% of the pay, up until they turn 35, and then dropping to between 75% and 80%. Women of color have a larger pay gap than their white counterparts with various differences and Hispanic women at the lowest end only bringing in 54% of a white man’s pay. Even education does not improve the pay gap as at all levels of education it still exists and is worse for women of color. This is an issue that needs to be addressed nationally and by the businesses themselves to make the playing field