legislation that would guarantee equal pay to both men and women working under the same employer. However, to this present day, women still only make, on average, 77 cents to every dollar that a male earns. This paper focuses on some of the underlying problems as to why there is still such a large gender pay discrimination over half a century later. More specifically, some of the policies maybe could be put in place and the positive impact(s) each policy could have on women in the work place. Lastly, we
grow and an income increase was needed, as a result women began working alongside men in factories, but for much smaller pay. As the world started to modernize, social norms related to women started to change. Women were granted the right to vote through the nineteenth amendment and were provided access to health care and birth control. Women should be seen as equal to men and given equal opportunities. Equal pay for women and even minority groups should be expected, and should
Equal Pay for Women “Imagine you 're a little girl. You 're growing up. You practice as hard as you can, with girls, with boys. You have a dream. You fight, you work, you sacrifice to get to this stage. You work as hard as anyone you know. And then you get to this stage, and you 're told you 're not the same as a boy. Almost as good, but not quite the same. Think how devastating and demoralizing that could be” Venus Williams. For years, women have worked as hard as men to get an education, get their
religion, and ethnicity. An ongoing struggle for women that are as equally qualified as men is getting paid less. It is estimated that women are paid twenty percent less compared to their male colleagues. Women have been trying to change these statistics for many years. If women got paid the same as men, it could help benefit the economy, yet females with more education lose money due to the gender pay gap. The biological differences between men and women are inevitable, but there is no reason why a
the mid 1800’s women have been fighting for equality and while many issues have been accomplished it seems that women still have a long and difficult battle before them especially in the workplace. Today, women still face difficulties in the workplace and many times a woman must be leery about how she approaches the situation, if she approaches it at all. For most women in the workplace are at risk of losing their employment when confronting such issues. In this time of age, women face the issues
At the beginning of World War I in 1918, men were headed off to war leaving behind jobs that needed backfilling. The United States Employment Service were among the agencies who recruited women to fill those positions that they felt were not work for men, but more suitable for women. In a 1918 NY Times article, the Assistant Director of the U.S. Employment Service was quoted as saying “When the lists have been prepared…it is believed that the force of public opinion and self-respect will prevent
The Constitution states, “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men were created equal”. Yet, it is the twentieth century and we still haven’t reached this state. Women believed that when we gained the rights to vote discrimination would be over, but they were wrong. Today women are paid a large percentage amount less than men are paid, and the percentage is worse for colored women. In the following paragraphs I will be providing you with stunning facts about the wage gap that you may
Equal pay for female workers has been a civil rights headline since around World War II. Women of all sorts of race have been fighting for this unfair wage gap to end for decades. Though fighting for the wage gap to vanish has been tough, women have continued to fight for their rights regardless of the punishment they could have faced. The Equal Pay Act signed by John F. Kennedy is the act that ultimately got everyone talking and it is also the Act that has helped the gap as a whole. The equal pay
Has the Pay Gap Narrowed Between Men and Women in the United States? For many years in the United States, women have been faced with equality issues. Men were regarded as superior, which made women feel inferior and insignificant. One place this has occurred is the workplace. This type of inequality dates backs centuries and comes from the common belief that since men were the breadwinners, women should take care of the home and children. As a result, men were believed to be more efficient in their
wages of men and women. In the 1960's, women were paid approximately 60 cents for every dollar men received for their work. Although progress has been made since Congress passed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, equality has not yet been achieved. Today, thirty-six years later, women still earn only seventy-six percent of the wages of men. Early studies found convincing evidence that women were being construed as inferior when it came to their work. Jobs that were dominated by women were paid less than