Equal Work Equal Pay

According to the US Census Bureau, in 2010 the median earnings for women were $36,931 compared to $47,715 for men. [3] The majority of college degrees earned in the US are by women, and yet a study according to the American Association of University Women found that these educated graduated women are starting out with earning 5 percent less than their male peers. This was after several factors were taken into account, such as experience, training, and what school women earned their degrees from. Their study summarizes that, “In this analysis the portion of the pay gap that remains unexplained after all other factors are taken into account is 5 percent one year after graduation and 12 percent ten years after graduation.” – Behind the Pay Gap, American Association of University Women, Dey, Judy Goldberg

The gender wage gap has been around since women began having jobs and careers. Though in the beginning the gender wage gap was purely do to discrimination by social stereotypes, now it has become more complicated than that. The issue today has evolved into a complex issue which combines our American culture with business economics. As a result, some are skeptical of the issue and some are very adamant in their beliefs. The issue encompasses not only gender stereo types but also educational, government policies and business’s best practices.

There are nearly as many women as there are men working, yet, as it was discovered in 2011, on average, a woman will only earn seventy-seven cents for every dollar that a man earns. Women owned businesses make up for over a

On the basis of gender, women continue to be paid less for the same work as men; however, women are outnumbered by men in the highest-paying jobs and dominate in the lowest-paying jobs.

A current political issue in the United States is unequal payment based on the sex of the one who is employed. Rick McKee uses he editorial cartoon, “Equal Pay,” to indirectly characterize our current president, and create some irony around the whole topic of inequality in paychecks. McKee intends to reach all possible viewers/voters to make the president appear to have some hypocrisy to create some irony surrounding the president and his people-pleasing executive orders. The moral points in this piece of artwork are: if someone wants others to change they should change first, one cannot blame their mistakes on someone else, and be humble. The main purposes of this satirical cartoon is to criticize the current president’s lack of knowledge of the issue of unequal pay going on even with those that work for him, and his attitude of a hypocrite to blame what he is in charge of on other people.

Overview: Men make more money the women doing the same job, even though, women hold 70% of jobs (Flander, p. 20-22). For every dollar a white man makes women make 77 cents, black women make 64 cents, and Latinas make 56 cents, that’s just for independant women, women with families make even less than that.

According to the The American Association of University Women (AAUW), the wage gap will close in 2119. The wage gap is happening in the world, but people just cannot see it. The wage gap affects women of all ages, races, and education levels. Women get paid only 80 percent of what men get paid, and their education level does not help close the gap. However, people also believe women should have the wage gap because of the extra retraining needed after childbirth. Nevertheless, the wage gap is real and it is affecting women of all ages, races, and education levels.

Government has tackled the issue of pay equity for several decades, through a string of Acts. The issue arose as part of the discussion of civil rights in the 1960s but the conversation continues today. The concept of equal pay for equal work has philosophical roots in the doctrine of equality, where all Americans are considered to be equal under the law and entitled to equal rights. The issue of equal pay became a public policy topic as a means of enforcing this equality doctrine. This paper will discuss not only the doctrine, but the history of equal pay legislation from the Civil Rights Act to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009.

As Claudia Goldin, a professor of economics at Harvard University who has spent years researching the gender gap states, “By comparing the 469 occupations in the US Census, she found that women disproportionately holding certain jobs only accounted for about 25% of the difference in earnings between men and women. Factors within each occupation overwhelmingly accounted for differences in pay.” In her findings she found out that only 25% of the jobs do not have equal pay because of the type of work women are doing. This means that even with men and women having the same jobs, that the women will still get paid less than the men do. Another Economists Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn found, “Differences in occupation and industry explain about 49 percent of the wage gap, but 41 percent of the wage gap is not explained by differences in educational attainment, experience, demographic characteristics, job type, or union status” (Stevenson).This is just another statement backing up that the gender pay gap is not happening, just because women take lower paying jobs than men. It says that even if women do the exact same job as men, women still will get paid less than men do

Majority of men tend to hold degrees and jobs in physics, math, engineering and computer sciences whereas women tend to have more in psychology, biology, and veterinary medicine. While most men earn degrees and have jobs in those fields, it does not mean that women cannot, it just means women do other things than that. Men tend to do jobs that most women would hate, or even avoid. We do not see many women taxi drivers, truck drivers, or oil-rig workers. How about a woman roofer or coal miners, do we see a lot of those?

In the modern United States of America i do think that men are treated different than women. Men are treated as if they are superior to women. Pay in the United States may vary for the same job based on weather you are a woman or a man. I think there is somewhat of a system of equality, but this system is nowhere near perfect. The reason our system is not perfect is because we still don't have things such as equal pay. I believe that our society could have a perfect system of equality if things like equal pay were in commision. So as of right now i do not believe we have a great system of equality in effect. This is what i think about the system of equality in the United

Studies done by the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggest that women make about seventy eight cents to the man’s dollar. They note that this ratio does not take into account the different professions

In January 2009, President Barack Obama signed The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act alongside Lilly Ledbetter, an equal pay activist. This Act allowed women and men to receive the same pay regardless of any reasoning. In his speech, President Obama personally thanked Ledbetter for her effort on being an advocate for the equality of American workers, especially women (Obama). Eight years in and significant parts of the population are still frustrated over uneven pays in the United States and around the world.

Another In the United States are huge differences in the job business. In the 20th century the average woman earned about 60% of what the average man earned. Through the time period of the late 1970s to the early 2000s the average woman income increased to about 80% of what the average man earned according to Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality. And since 2005 it stayed unchanged. This could be caused by the occupational sex segregation, women and men tend to work in different job occupations. The professions fields with higher percentage of males working are the jobs with higher earnings. For example almost 100% of the Preschool teachers are female and almost all mechanical engineers are male, according to an article from U.S. News. Preschool teachers just earn about half of the money the mechanical engineers earn.

In 2013, full-time female employee 's made only seventy-eight cents of every dollar earned by men, which means a wage gap of twenty-two percent. Women are nearly half of the labor pool and are equal if not main, jobholder 's in four out of ten households. Not to mention, women receive more college and graduate degrees than men. Women still coninue to bring in less than men. On average, women earn less than men in basically every profession that there is adequate income data for both women and men to estimate an earnings percentage (IWPR, 2014).