Equality: The Equal Pay Act Of 1963

As I was conducting research about police brutality I came up with three questions I wanted to find out. I wanted to know what race group is affected by police brutality the most, why they were affected by this the most and what to do to stop police brutality involving shooting civilian. This Paper talk about how police brutality is a major issue in America right now. There’s many different types of police brutality but police officers killing civilians is something that is issue in our nation currently. After doing reaching this topic I was able to find out that African Americans have been affected by this the most out of any race. African Americans are affected by this the most because in some cases African Americans are usually stereotyped and this causes them to be treated different by police. Ways we can help this issue is by supporting these organizations that are against police brutality and encouraging police officers around the nation to always have a body camera on them at all times.

I would look to see what wage increases were done in the history of each employee; I would do this to see if all employees in each department were equally paid within the guidelines of the Equal Pay Act “the EPA requires employers to pay men and women equally for performing the same work” (Thorne, Ferrell, & Ferrell, 2011). I would then see when the last evaluation was done on each employee; I would check to see if any pay increases were done; I would inspect this to be sure each employee was fairly evaluated based on their job responsibilities. To get everyone in compliance, I would also compare the compensation of other firms to ours to be sure we are being fair to our employees.

The Equal Pay Act of 1963 was influential in creating a progressive environment which would contribute to creating a fairer world for all. The Act was instrumental in changing the thought process of Americans at the time, and is responsible for supporting equal pay in the workplace. Gender equality pay is an issue people have been fighting over for years, but when the Equal Pay Act of 1963 passed, it certainly aided in the fight for equality for all. (Salem Press Encyclopedia)

I generally believe in treating all people as I would like to be treated, with respect and courtesy; as a carer I regularly deal with two different groups of people – service users and colleagues. A consistent part of my job is to meet the needs of service users who would fall under the disabilities characteristic in the Equality Act 2010.

Gender equality is something that has been a problem through the ages. Susan B. Anthony and many others fought for the right to vote which was granted in 1920. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law stating that no employer can discriminate based on gender. The American Association of University Women published a graph on Women’s Median Annual Earnings as a Percentage of Men’s Median Annual Earnings for Full-time, Year-round Workers, 1974-2014 and it shows that in 1974, women were paid 59% of what men were paid. The graph shows the improvements over the years and that in 2014, women were paid 79% of what men were paid. The gap has not budged since 2014. The gender pay gap has improved over the years, but it will not close until new legislation passes.

Equality is important and means treating everyone fairly and giving everyone the opportunity to feel included.

Many may think of children’s rights violations occurring in the poor, war-torn countries of the world, children in the United States suffer from certain encroachments on their rights as well.also children in the United States working on farms are unprotected from the danger of using dangerous tools and machinery, as well as many other dangers of working on farms.

The inequality of pay between a man and a woman grows when the woman's race is taken into consideration, statistically, white women earn seventy-eight cents, African-American women earn sixty-four cents and Latina women earn fifty-six cents for every dollar earned by a white man as stated on www. whitehouse.gov. This significant wage gap is not just a bunch of numbers -- it has real life consequences that affect real life women: women with growing children to feed, women of color, disabled women, aging women longing retirement, and your own

The novel Between Shades of Grey by Ruta Sepetys does an excellent job illustrating the troubling issue of child labor. The extent of child labor in a country is directly linked by the nature and extent of poverty within it. Child labor deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity. It is detrimental to physical and mental development. Today, there are an estimated 246 million child laborers around the globe. This irritating social issue is not only violates a nation’s minimum age laws , it also involves intolerable abuse, such as child slavery, child trafficking, debt bondage, forced labor, and illicit activities. In Between Shades of Grey , Lina and her ten year old brother are unrightfully charged 25 years of

Based on the Constitution, it is possible for individuals in society to achieve equality because the I, II, VII, and XIII Amendments give citizens of the United States freedoms that were not originally given in the Constitution. Amendments I and Amendments II allows us to bear arms in order to protect ourselves from any violence and from criminals. Amendment I also gives us the ability to believe whatever religion without anyone saying what we should worship. It also gives us the right to speak freely and to peacefully protest. Amendments VIII and Amendment Xlll gives us the ability to protect ourselves from any government tyranny and it also gives us the ability to speak freely on what is unfair. It also gives us the right to be respected and it also protects us from being enslaved from another person. Although not many people believe in the Amendments II and VIII, these Amendments still are used to today and protects us as U.S. citizens. Lasting Thoughts: What is the last thing you want to tell me about your views on equality?

One problem that Americans are facing is the inequality between men and women, whether it is in everyday life or in a professional atmosphere. One step that has been taken toward equality was introduced with the Equal Pay Act of 1963, signed by President John F. Kennedy. This law was the first affecting the amount of job opportunities available for women and allowing them to work in traditionally male dominated fields. On the outside, this would sound like a solution where nothing could possibly go wrong, but it is not.

On June 10, 1963, Congress passed the Equal Pay Act this law made it illegal to pay women lower wage rates for the same job strictly based on their sex. Before that, separate job listings for men and women advertised in newspapers with different pay scales for the same jobs with the highest-level jobs advertising for men only. Subsequently, two important court cases, Schultz vs. Wheaton Glass (1970) which ruled jobs only need to be substantially equal and not identical to be protected under the Equal Pay Act and Corning Glass Works vs. Brennan (1974) that determined women could not be paid less simply because they would work at a lower pay rate than men helped to strengthen and further define the Equal Pay Act (Rowen). Although the Equal Pay Act and the civil rights laws that followed helped change the workplace and began to combat wage inequality these laws have not closed the persistent gap between women’s and men’s wages.

“I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.” – Alice Paul (Alice Paul Quote)

Women are continually being overlooked for promotions and additional projects in the workplace for the same reasons. Employers assume that women with families have other obligations, so they won’t consider those women for additional responsibility. Because of this, women aren’t even given the opportunity of job advancement and the opportunity to compete with men in the workplace.

Equal Pay Act of 1963 mandated that men and women doing equal jobs receive equal pay. Within Microsoft there are more men then women working with them. To make the women feel more worthy to the company they have put together a “Women at Microsoft Employee Resource Group.” They support women through oppourtunites such as global conferences, networking events, and mentoring. They strive to be a leader in maattracting more women to hgih tech careers. Microsoft is also involved in numberous programs aimed to attract, recruit, retain, and develop women form around the world in computer technology. They begin introducing the high tech jobs to young girls and women at all women colleges or at STEM programs at elementary schools. Every year Microsoft