Race And Racism : The Purpose Of Race

Women are advancing in the workplace both in volume and in numbers of higher positions, but are still not paid equally to men. For every dollar earned by men, Caucasian women earn 59 cents,

The gender wage gap in America is a social problem that has existed since women entered the workforce. According to the National Committee on Pay Equity, for every dollar earned by a man, a woman made 78.3 cents in 2013 (Leon-Guerrero, 2016). Data from 1983 to 1998 and concluded that women workers in their prime earning years make 38% of what men make. During the 15-year period, an average prime-age working woman earned only $273,592 compared with $722,693 earned by the average working man in 1999 (Leon-Guerrero, 2016). The wage gap affects women of color in a more profound way that it does non-hispanic white women. Hispanic women are making 53%, African American women are making 64%, and Asian American women are making 87% of white men’s earnings each year (AAUW, 2013).

Errin Haines Whack notes in an article published in the Associated Press that there is more than just one wage gap. The racial wage gap is another issue that is arguably larger than the wage gap between men and women. Whack states that this wage gap – between African Americans and White Americans is larger than it was in the 1980’s in America. The main reason for this great divide; economic discrimination. More importantly, black women are seeing the lowest wages compared to white men and women as well as black men. Specifically, Whack mentioned the differences of wages, using the white man as an anchor for the year of 2015. A black man with an identical background to the white man earns 22 cents for every dollar of the anchor. Compared to the black woman who only earns 11 cents less than a white woman, but still makes 34 cents less than a white man’s dollar. Whack further cites that one way to decrease the gap involved attaining higher education.

In American society today there is an imbalance in the gender income gap between men and women in the work force. Many factors such as discrimination, productivity, educational background and disproportional hours worked contribute to this ongoing challenge. While many are skeptical, others remain to have strong beliefs that women and men are treated equally. In most professions according to Glynn “women only earn seventy seven cents for every dollar earned by men” (2014). Although, the seventy seven cents figure does not accurately reflect gender discrimination, it does capture some discrimination,

Equal pay is a problem on a global scale. Over 145 countries have a documented pay wage gap (Werft). One would hope the United States would have the smallest wage gap, but in 2016, the United States was in only 45th place in the smallest wage gap (“Rankings”). In fact, most women in the United States only make $0.77 compared to a whole dollar they should earn. The state with the worst wage gap is Louisiana, with only, on average $0.69 for every man’s dollar (“Rankings”). One in three of the 15.2 million families headed by women have fallen below the poverty line, leaving their children to suffer in poverty

After years of Civil Rights Movements and Pay Equity Acts, as of 2014, women still only make 79 cents to a man 's every dollar. Although the wage gap has shrunk since the 1970’s, progress has recently stalled and chances of it vanishing on its own is unlikely. The gains that American women have made towards labor market experience and skills is tremendous. In fact, women account for 47% of labor workforce and 49.3% of American jobs. But despite of women’s strides, a gender pay gap still exists. Experts suggest that it will take 100 years to close the gap at the rate employers and legislators are working to create solutions. But by allowing women to work in higher paying positions and by proposing and updating pay equity laws, the gender gap can finally be diminished.

In 2008 black male workers only made 74 cents to every dollar made by a white worker with equal education. This is a significant issue because it creates a self reinforcing system that puts a large portion of the population at a disadvantage. Although the poor economic situation for African Americans in the U.S. may not be as prevalent as it was in the 1930’s, there still exists a significant gap between wages earned by white and black workers.

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

For my activism project, I teamed up with Jada Rush to conduct a gender wage disparity in the United States awareness bake sale. On April 9, 2015, we pulled aside a table outside of the library, right in front of Starbucks and began advertising our bake sale. Our inventory included chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin cookies, they were two in each package and since it was a wage disparity awareness bake sale, each bag of cookies were fifty cents for females and seventy-five cents for males. On each bag of cookies there was a piece of paper attached to it listing statistics and facts of wage disparity. As our bake sale went on for a few minutes we saw that no one showed our table any interest except for one guy, but he was an African-American Studies major and he said that he was currently studying the racial aspects of wage disparity. It was not until we advertised that we were giving away free cookies and were accepting donations, that our table received attention from the library goers. About an hour later, we were out of inventory and surprised to count up the donations that we had received from classmates and library goers. The problem we addressed was wage disparity. Wage disparity is the inequality of gender in salaries. This issue occurs in the United States along with many other countries around the whole such as Belgium, Rwanda, and Nicaragua. Gender wage disparity affects all kinds of women, it does not matter what age, race, or level of education the woman obtains.

Women make less income than men even if they are both in the same occupation and working the same amount of hours. The workforce has many different inequalities within, towards race and gender. Below will show how age, race, and household type relates to income and net worth, the relationships between educational attainment and unemployment rates, and the wage gap of occupations for men and women, including the reasons as to why women earn more or less in certain occupations. There is a huge gap of unreasonable reasons as to why situations are programmed in the work system.

Although race does not exist in the world in an objective way, it still is relevant in today’s society. It is obvious that race is real in society and it affects the way we view others as well as ourselves. Race is a social construct that is produced by the superior race and their power to regulate. “The category of ‘white’ was subject to challenges brought about by the influx of diverse groups who were not of the same Anglo-Saxonstock as the founding immigrants” (Omi and Winant 24). Frankly, ‘white’ was the norm, the others were considered an outcast.

I took the time today to read the article titled “What is Race” by Victor M. Fernandez, RN, BSN and found myself agreeably intrigued and in admiration of his thoughts regarding race. Victor touched on an extremely insightful and significant topic; one that most people have sturdy opinions about. Race – what is it? What does this mean to you? What does it mean to our upcoming careers in the nursing field? I trust that how we characterize and assess our awareness of race is due exclusively to how we were raised. I do not mean merely what we were taught from our family or culture about race, but to a certain extent how we have lived it, and how it has lived around us. “Race is a modern idea. Ancient societies, like the Greeks, did not divide

Inequality is not a new concept to most of us. It has been apart of our history since before we founded colonies. Inequality and discrimination can take many forms and there are many facets one can explore. The most striking for women are the attitudes and behaviors people have towards them in the workplace. As the years have past, inequality has had a difference face and color, and now it comes in the form of unequal pay, sexual harassment of women and the glass ceiling effect in the workplace. Women have traditionally held roles in which they are undervalued and therefore paid less and have less influence over decision as their male counterparts (Buchanan, 2014). Gaps in salary have existed throughout history,

All people need to work for a living, but some may have it easier than others. Racial inequality, specifically relating to minorities and white individuals is a current issue that needs addressing. It is sad to say, but Hispanics and blacks make significantly less money than their white counterparts. In 2012, whites were making an average of $51,017, blacks and Hispanic respectively making $39,005 and $33,321.1 Currently, the rankings of average wage earned by race is as follows, Asian Americans, white Americans, Latin Americans, African Americans and finally Native Americans. We like to believe that such a thing does not exist as our past dealing with inequality has left a permanent scar on us, just saying something racially offensive may

Abraham Lincoln said “... all men are created equal” in the Gettysburg Address and many of us take this to true yet here in the 21 century we still allow this. Ethnicity largely influences the quality of the job you get as well as the income you will receive in the workforce. Currently African American men working full time, year round get paid an average of 75.3 percent comparable to caucasian men, according to the U.S. Current Population Survey and the National Committee on Pay Equity.The unemployment rate for African Americans is typically at about twice that of Caucasians whom also have many substantial advantages at work. They are offered a substantially larger variety of job opportunities and positions that earn more money and have more power. This form of inequality exists in both gender and race. Though the pay gap has been reduced drastically within the last few years, it still remains a very common form of inequality