Randall Filer's Male-Female Wage Differences

First of all, the gender pay is a real problem in the world, despite what many think. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, the gender pay gap is “the difference between the amounts of money paid to women and men, often for doing the same work”. This is important because many people think that the gender wage gap does not exist, even though it clearly does. Another reason why this is important is because many people argue that the gender wage gap exists because women have lesser-paying jobs, when a lot of the time it happens between men and women working the same job. Many people do not realize what the gender pay gap actually is, and they form an opinion of it before they know what it really is.

The gender pay gap is the difference between male and female earnings averaged in percentages. This difference in pay due to gender seems like it would be an obsolete practice in the twenty-first century, but it is real and is affecting millions of women and households in the country. In 2014, women working full time in the United States were paid 79 percent on average of what men were being paid, which is a gap of approximately 21 percent. This means that in the United States, females earned 94 cents on average to every dollar earned by males. According to one study by the Department of Labor’s Chief Economist, a typical 25-year-old woman working full time would earn $5,000 less over the course of her working career than a typical 25-year old man working in the same career. The reason why this pay gap exists does expand into other factors such as education, experience, the work being performed, qualifications, age, and ethnicity which are taken into account. The studies being conducted on the pay gap has economists verifying that discrimination is the best overall explanation and factor of the difference in pay between males and females.

The gender pay gap in the United States forms a slightly mixed feeling. On one hand, after years of opposition to the earnings of women compared to men. There has been a large increase in women's earnings since the 1970s. The gender pay gap in the United States is measured through the female to male average yearly earnings for a full-time, year-round worker. Previously, a woman earned 77 cents for every dollar that a male gets. Since 1980, the gap has narrowed by 16.8 cents, improving from 60.2 cents to 77 cents, as stated by the Institute for Women’s Policy. The current pay gap between female and male is 82 cent for every one dollar. This growth is significant because it opposes the relative stability of the earlier incomes of a woman in the

The issue of gender inequality in the workplace affects many. The issue of discrimination in wages has been an issue since women were allowed to hold a job and has continued, and possibly progressively gotten better, but it has also gotten progressively worse as it is easier to hide this

Gender wage gap is the one type of discrimination that has received the most outcry. Wage gap affects women of all races, especially African Americans and Hispanics. Your mother, your sister, niece, aunt, grandmother and your daughters are affected by this gap in pay. Gender wage gap affects everyone because it tell you that we all live in a society that judges someone's worth based on thier sex and not their ability and qualifications. Hispanics and Latinos are paid 55 cents to an average man’s dollar, an African American woman is paid 60 cents, a white woman 77 cents to every man’s dollar. Gender wage gap does not only focus on paying women less but paying women that are minorities way less. This is a social problem that began years ago, Although the government is making strides to eradicate gender wage gap we still have a long way to go. This disparity should be everyone's concern not just women. This wage gap leaves working woman and their familie shortchanged because the gap translates into $10,762 less per year for an average working

The gender wage gap is the difference in men and women’s annual salaries and can be found in every kind of job at all times. The gap stems from prejudice against women workers, resulting in women receiving less pay than men do for the same work. As of 1999, women make up sixty percent of the workforce and are the main income provider for four of every ten families. Yet, in 2015, the median annual income for women was $40,742 and $51,212 for men. That is eighty percent of what men are earning, or a twenty percent wage gap. In the past half-century there has not been a consistent decrease in the wage gap: in 1960 women were earning sixty-four percent of men’s annual income, in 1978 they were earning fifty-nine percent, and in 2000 they were

Lawyers Maria Lewis and DeMaris Trapp from the article “She works hard for less money” argues that women are paid less because of their gender and are paid less than their male counterparts. They both focused on the need for legal action to bring the wage gap to a close. Zsuza Daczo on the other hand fuses both Perry and Lewis and Trapp’s argument in his thesis “Wage inequality and the gender wage gap: are American women swimming upstream?”. He does acknowledge that there does seem to be discrimination against women, however, mentions society as the cause of the wage gap. The 4 authors, all brought up different perceptive, but Daczo who does an effective job by using various research.

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.

Now knowing that there is a gendered wage gap in the United States today with many factors contributing to it, we now have to ask, “how big is it?”. Starting with Chapman’s article, we find that his findings are shown visually in graphs. The two main graphs he goes over are the relationship between region and wage for both male and female, and the difference between race of the gendered wage gap found from the previous graph. When looking at the region graph, there is a clear distinction between male and female wages in the same region, with smaller wages for women. Chapman then goes a step further and applies race to the equation to see the difference between the gaps. As one would assume, caucasian women had the smallest wage gap in the United States when compared to African American women and then Latinos with the biggest wage gap. So, when deciding how big the gendered wage gap is, staticians have to consider

The pay gap between genders exhibits sexism in America yet some researchers are in denial. Warren Farrell, expert on gender issues within legislation and former board member of National Organization for Women, claims otherwise. In his book Why Men Earn More, he attributes difference in wages to females choosing human resources jobs, which pay less, and not choosing harsher jobs that pay more (Farrell). His overall point is that men sacrifice more thus companies pay more for those sacrifices. His argument only compares the genders when different job requirements alter wages, but does not mention wages of identical jobs.

The Article “Lily Ledbetter wasn’t lazy; she- and all women- just want equal pay” by Lanier Isom is about the gender wage gap. The gender wage gap is the difference between male and female earnings. Isom basically states in this article that the wage gap exists because of gender, however many experts state that the wage gap simple does exists do to a factor such as gender, but of multiple factors. These factors being that the statistics presented in favor of a Wage gap are incorrect and manipulated to seem correct. That the so called wage gap may be in fact do to the choice of job generally selected by women or, the failure to present evidence that completely contradicts the false statements made by the author.

Between the time both articles were written, it appears there has been little changes in the wage gap, but the explanations as to why are similar. In the article in the book, is the Gender Wage Gap Justified, in 2012 they pointed out that the women workers median income was 71.8 percent that of the median income of full-time men workers. Lis Quast states, the 2014 median hourly wages of U.S. women were only 83 percent of men’s. They suggest the decrease in the difference of pay is not because women are being paid more, but because men are being paid less. J.R Shackleton says, “Males and females make different choices in the labour market, in terms of the trade-off between pay and other job characteristics, choice of education, choice of occupation,

It takes a deeper look into the fact, that as an average, men are more worried about the paycheck while women are more occupied with how the benefit package works for them. This means that statistically women are more worried about the perks then the pay and this may be a contributing factor in the gender wage gap. Now this aspect is something that I hadn’t ever really considered but upon reading it I immediately thought about how my wife and I looked for jobs. She always looked at the benefits first and the pay second, while, I only really cared about the pay and thought that benefits were just an added bonus. This is definitely going to be part of my research

It talks about how females usually stop their schooling after receiving a master’s degree and do not often continue through college to receive a PHD. According to this article, since most females do not usually get their doctorate degree, maybe this is why the field is dominantly females. Employers do not have to pay females as much if they do not have their doctorate degree and the article also mentions that most men have their doctorate but, the article also states that women with identical degrees still make less every year. In 2015 the difference between male and female pay was roughly $17,802. It seems through the years dating back to 1982, women always made less than men but every year the difference increased. It bothers me that women are making a lot less money then men especially if they do have the same degree but since I do not have statistics, I cannot determine the reason. It bothers me because the Lilly Ledbetter Act was put in place to rid unfair pay amongst gender but it seems to still be going on in this field. This article definitely makes me want to strive and not stop until I achieve my doctorate degree, and it

The text states there is a variation in the income of the individuals in the service sector and good-producing sector. The service sector on average makes less than the good-producing sector. The text states “ …annual average weekly earnings for full-time workers in goods-priducing sector was $958, compared to $854 for the services”. (Krahn, Hughes, & Graham, 95). This shows that there is a huge variation among the service sector and producing-good sector. Furthermore, job quality and wages vary by occupation. The text discusses occupations with high weekly earning including senior managers, professional business and finances, health and professors, workers in applied sciences and teacher and professors. Occupations earning low weekly earnings include occupations related in the service sector being chefs and servers, child care and home support workers. The article suggests the higher paid occupations receive higher wages as they bargain and demand full time work and the basis that their education is formal in comparison to their lower paid counterparts. Moreover, the text discusses job quality and wages vary by gender. The text determines that females on average earn less than their male counter parts. For example the text states “female teachers and professors earned 90.9 percent of weekly earning s of their male counterparts ($1250 and $1375 respectively)”. (Krahn, Hughes, & Graham, 94). This demonstrates that there is a huge wage gap among genders in the work force. The article discusses this female to male earnings ratio as it varies in groups and job types typically women work part time therefore their wage is dissimilar to their male peers. The text outlines the job qualities and wages that vary in industry, occupation and gender. There are many things to take into account when varying among these niches, components such as education level, ability to