The Wage Gap

Even though there is an Elimination Act of all forms of discrimination against women in 1979 the United States still continue to bridge a gap in wages. When you look at the wage gap you can clearly see the difference in gender and it is much worse for people of color. The wage gap is not just a gender issue it also affects racial minorities. Asian American women experience the smallest gender pay gap. The Hispanic and Latina women had the largest gap with 54 percent of what the white men were paid in 2013. The gender pay gap for American Indian and Alaska Native women has went down to 60 and 59 percent in 2013. As for African American women they are paid 64 percent of what white men were paid in 2013 and white women were paid 78 percent of what white men were paid ( Catherine, H). Over the years the wage gap is in fact improving but only by a small percentage. In 2012 the wage gap was 77% and in 2013 the

Different reasons are given in order to explain the gender wage gap. Some of reasons include: Women work for a shorter collective time in order to give birth and raise their families. Women’s work has less value than that of their male counterparts. The sexual division of labor, which assigns tasks to individuals on the basis of gender, creates blue and pink collar work and, thus, the devaluing of women’s labor. Aside from these valid points, the pay gap cannot be explained away. Women’s professions continue to be associated with smaller wages than men’s professions. Teaching, for example, is a female-dominated

“Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work” -Susan B. Anthony. Countless women, even here in the U.S. have some sort of the wage gap. The wage gap is the difference between the median earnings of women relative to median earnings of men. In this case, women earn a significant amount less than men. Although the wage gap has gotten smaller over the years, the wage gap still has a long way to go. Women deserve better than just minimum earnings. Full time, working women should obtain the best promotions and benefits. Women that work just as tough and have the equivalent qualifications as men do still earn less, and that is just unacceptable. The wage gap should be abolished on behalf of women of color and their struggle, equal pay is a global problem, equal pay benefits employers and workers, and the wage gap accumulates over time.

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.

In 1920, Women first acquired to right to vote after years and years of fighting to achieve it. This would be the first measure toward equality for women. During WWII while all the men were fighting in the war, women built the weapons for them. We later entered the workforce after the war. It currently shown now that there is a 20 percent wage gap for women. But did anyone know that in 2015 there was a 21 cent wage gap between men and women? Which means that the only difference between the wage gap issue as of last year and now is a 1 cent difference. So tell me, what do you think that wage gap is caused by, or better yet what is it? Well there are many different opinions, to some the wage gap is merely a percentage that

America was founded in 1776, but it wasn’t until more than 150 years later when women were even allowed to vote. Although we have come a long way since then, women in this country are still not equal to men. The wage gap is a commonly cited example of this, but it’s not what it seems to be. On first glance it seems that women are paid only 79 cents to a man’s dollar, and

The Wage Gap is unfair and it needs to be fixed, women should have the same equal rights as men. Women can have the same job as men, work the same amount of hours and still not receive the same amount of pay which is simply wrong. The Wage Gap is not fair for women, how much pay that you receive should not be determined by your gender. Women make 79 cents for every dollar earned by men, the wage gap for that is 21 percent. The Wage Gap is the difference in pay between two people.

Even though men and women who work in the same work place doing the same exact job should be getting the same exact pay, also known as the Equal Pay Act of 1963, this matter is still a constant battle. For example, women earned 79 cents for every dollar that a man earns (whitehouse.gov). This statistic, referred to as the gender gap, has been reoccurring for decades and although the numbers have changed throughout the years, the gap

Wage gap hurts women across the board by suppressing their income and making it way harder to balance their work and family. Every working class woman is affected by this

Although many people are now bringing up a pay gap between genders, there is something being over looked that proves there isn’t a pay gap, but something else. The Gender Income Gap is a supposed payment gap between men and women, stating that to every man’s dollar a woman only gets payed seventy cents. Statements like theses can grab people’s attention and get them to believe this without much proof of it actually existing. Most people get there information about the gap from surveys over all women and men average pay, this is not a good representation of the topic because it doesn’t go into any detail of actual jobs and difference of pay. There are many other factors that going into the pay gap that would make it into something else not necessarily a pay gap. There are several solutions for this problem most of them aren’t necessarily for equality but for the gain of one sex at the cost of the rights of another. The one I will be talking about later doesn’t need government intervention and doesn’t need for one sex to do more. This solution will come from “changes in the labor market, especially how jobs are structured and remunerated to enhance temporal flexibility.”1

The politically correct definition of the wage gap is “a statistical indicator often used as an index of the status of women’s earnings relative to men’s. It is also used to compare the earnings of other races and ethnicities to those of white males” (“The Wage Gap”). Some given statistics—per Jane Farrell and Sarah Jane Glynn of the Center for American Progress—that attribute to the wage gap were: 2.4 % race/ethnicity, 3.5 % union status, 10.5 % labor force experience, 21.9 % industry, and 27.4 % occupation. While a -6.7 % in educational attainment helped to ease the gender wage difference. These figures account for 59% of the reason for a wage gap, but 41% is still unaccounted for. Howard J. Wall can be quoted in The Regional Economist’s article “The Gender Wage Gap and Wage Discrimination: Illusion or Reality?”, which was published on the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, claiming that “the unexplained portion of the gender wage gap could be due to wage discrimination.” This discrimination,

We have all heard about the gender wage gap on the news or in the current debates, but why is it any concern to you? I understand that this issue might not apply to a college student; however, you need to be aware of this issue since it could affect your major and future profession. Surprisingly, this issue even applies to males. Some argue that women are facing a wage gap because they choose more flexible professions, lack negotiation skills, and produce less as many hours as men mostly because they are assumed to devote more time to children. I disagree, because women should have the right to earn same amount of money as a man regardless of their personality,

[Although wage gap is well-known and happens around the world, it has benefits and reasons for it. When bloggers and journalists write about ‘gender wage gap,’ they are not providing every detail that comes with it. So, it is true that wage gap is comparing pay, education level, work experience, and also the occupation.] “Other studies have shown that comparisons based of total compensation (in which women receive more ‘fringe benefits’ such as employer-^ that men mostly work in occupations which offer higher wages so that applies to the unequal pay. Women take a break, or leave their careers briefly. Women take these actions because of childbirth, or to develop their children. Also, women are more likely to do those. “Many claim that even

The “wage gap” is the gap between the earnings of people at the top and the earnings of the typical worker in the middle. In 1978, the male worker earned $48,000 a year, but people in the top 1% earned $390,000. By 2010, the typical worker earned even less than he did, but the people at the top earned twice as much as before. 400 richest Americans worth more than about half of all people in the country. After 1970s, flattened wage happened.

This database article discusses Kim Elsesser, a lecturer at UCLA and who has expertise on gender issues, and what she believes could help reduce the pay gap. One suggestion Elsesser has is that pay transparency be demanded. She reasons that if all women know what their male colleagues are making it “emboldens female employees to demand equal pay (1).” This could make a substantial difference because simply being ignorant to what one’s male counterparts are receiving will not get a woman angry and angry groups of people are what get change accomplished. It is granted that managers may not warm up to that at first, but they may be okay with it if it motivated workers to be more productive. This incentive would be possible by employees having the ability to compete with one another for a higher income.