The Wages For Equal Wages

In our constitution we are all equal, but why are we not paid equally? The gender wage gap movement will result in social change because it is bringing awareness to women in the workplace getting paid lower than her male counterpart. On the other hand, many other people may argue that the gap is not because of gender, it is because men work longer hours compared to women since they have children to take care of. I believe that this movement could improve by making people more aware of the through more examples such as the Women’s U.S.A. Soccer Team wanting more pay and equal pay.

“Imagine you 're a little girl. You 're growing up. You practice as hard as you can, with girls, with boys. You have a dream. You fight, you work, you sacrifice to get to this stage. You work as hard as anyone you know. And then you get to this stage, and you 're told you 're not the same as a boy. Almost as good, but not quite the same. Think how devastating and demoralizing that could be” Venus Williams. For years, women have worked as hard as men to get an education, get their dream job, or even get a promotion in a job they are currently at so they can earn less pay than a man and not even know it. They take on these important roles and titles as a manager or take on more jobs than they can handle to prove they are worthy as the next guy and to receive no raise or still underpaid to the guy who does not work as hard or have the same job title. However, women and men have begun to see this a problem and started to work together to make a change. Women makeup over half the workforce and are seen, if not equal, or are the breadwinner in four out of ten families (About Pay Equity & Discrimination 1). Women in the workforce should earn the same pay as men because they work hard to get an education, their race should not play into an effect, and they support a family.

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.

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

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.

The data shows that women earn only 76 cents for each dollar earned by male coworkers. Women work just as hard as men, the pay gap is too wide, and job rates are going down. Women should be getting payed the same as men.

Employers should be required to pay men and women the same salary for the same job for the following reasons. Women can work just as hard as women and don't get paid by the dollar. The gender wage gap is most effective to women in the economy. Would you want to be cheated out of your hard earned money? People need to eliminate the gender wage gap so people can earn what they deserve. There's even a wage gap among men and women are still behind them.

“During 2012, median weekly earnings for female full-time workers were $691 compared with $854 per week for men, a gender wage ratio of 80.9 percent.” (Women’s Wages are Lower Due to Occupational Segregation” by Ariane Hegewisch and Maxwell Matite, Institute for Women’s Policy Research) This was as early as 2012, when it was made illegal for employers to pay women less what a man would get paid for in 1963.(infoplease.com) Women still are fighting for this, a battle they will win. What does it matter what the gender is? Who does more work, who does it efficiently should be the one with a pay raise. Gender has nothing to do with

l. Working for the same employer and in the same kind of job in the US, if we look at averages, women get paid merely 79 cents against every single dollar paid to their male coworkers.

Equal Pay? What is equal? Don’t we all get paid the same? In today's society everyone, no matter the sex or the gender should be getting pay the same amount of money. Those question have been brought up throughout our lives, at least once you heard about it. Equal pay requires both sex to get paid in an equal amount. Equal pay for equal work is the concept of labor rights that individuals in the same workplace be given equal pay. In today's society we are facing issues with equal pay. Many believe that men are payed more than women. Discrimination can also play a big role of equal pay.

It is very hard to imagine individuals performing the same job and the rate of pay not being equal due to the gender of the worker. This occurs too often in our society and is unjust and unfair. Women often characterized as homemakers have not been paid at the same rate as men when they enter the workforce. Even when women work jobs which require more worker than men, they have a lower pay rate. Female employees are still suffering from salary inequality.

Why should a woman doing the same job as a man not be paid the same amount? There are many protests where women also fight to not be sexulized and be punished for their own bodies. Women are still fighting against sexism to this

Research has identified several factors that contribute to the difference between wages paid to women and wages paid to men, commonly called the gender wage gap. Many say that these differences in the choices and behavior of women and men in balancing their work, personal, and family lives. These factors include, the occupations and industries in which they work, and their human capital development, work experience, career interruptions, and motherhood. Other factors are sources of wage adjustments that compensate specific groups of workers for benefits or duties that disproportionately impact them. These factors include health insurance, other fringe benefits, and overtime at work (Webster, 2013). The gender wage gap, the observed difference between wages paid to women and wages paid to men, has been a source of both political controversy and economic research throughout the past several decades. The gap is commonly measured as the ratio of the median earnings of women and the median earnings of men, which indicates the proportion of the median male earnings that the median female earnings represent (Webster, 2013). When the ratio is calculated for all men and women who are paid wages or salaries or for all wage and salary earners who work full-time and year-round, the measure is often called the raw gender wage gap.

Reading research on equal pay for women has opened up many questions and has created different solutions, but the lingering question is why have employers let this behavior and discrimination in the workplace, in the 21st century. An article titled, Equal Work for Equal Pay: Not Even College Helps Women, by Korva Coleman; who has claimed that women are considered worth less than men when going into the workforce after receiving their college degrees. Throughout the entire article, Coleman supports her claim by using different studies’ that, “show when men and women attend the same kind of college, pick the same major and accept the same kind of job, on average, the woman will still earn 82 cents to every dollar that a man earns” (Coleman).

If I could live out my life fighting for one cause it would be for equality among every race, gender, religion, and so forth. Many might claim that today's society carries a stable amount of equality. Yet, I would have to disagree. Individuals of all races and colors experience inequality. As a result of this many have come to believe that one race is more important than another. In reality, all races are equally deserving to a peaceful way of life. People also experience inequality based on their gender. For instance, women are still experiencing a wage gap. After completing the same work as a man might in a particular career, a woman deserves equal pay. On top of this, gender roles still linger in today's day and age. Included is the idea