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    When debating about gender equality in the US, there is one statistical data always pop-up “women earn 77 cents for every dollar men make.” To emphasize the point of the argument, women do not make less than men do, they earn less than men do. The diction in this argument stresses the important of what to look for statistically. Although the article, “The Gender Wage Gap: Debunking the Rationalizations”, by Hilary Lips successfully emphasizes the adversities, difficulties, and controversies in assessing

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    the UK newspaper articles on gender wage gap. Media in general has always been an important source of knowledge and information for citizens. Furthermore, the media is a powerful tool to be able to manage information in order to change or/and persuade thoughts of people that consume it. Throughout the history women have not received the same treatment as men in terms of education, status and profession, in fact one of the issues that still exist is the gender pay gap, which is a social problem that

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    Economics of the Gender Pay Gap: The business world is continuly changing in all different types of industries. Women owning their own businesses is part of how our economy survives. Women owned businesses has increased from 29 percent in 1997 to 68 percent in 2007.women owned businesses take up 47 percent of all of the businesses in the economy (The Atlantic). Theses busineses bring in about 23 million jobs to the U.S. job force; also it brings in $3 trillion (NWBC.gov). “These jobs not only sustain

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    Sexism in the Workplace: The Gender Pay Gap Women earn less than men. In fact, in America, a woman earns an average of 79 cents to her male coworker’s dollar. Many people see this statistic and think that 21 cents is nothing to fuss over, but the truth is that “the cumulative impact of lower wages throughout women’s careers is devastating, costing a woman working full time, year-round close to half a million dollars over the course of her career” (“New Report”). Although the inferior treatment of

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    social media: famous feminists like Emma Watson have spoken out about the gender pay gap, and have tried to assert that women are paid less for preforming the same jobs as men- but that is a blatant mistruth. The statistic conveniently omits nuance- and doesn’t accurately portray the American labor force. Almost every country in the Western world has legal ramifications for discriminating against someone on the basis of gender; and even with policies like affirmative

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    My research topic is about the gender wage gap. I have tried to look up a variety of articles on the subject from varying points of view however, most articles seem to support the same theme. By this I mean that almost all of the articles that I have read in researching this topic follow the same flaws as all the others before it. Now, I am not stating that there is in fact no wage disparity, I am simply stating that everyone keeps using a broad stroke averaged number without quantifying the data

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    Hospitals are among the worst offenders when it comes to pay inequality. Female doctors, on average, are paid significantly less than their male counterparts. Gender pay gap is defined as the average difference between men and women’s aggregate hourly earnings. In today’s United States hospitals women physicians average only around seventy-nine percent of what the average male doctor with an equal level of education makes. This topic is not a new discussion. This act of discrimination has been affecting

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    rigged whether it’s with you or against you. In the paper I will argue why the gender pay gap is an inequality for motherhoods by showing statistics that women start off with less pay, women are stereotyped to nurture/stay home with the children, college education has no effect on the gender gap, and women who can’t have children are even being penalized. Many say that motherhood is the biggest reason why the gender pay gap is a thing. When women get into the real world and start a new job, it is believed

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    inequality between the genders. There are nearly 3 times the men in office compared to women,” (Greenblatt). When there is a bill that needs to be passed that impacts women’s body/life, men are making the choice on whether to pass the bill. In March 2017, Vice President Mike Pence had a meeting with

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    What I’ve learned from my audience analysis is that not many people know about what the causes of the gender pay gap are. They left several comments about not know why or how it came to exist. I did learn that everyone at least has heard of the gender pay gap. As far as interest goes, the average interest in this topic was 8 which surprised me. Since there are more males in the class I figured that they wouldn’t care as much about the topic since it doesn’t directly affect them in a negative way

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