Pay Gap Between Men And Women Research Paper
AP Language and Composition
20 November 2013
The Wage Gap Between Men & Women
The wage gap between males and females in the United States is an example of discrimination and sexism, and it should be changed so that both genders can come home with an equal salary every year that is directly proportional to their labor. Even though it is true that high-paying jobs aren’t always available, even in the lower class, the pay for each gender isn’t equal. The wage gap, initially, should be eradicated in all of the economic classes.
Education is, and always has been, a defining factor in social status. Whether or not someone received a high school diploma or graduated college determines how high-paying their future job is going to be, or even …show more content…
On April 9, 1963, while signing the Equal Pay Act of 1963, President John F. Kennedy stated that the document would be the end of “unconscionable practice of paying female employees less wages than male employees for the same job” (Glynn). Afterwards, in 1996, the National Committee on Pay Equality marked April 20th as “Equal Pay Day” (Fitzpatrick). But the Act was proved wrong when in September of this year, the National Census Bureau released that from the years 2002 to 2012, the wage gap between genders hasn’t budged from 23 cents (which means that for every dollar that a man comes home with, a woman will come home with $0.77) (Wallace). This wage gap has been debated by experts that it’s an individual’s choice to pick low-budget jobs, and that women and other lower-class citizens can make an easy decision to suddenly be qualified to work for a high-budget one (Wallace). Gender equality hasn’t necessarily been a major topic lately in the national media, but it has almost always been an issue in today’s society; even after a century after it became illegal to pay women less than men based on their gender …show more content…
But the gender pay equality issue hasn’t been publicized very much at all, even though it shows that we still aren’t giving everyone in our country an opportunity to live with the same freedoms, to be given the same thing for what we worked for (essentially). Paying women the same amount as men in the United States effects everyone, it establishes the foundation for a family, and it could create the opportunity of something better for the female gender group in the future. The wage gap is something that of a sexist act against women, for it decreases the real amount of labor that anyone puts forth. It’s an uneducated act to keep a restriction on someone’s salary just because of their gender; everyone is human and has the right to work for the same amount of
20 November 2013
The Wage Gap Between Men & Women
The wage gap between males and females in the United States is an example of discrimination and sexism, and it should be changed so that both genders can come home with an equal salary every year that is directly proportional to their labor. Even though it is true that high-paying jobs aren’t always available, even in the lower class, the pay for each gender isn’t equal. The wage gap, initially, should be eradicated in all of the economic classes.
Education is, and always has been, a defining factor in social status. Whether or not someone received a high school diploma or graduated college determines how high-paying their future job is going to be, or even …show more content…
On April 9, 1963, while signing the Equal Pay Act of 1963, President John F. Kennedy stated that the document would be the end of “unconscionable practice of paying female employees less wages than male employees for the same job” (Glynn). Afterwards, in 1996, the National Committee on Pay Equality marked April 20th as “Equal Pay Day” (Fitzpatrick). But the Act was proved wrong when in September of this year, the National Census Bureau released that from the years 2002 to 2012, the wage gap between genders hasn’t budged from 23 cents (which means that for every dollar that a man comes home with, a woman will come home with $0.77) (Wallace). This wage gap has been debated by experts that it’s an individual’s choice to pick low-budget jobs, and that women and other lower-class citizens can make an easy decision to suddenly be qualified to work for a high-budget one (Wallace). Gender equality hasn’t necessarily been a major topic lately in the national media, but it has almost always been an issue in today’s society; even after a century after it became illegal to pay women less than men based on their gender …show more content…
But the gender pay equality issue hasn’t been publicized very much at all, even though it shows that we still aren’t giving everyone in our country an opportunity to live with the same freedoms, to be given the same thing for what we worked for (essentially). Paying women the same amount as men in the United States effects everyone, it establishes the foundation for a family, and it could create the opportunity of something better for the female gender group in the future. The wage gap is something that of a sexist act against women, for it decreases the real amount of labor that anyone puts forth. It’s an uneducated act to keep a restriction on someone’s salary just because of their gender; everyone is human and has the right to work for the same amount of