Feminist Research On Equal Pay For Women

Equal Pay for Women I am curious to know if women received the same pay as men would women work harder. I have always found it appalling that women are paid less than men. Which I believe women being paid less than men makes them want to want to work harder to earn more. But if women were equal to men would women still try to break barriers in the work place? And would they still work to the same standard as men? I plan to take a feminist perspective for this project. This can be viewed from a feminist perspective because the research being done is relevant to females. I also see this issue from a conflict perspective as well. Some men feel as if women should not even be in the work place and should be home makers. Also some men feel as …show more content…
And in that database I could look for research articles with studies done by other experts. There are a lot of experts doing research on women’s pay in the work. Some experts that I found are Heidi Hartmann, Ariane Hegewisch, and Jeffrey Hayes. They all are educated individuals with their Ph.D.’s so I trust that their research is thorough, good quality research. Some major news networks talk about the gender gap and there are some magazines that have articles about the gender gap between men and women, Such as New York magazine. One reference I could use for my topic could be a website called Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Another resource would be aauw.org the website was created by Kevin Miller. I really like Kevin’s website because he has reports you can download and his research reports that he has done have a variety of different variables. The last resource I would use would be www.feminist.com. There are different articles and stories written by women that can use when trying to look for someone else’s perspective on the …show more content…
I would distribute the surveys through the mail to different regions of the country. I would use a suburban area, urban city and country town from the one state of the different regions of the U.S. On my survey sheet I would have three questions the first one being “Do you agree or disagree that women would work harder if they made the same amount of money as men. The second question would be “Would you okay with making the same amount of money as the opposite sex?” and the last question would be “Should the government have equal pay for men and women?” There would be a yes or no check boxes and lines by the check boxes to explain why or why not. They would have two weeks to complete the survey and send it back in the mail to me. Also I would make sure to put on the survey to circle whether they are a male or a