Within the past century, the United States of America has been the battle ground for many protests for equality. The fight for ethnic equality has been won, and marriage equality is gaining support in states throughout the nation. In times of change, there is one type of equality that is not given much thought by the American public, gender equality; specifically, pay discrimination. This inequality is solely based on luck, and something as uncontrollable as gender should not determine someone’s earnings, but rather it should be determined by their performance in the workplace and aspects of their lives they can control. Pay discrimination based on gender has been prominent throughout America’s history. With the birth of the nation came along
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Despite their gender, everyone requires three very basic things to survive; being food, water, and shelter. These necessities cost the same for both men and women, so by paying women less than men for doing the same work, they are then required to survive with less money to buy their essentials. In Eileen Patten’s article, On Equal Pay Day, Key Facts about the Gender Pay Gap, she states “according to the White House, full-time working women earn 77% of what their male counterparts earn.” The 23 cents a woman loses compared to every dollar a man earns adds up over the course of a year, but the pay gap was not always this narrow. In 1980 women between the ages of 25 and 34 made only 67 cents for every dollar their male counterparts earned (Patten). In the early 1900s, there were not as many families with both a husband and wife bringing in an income as there are is today’s society. As people are paid more, the prices of homes, food, electricity, and many other commodities increase. Families want more money to pay for vacations, new cars, phone upgrades, etc., which is why now both men and women see the need for equal pay. Approximately 72% of women and 61% of men agree America “needs to continue making changes to give men and women equality in the workplace …show more content…
Andrew Latus compares the works on moral luck of two philosophers, Thomas Nagel and Bernard Williams, well in his paper, Moral Luck. Williams and Nagel had similar views on moral luck, Williams believed that “it would be best to abandon the notion of morality altogether,” and replace it with what he called the “ethical.” This is due to the dilemma he presents dealing with morality: either there is luck involved with moral value, or it is not the “supreme sort of value” (Latus). He argues that luck may give someone a life set up for success or failure, but that does not determine the quality of the person morally. As for Nagel, he primarily focuses on who is delegated blame due to an event out of anyone’s control. He believes people should neither be praised nor punished for their luckiness or unluckiness. He states this as an intuition shared about morality: “prior to reflection it is intuitively plausible that people cannot be morally assessed for what is not their fault, or for what is due to factors beyond their control”
Despite their gender, everyone requires three very basic things to survive; being food, water, and shelter. These necessities cost the same for both men and women, so by paying women less than men for doing the same work, they are then required to survive with less money to buy their essentials. In Eileen Patten’s article, On Equal Pay Day, Key Facts about the Gender Pay Gap, she states “according to the White House, full-time working women earn 77% of what their male counterparts earn.” The 23 cents a woman loses compared to every dollar a man earns adds up over the course of a year, but the pay gap was not always this narrow. In 1980 women between the ages of 25 and 34 made only 67 cents for every dollar their male counterparts earned (Patten). In the early 1900s, there were not as many families with both a husband and wife bringing in an income as there are is today’s society. As people are paid more, the prices of homes, food, electricity, and many other commodities increase. Families want more money to pay for vacations, new cars, phone upgrades, etc., which is why now both men and women see the need for equal pay. Approximately 72% of women and 61% of men agree America “needs to continue making changes to give men and women equality in the workplace …show more content…
Andrew Latus compares the works on moral luck of two philosophers, Thomas Nagel and Bernard Williams, well in his paper, Moral Luck. Williams and Nagel had similar views on moral luck, Williams believed that “it would be best to abandon the notion of morality altogether,” and replace it with what he called the “ethical.” This is due to the dilemma he presents dealing with morality: either there is luck involved with moral value, or it is not the “supreme sort of value” (Latus). He argues that luck may give someone a life set up for success or failure, but that does not determine the quality of the person morally. As for Nagel, he primarily focuses on who is delegated blame due to an event out of anyone’s control. He believes people should neither be praised nor punished for their luckiness or unluckiness. He states this as an intuition shared about morality: “prior to reflection it is intuitively plausible that people cannot be morally assessed for what is not their fault, or for what is due to factors beyond their control”