After years of fighting for equality in America, inequality is still the norm. Inequality still exists in the workplace because of sex, race, and education. The question to be answered is why does inequality still such a problem in a country that was built off the premise of equality. One of the largest inequalities that face the workplace is pay gaps between genders. Women and men are still paid differing salaries for the same professions. One of the beliefs that continue to contribute to this pay gap is that men believe that women cannot perform the same labor that they do. “Professors led by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Sredhari Desai found that married men in ‘traditional’ marriages (they are the sole breadwinners
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The wage gap that most people believe is true is that white men get paid the most and black women get paid the least, which is not true. From the highest paid to the lowest paid is, white men, white women, black men, black women, Hispanic men, to Hispanic women. Which is not what most people are made to believe, and even shocked me that Hispanics were the least paid. “When you look at participation rates over the same 40 years, Hispanic men work more often than white men, who consistently work more than black men. Among women, the trend has been the mirror opposite and just as unchanging. Black women have consistently worked more often than white women, who have consistently worked more often than Hispanic women.” Said Derek Thompson in the Article “The Workforce Is Even More Divided by Race Than You Think.” (Thompson, par 2) I asked myself “why this that race is is such a big factor when it comes to pay?” I just couldn’t seem to find or come up with an answer because it’s really not fair. The thing that I believe is making it still such a big problem is discrimination. We all know that America is still not equal to this day, and pay is one of the things that is very unequal. Research shows that in 2013, men and women had the same percentage of workers between 16 – 24 years of age (8.7%) – but the percentage varied much more widely by race/ethnicity. Hispanics, the group with the lowest wages in the chart above, have the highest percentage (12.4%) of workers between 16 – 24 years of age. Asians, who have the highest earning power, have the lowest percentage (6.5%) of workers between 16 – 24 years of age. (Ashton, Para
The wage gap that most people believe is true is that white men get paid the most and black women get paid the least, which is not true. From the highest paid to the lowest paid is, white men, white women, black men, black women, Hispanic men, to Hispanic women. Which is not what most people are made to believe, and even shocked me that Hispanics were the least paid. “When you look at participation rates over the same 40 years, Hispanic men work more often than white men, who consistently work more than black men. Among women, the trend has been the mirror opposite and just as unchanging. Black women have consistently worked more often than white women, who have consistently worked more often than Hispanic women.” Said Derek Thompson in the Article “The Workforce Is Even More Divided by Race Than You Think.” (Thompson, par 2) I asked myself “why this that race is is such a big factor when it comes to pay?” I just couldn’t seem to find or come up with an answer because it’s really not fair. The thing that I believe is making it still such a big problem is discrimination. We all know that America is still not equal to this day, and pay is one of the things that is very unequal. Research shows that in 2013, men and women had the same percentage of workers between 16 – 24 years of age (8.7%) – but the percentage varied much more widely by race/ethnicity. Hispanics, the group with the lowest wages in the chart above, have the highest percentage (12.4%) of workers between 16 – 24 years of age. Asians, who have the highest earning power, have the lowest percentage (6.5%) of workers between 16 – 24 years of age. (Ashton, Para