Essay On Women Equal Pay

In society there are many stereotypical roles that have developed in our culture. The key entity to remember about stereotypes is that they do not apply to all, but are just a way for people to come to judgements faster (Brewer). Unfortunately, these stereotypes, particularly those describing women have hindered their ability to be treated equally to men. Many of these stereotypes have to do with the work place and home life. Men are expected to be the providers of the family, and partake in more hands on work. Women on the other hand are expected to stay at home, raise the family, and maintain the household (Brewer). The workplace is one area where there is still a lack of equality and treatment. One area where this mistreatment is most obvious is the gender wage gap. In a publication by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, the gender wage gap currently is a woman will make 80 cents to every dollar a man makes. The Institute also claims that if the rate of pay increases the way it has since 1960 it will take until 2059 for men and women to begin making equal earnings (Hegewisch). Women have been fighting for years for equal pay and there …show more content…
Yes the WNBA is the female counter part, but the league is tiny compared to the NBA. The WNBA cannot afford to pay its athletes like the NBA does because it does not produce the revenue or have the exposure the NBA has. The WNBA and NBA cannot be compared because the two don’t even run during the same season. When the WNBA was in the beginning stages of the league the NBA officials felt their WNBA counterpart was unable to share the arena with the team since it would put two basketball teams in one arena (Leslie). Unfortunately this argument seems to be a failure since many NBA teams have shared their arenas with NHL teams whose season runs at the same time as the NBA. These NBA teams also run their seasons with other events sych as