The gender wage gap has been a trending controversy over the past years. Women have been striving for equality that can be traced all the way back to 1776 and although the discrimination has weakened over the years, it still remains (Pay Scale). The idea that the gender wage gap does not exist is a hoax. Karin Agness Lips writes, “Using the statistic that women make 78 cents on the dollar as evidence of rampant discrimination has been debunked over and over again. That statistic doesn’t take into account a lot of choices that women and men make—education, years of experience and hours worked—that influence earnings” (3). This article is from Forbes magazine because there is not enough scientific evidence to support why the gender wage gap
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John F. Kennedy was the president to sign this act which ensured that men and women would be paid equally for similar work. However, the American Civil Liberties Union has been unable to go through with that act due to “ limited enforcement tools and inadequate remedies” (Pay Scale). Another attempt to legally close the wage gap the the Equal Rights Amendment. This would essentially grant women equal rights as men which do not just include pay, but this Amendment has been opposed enough to be shut down for the time being (Pay Scale). The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 is the first of this list that actually aided to the wage gap dilemma. This act allows employees, particularly women, to file a claim if they believe they are being discriminated against in the workplace in terms of wage (Pay Scale). Finally, The Paycheck Fairness Act in 2014 was the latest attempt to close the wage gap. Unfortunately, the proposal of the act lost in the Senate and was not passed (Pay Scale). Women have spent years fighting for …show more content…
According to Solving the Equation, the happiest job of 2014 was a database administrator followed by a quality assurance engineer (Corbett and Hill 8-13). In addition, occupations like mechanical engineering and computer programming have a slightly smaller wage gap with the pay of 90 cents per every man’s dollar (Corbett and Hill 12). All of these jobs are in the computing and engineering field, which are known to have a higher pay than other jobs. In the engineering field, women only make up 12% of it and only 26% of the computing workforce contain women (Corbett and Hill 12). “During the 2012-2013 school year, women earned 57% of bachelor’s degrees, 60% of master’s degrees and 51% of doctorate degrees” Gould explains in her article (Sheth and Gould). Women are earning a better education than men, but are being paid equal to the less educated or even less than the lower educated
John F. Kennedy was the president to sign this act which ensured that men and women would be paid equally for similar work. However, the American Civil Liberties Union has been unable to go through with that act due to “ limited enforcement tools and inadequate remedies” (Pay Scale). Another attempt to legally close the wage gap the the Equal Rights Amendment. This would essentially grant women equal rights as men which do not just include pay, but this Amendment has been opposed enough to be shut down for the time being (Pay Scale). The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 is the first of this list that actually aided to the wage gap dilemma. This act allows employees, particularly women, to file a claim if they believe they are being discriminated against in the workplace in terms of wage (Pay Scale). Finally, The Paycheck Fairness Act in 2014 was the latest attempt to close the wage gap. Unfortunately, the proposal of the act lost in the Senate and was not passed (Pay Scale). Women have spent years fighting for …show more content…
According to Solving the Equation, the happiest job of 2014 was a database administrator followed by a quality assurance engineer (Corbett and Hill 8-13). In addition, occupations like mechanical engineering and computer programming have a slightly smaller wage gap with the pay of 90 cents per every man’s dollar (Corbett and Hill 12). All of these jobs are in the computing and engineering field, which are known to have a higher pay than other jobs. In the engineering field, women only make up 12% of it and only 26% of the computing workforce contain women (Corbett and Hill 12). “During the 2012-2013 school year, women earned 57% of bachelor’s degrees, 60% of master’s degrees and 51% of doctorate degrees” Gould explains in her article (Sheth and Gould). Women are earning a better education than men, but are being paid equal to the less educated or even less than the lower educated