This is Kiya Townsend I am a 14 year old student attending Northview High School growing up in Grand Rapids MI. I am writing to you to address gender wage gaps. It is important that I talk to you about gender wage gap, because for me being a woman I see no hope for my career. Wage gap is something that most women at one point have to face. It is unfair women get paid less when they do the exact same jobs as men do. Gender should not affect how much one person should get paid.
There is not one country in the world where women and men earn as much as men. Equal pay for equal work, it sounds so simple but it's hard to believe it’s almost 2017 and gender wage gap is still such a major issue. For every $1.00 a man earns a average white woman earns 79 cents. Did you know women get paid 20% less than a typical man earns, that's a $10,470 difference yearly between the two pays. Lower or middle class women can not afford to …show more content…
The wage gap increases with age. The wage gap between women and men ages of 25-34 is 83.8%. Women between 35-44 make 64.7% of what men make. Women between 45-54 are paid only 63.7.8% for every man’s dollar, and women 55-64 years of age face a wage gap of 59.6%. So over all the wage gap can affect anyone, but not equally.
As may not everyone might think gender wage gap is a problem there are several sides. People don't want to do anything about it, they don’t know how or they do not care because it does not affect them. Another problem is women do not know there is a difference between their pay because of workspace laws that regulate discussing pay checks with fellow colleague workers. Some people still believe that women can't do what men do and that they can’t work as hard and do the same
There is not one country in the world where women and men earn as much as men. Equal pay for equal work, it sounds so simple but it's hard to believe it’s almost 2017 and gender wage gap is still such a major issue. For every $1.00 a man earns a average white woman earns 79 cents. Did you know women get paid 20% less than a typical man earns, that's a $10,470 difference yearly between the two pays. Lower or middle class women can not afford to …show more content…
The wage gap increases with age. The wage gap between women and men ages of 25-34 is 83.8%. Women between 35-44 make 64.7% of what men make. Women between 45-54 are paid only 63.7.8% for every man’s dollar, and women 55-64 years of age face a wage gap of 59.6%. So over all the wage gap can affect anyone, but not equally.
As may not everyone might think gender wage gap is a problem there are several sides. People don't want to do anything about it, they don’t know how or they do not care because it does not affect them. Another problem is women do not know there is a difference between their pay because of workspace laws that regulate discussing pay checks with fellow colleague workers. Some people still believe that women can't do what men do and that they can’t work as hard and do the same