The pay gap between men and women is a major issue with gender inequality.
Gender inequality can be defined as a type of unfair treatment because of one's gender, particularly a problem for working women getting equal pay to men. (Exciteeducation.com). This conflict affects people in different conditions all around the world. Even celebrities, like Ellen Pompeo who shared her experience of being affected by the pay gap to the Hollywood Reporter, just several years ago. "At one point, I asked for $5,000 more than him just on principle, because the show is Grey’s Anatomy and I’m Meredith Grey. They wouldn’t give it to me," Pompeo remembered being paid less than TV love interest, played by Patrick Dempsey. "And I could have walked away, so why didn’t I? It’s my show; I’m the number one. I’m sure I felt what a …show more content…
(Alex Heigl People.com). Many people don't realize they are getting treated unfairly with their pay in the workplace. This is a time when the president and congress has and needs to enforce the pay gap be closed. By releasing data about it they can do so. However, this also needs to be done on a employer level. By employees taking these wrong acts into their own hands and addressing what they notice to the employer. What the president does will motivate people to do this and close the gap permanently.There is a belief by Republicans who have voted down for the equal pay bill that sounds like this “There’s a disparity not because female engineers are making less than male engineers at the same company with comparable experience, the disparity exists because a female social worker makes less than a male engineer.” (the Republican National Committee). However, Dr. Golden a Harvard University labor economist and leading scholar on women and the economy argues, that most of the pay gap problems actually comes from the differences within occupations rather than between them and makes a bigger
Gender inequality can be defined as a type of unfair treatment because of one's gender, particularly a problem for working women getting equal pay to men. (Exciteeducation.com). This conflict affects people in different conditions all around the world. Even celebrities, like Ellen Pompeo who shared her experience of being affected by the pay gap to the Hollywood Reporter, just several years ago. "At one point, I asked for $5,000 more than him just on principle, because the show is Grey’s Anatomy and I’m Meredith Grey. They wouldn’t give it to me," Pompeo remembered being paid less than TV love interest, played by Patrick Dempsey. "And I could have walked away, so why didn’t I? It’s my show; I’m the number one. I’m sure I felt what a …show more content…
(Alex Heigl People.com). Many people don't realize they are getting treated unfairly with their pay in the workplace. This is a time when the president and congress has and needs to enforce the pay gap be closed. By releasing data about it they can do so. However, this also needs to be done on a employer level. By employees taking these wrong acts into their own hands and addressing what they notice to the employer. What the president does will motivate people to do this and close the gap permanently.There is a belief by Republicans who have voted down for the equal pay bill that sounds like this “There’s a disparity not because female engineers are making less than male engineers at the same company with comparable experience, the disparity exists because a female social worker makes less than a male engineer.” (the Republican National Committee). However, Dr. Golden a Harvard University labor economist and leading scholar on women and the economy argues, that most of the pay gap problems actually comes from the differences within occupations rather than between them and makes a bigger