Should Women Get Paid Less Than Men

We are all human;regardless of your race, religion, beliefs, or gender. Therefore, gender shouldn't define what you choose to do with your life. Today, women make up approximately half of the workforce, so why should they get paid less than men? Typically, women are more qualified with more college and graduate degrees than men. Yet, there is a twenty-one cent wage gap due to gender. America claims to have “equal rights” but women are treated poorly in the workforce. The most unfair effect to sexual discrimination is unfair wage; women should have the same privileges as men.
Women are approximately half of the workforce, but they don’t get the same opportunities as men. They are typically placed into female-dominated jobs. These jobs consist of teaching, nursing, social work, cleaning, and administrative or secretarial positions. A study conducted by the non-profit group, Catalyst, shows that “ Women around the globe are blocked from advancing in their careers because of unequal access to high visibility jobs and international experience”. Women can’t get the jobs men want, they must choose something that they are needed to do while men get to do as they want. There is a sexist double standard regarding career choices for a woman in …show more content…
In 2014, a study showed that a woman makes seventy-nine cents for every dollar a man makes. This is a wage gap of twenty-one cents, because of gender. Women with better credentials than men, are getting paid less. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, if the current trends continue, women will not have equal pay until 2059. That is in forty-three years. Women work just as hard, as for in some cases, harder than men, and for what? To get paid twenty-one cents less? Those twenty-one cents become dollars, tens of hundreds of thousands of dollars, that they don’t receive because of their gender. Women are practically being robbed money from this