Essay On Equal Pay Day

Since the dawn of times, since the first man and woman were created and summoned by God to “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it”, discrimination of all forms has been a constant battle. Centuries later is still affecting the world extensively today. There are various ways discrimination can take place around the world. Whether it is discrimination of gender, race, appearance, religious beliefs…etc. it is still a sensitive issue happening every day. All of these types of discrimination have taken place throughout the years and have found some resolution in trying to better this world for the coming generation. Although progress has been made in trying to minimize discrimination, there are still certain issues that have been kept in the hide and are causing people pain. One of those issues takes place in every field that has women and men workers. Before they were granted to vote, women were treated as second-class citizens. They were not allowed to be educated and have a career, rather society expected them to get married and have children and that would be the end of it. Though there have been some modifications, …show more content…
This day is called equal pay day. In was first created in 1996. According to the article The Equal Pay Day Reality Check “Feminist groups and political leaders have set aside this day to protest the fact that women 's wages are, on average, 78 percent of men 's wages” (Sommers, Christina Hoff). The symbol of the equal pay day was and still is shine a light on how far women must work in a particular year to earn what men earned the previous year. For example: - In 2016 women must work to earn what men have earned in 2015. It is mind boggling that there is only one day from women to feel like they are worth being paid the same as men. The insane part about all of this is how there is only one day from the whole year for women to get paid at the same