Women's Pay Gap Analysis

In an article by Borgna Brunner and Beth Rowen, they talk a lot about the history of the pay gap and the inequality that women have faced with this issue. They also talk about how the pay gap is narrowing, but it is only narrowing at a very slow pace. In 1942, around the time of World War II, industries needed to be run by women, because most men had gone to fight in the war. Since there was a rise in the amount of women workers, the National Labor Board urged employers to voluntarily make adjustments to equalize the wage and salary rates paid to females with the rates paid to males, especially if the work was comparable in quality and quantity of work on the same tasks. Most employers failed to heed to this request, but they also pushed most …show more content…
The American Association of University Women has for more than a decade advocated passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act as a necessary update to the Equal Pay Act which has not seemed to work the way that it was intended. The main reason for trying to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act was to help close loopholes, strengthen incentives to prevent pay discrimination, and prohibit retaliation against workers who inquire about employers' wage practices or disclose their own wages. The Paycheck Fairness Act would require employers to show proof that wage gaps result from factors other than gender discrimination and make the government collect better data on wages while providing salary negotiation training for women. …show more content…
Recent conversations with female students in women centered universities highlight that pay equity is not just a women's issue, but that it is every person's issue. Some reasons why both men and women should work toward pay equity, closing the gender wage gap would result in significant economic growth, gender-based salary discrimination negatively affects regional competitiveness, gender-based salary discrimination negatively affects household earnings, in households where college-educated women are sole wage earners, and equal pay is an issue of fundamental fairness and an affirmation of equal economic rights. (Lowe)
Even though some members of the government have tried very hard at trying to lower the pay gap, many United States Republicans have down voted some equal pay bills that the government wants to put into place. This puts a burden on trying to lower the pay gap and this was evident in an article I read that shows some of the Republican Party members are trying to actually blame women for the pay gap