Final Paper - Gender Pay Gap What is gender pay gap? Cambridge English dictionary defines it as the difference between the amounts of money paid to women and men, often for doing the same work (Cambridge Dictionary,2015?). Workplace Gender Equality defines the gender pay gap as the difference between women and men’s average weekly full-time equivalent earnings, expressed as a percentage of men’s earnings (Workplace Gender Equality, November 2015).
Why do we have a problem with women and fair pay? This could be due to the gender pay gap being influenced by a number of interrelated work, family and societal factors, including stereotypes about the work women and men “should do” engage in the workforce (Workplace Gender Equality, 2015). Based …show more content…
Looking at the numbers, compared with salary information for white male workers, Asian American women’s salaries show the smallest pay gap at 90 percent of white men earnings, this gap was larger for Hispanic and Latina women, they were paid only 54 percent of what white men were paid (AAUW, 2015). The smaller gender pay gap among African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, and Native Hawaiians is due solely to the fact that those men of color were paid substantially less than non-Hispanic white men (AAUW, 2015). This article went on to talk about how the gender pay gap grows with age, and differences among older workers are considerably larger than gaps among younger workers, women typically earn about 90 percent of what men are paid until they hit 35 (AAUW, …show more content…
They want the government to make reporting on pay data mandatory, companies should pay attention to their data, women need to ask for more money, not blame their children or use them to ask for a pay increase, and companies need to start valuing women’s work. These five suggestions sound like a good beginning point. With the upcoming 2016 Presidential election, I’ve seen this topic come up numerous times. President Obama has often talked about the gender pay gap and future of his daughters. The Journal Online (2015), talked about how the pay gap has narrowed over the past 30 years, progress has largely stalled, adding fuel to the Democratic Party’s call for legislation to bring women’s pay into line with their male colleagues. We have a female running on the republican and democratic side, so this is an issue we will probably hear more of before we start voting next year (The Journal Online
Why do we have a problem with women and fair pay? This could be due to the gender pay gap being influenced by a number of interrelated work, family and societal factors, including stereotypes about the work women and men “should do” engage in the workforce (Workplace Gender Equality, 2015). Based …show more content…
Looking at the numbers, compared with salary information for white male workers, Asian American women’s salaries show the smallest pay gap at 90 percent of white men earnings, this gap was larger for Hispanic and Latina women, they were paid only 54 percent of what white men were paid (AAUW, 2015). The smaller gender pay gap among African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, and Native Hawaiians is due solely to the fact that those men of color were paid substantially less than non-Hispanic white men (AAUW, 2015). This article went on to talk about how the gender pay gap grows with age, and differences among older workers are considerably larger than gaps among younger workers, women typically earn about 90 percent of what men are paid until they hit 35 (AAUW, …show more content…
They want the government to make reporting on pay data mandatory, companies should pay attention to their data, women need to ask for more money, not blame their children or use them to ask for a pay increase, and companies need to start valuing women’s work. These five suggestions sound like a good beginning point. With the upcoming 2016 Presidential election, I’ve seen this topic come up numerous times. President Obama has often talked about the gender pay gap and future of his daughters. The Journal Online (2015), talked about how the pay gap has narrowed over the past 30 years, progress has largely stalled, adding fuel to the Democratic Party’s call for legislation to bring women’s pay into line with their male colleagues. We have a female running on the republican and democratic side, so this is an issue we will probably hear more of before we start voting next year (The Journal Online