Equal pay for women

against women with men leading the charge. Men expected to be the breadwinners of the family while women were expected to stay at home for cooking and cleaning. However, in the 19th century, this seemed to have changed. Women started to gather in unison, in order to stop this ideal of “weak women” and to have equality for all genders. These women, also known as the suffragettes, focused on women inequalities, primarily voting, and with their primary goal in mind, their odyssey began with women…

Despite all of the Governments attempts to resolve this issue, we still have a significant wage gap. Which is what makes the question above so perplexing. With the amount of female breadwinners increasing, such a pay discrepancy could hurt our consumer driven economy (WB 1), thus managing this issue is vital for a growing economy. This problem continues to be prevalent for two reasons: one reason being tradition, and the second the exploitation of tradition. Both factors appear to be the cause…

willing to fight for equal rights? Are they honest? Are they passionate about what they’re fighting for? We are the future, the rising generation. We should not have to fight for civil rights or equal pay. Equality should already be part of our everyday lives, because no one is the same, but everyone deserves to be equal and respected. With Equality, Climate Change, and Immigration, these topics are some of many Bernie…

One form of discrimination that is apparent in almost all women holding jobs, is the disparities of salaries between males and females (Bruce et al 9). Women in the medical and nursing field are paid on average 5,000 dollars less than males are (Maier). The wage gap widens with specific professions within the medical field. For example, males in the cardiology field are paid 6,000 dollars more than women in the same field (Maier) A study was conducted within female medical holding…

When it comes to rights on children I fully believe that there should be equal rights when it comes to deciding on whether the child should be placed into adoption. As they say it takes two to tango and if that tango results in a pregnancy I believe that men and women should have equal rights in the decision on whether they should put the child up for adoption. Like what we read in the articles there has been cases though that have shown us that men’s rights are not equally shared. As a woman, I…

“men make more money than women doing the same job, even though, in 2015 women held 70% of jobs” (Flanders np); however, one could argue that in recent years female labor force participation is not as high as male labor participation and that is why women do not make as much as men (Associated Press NP). Yet, during WWI and WWII, women were the ones that were in the factories making guns and bombs, they were also tending to the farms (Macdonald 16). Women deserve equal pay just as much as men…

low hill there is the grave of Susan B. Anthony a leader of the movement for women’s suffrage who lived about three miles away. On Tuesday a line of hundreds of people who came here to pay their respects. They left notes of thanks to a woman who was arrested when she dared to vote and who did not live to see women granted that right. her grave stone was cover in stickers of “I voted.” Lovely Warren, the mayor of Rochester and…

involvement in the Equal Rights Amendment and was the founder of many Women’s groups, she also had a past as a playboy bunny and this sparked another debate about how women’s bodies, and the way they wanted to dress became political issues, but she always present herself as a poised and articulate lady. (Gurjot Sidhu,2013) The fact that today we as women can choose what we wear can be attributed to the second wave of feminism. Fashion and feminism are both interweaved and we as modern women…

79%. This is actually a statistic for full-time working women in the United States as of Fall 2015. The biggest issue here isn’t a loss of 21%, but gender equality, also known as feminism, the theory of gender equality on social, political, and economical levels. We need to be a feminist nation, truly believing in equality and acting upon it. By no means is it my intent to preach that women are more important than men, but they should be equal, right? Statistics from Catalyst, show…

important to define feminism. Whenever we discuss feminism often or not, patriarchy is brought to the table. Looking through the lenses of women today; we notice different situations because of the diversity among ourselves (women in this case). Skin color, gender, sexual orientation, religion and nationality all play a huge role in the discussion of what connects women to each other. We will be taking a look at how patriarchy infiltrates most of the legal, social and political channels. As most…