Equal pay for women

Australian women have fought for the right to equal pay since the early 1900’s. In 1948, the value of equal pay for equal work was acknowledged in the Universal Declaration of Human rights1. The gender pay gap is the difference between the average of men and women’s’ earnings, displayed as a percentage of male earnings1. The pay gap between genders is currently at 17.5%2. This is despite the small fluxes over time, this has not changed in 20 years, the gender pay gap was small in 1994 at the…

with wages between men and women. Women have been fighting, since the 1920s, to be considered equal to men, yet they are still not being paid the same amount as them. “U.S. Census data from 2015 shows a dramatic wage gap between men and women in median annual pay: American women earn, on average, only 79 cents for every dollar that men make” ("Every Office Needs a 79 Percent Clock") For women who are Hispanic or black, this wage gap is far worse. Hispanic and black women make, “only 55 cents and…

Equal Pay for Equal Work Introduction Is it really right that women are not paid equally to men? Women should be entitled to proper pay for equal work they do. In “2014 the typical woman working full time all year in the U.S. earned 79% of what the typical man earned working full time all year” (Grimshaw, 2014). “Women make up nearly ½ of the U.S. Labor force and there are a growing number of bread winners within their families” (Soyars, 2014). More women are also working positions and fields…

Although the gap can be experienced at any age, the gap increases with age (2). Job choice is a contributing factor in the composition of the gender wage gap. “Even women in highly compensated careers such as law and investment banking are more likely to choose pathways within those careers that allow more family time”(10). Women have characteristically had less…

was to achieve equal rights. Many believed that their goal had been reached when women gained the right to vote. However, women were far from being equal to men. Women had demands for the same job opportunities as men and for equal pay. The women were not going to let these goals go at all, in fact, they would fight many battles for their beliefs. In 1963, Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique which focused on the problems that women faced. The National Organization for Women (NOW)…

reasons to support equal pay for equal work are endless, the amount of people with the ability to find a fault to support their sexist views are shocking. One reason that many of those individual believe that there should not be equal work for equal pay is that people who are not paid equally do not try hard enough to raise their pay. Not only do most people work in an environment that limits the discussion of pay, but many women get penalized when attempting to negotiate for higher pay. In…

Since 1920, American women have advocated for their rights as citizens such as the right to vote, to hold public office, to enter into legal contracts, to have equal rights in family law, to work, and the right to fair wages or equal pay. Throughout time our culture has created great advancements for women’s rights especially in the work place for instance the implication of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which prohibits employers from paying different wages for males and females for the same work.…

John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act and put an end to an “unconscionable practice of paying female employees less wages than male employees for doing the same job” (Snow & Snow, 2016). The Equal Pay Act was “the first national labor standard to address the practice of women getting paid less than men simply because they were women” (Task Force, 2013). According to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, The Equal Pay Act requires that equal wages be paid to men and women who perform jobs…

rights in the past and how women stood up to discrimination in the workplace in the past. The majority of people in our society, who hear about those events, assume that those things are fixed and that women have equal rights, but that is far from reality. We need to let go of the past and focus on the problem that is set before us in the present times, women do not receive equal treatment in the workplace. Women get discriminated against in many different kinds of ways. Women get…

Before the 1940’s, women in the workplace was uncommon and frowned upon; women were to be housewives and specifically designated to the home, until the start of WWII. Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon has forever shaped and changed the role of women in society. During WWII Rosie represented the women that helped in shipyards while the men of the country were out fighting in the war; this still being a time where it’s uncommon for a woman to even be in the workplace. This has given society a…