Lilly Ledbetter

In 2009, Obama enacted an act called Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. This act allows employees to file lawsuits in regards to equal pay for up to 180 days after a unfair paycheck. Additionally, in 2013 President Obama enacted the Paycheck Fairness Act. Paycheck Fairness Act require companies that…

The feminist movement has changed American culture for the better. It is thanks to the hard work of many dedicated individuals that women enjoy the rights and freedoms they have today. If it weren’t for this concerted, effort women would still be kept to the home, unable to own property, obtain legal representation, control their rate of reproduction, or receive equal pay and wages. Even if women still aren’t on equal footing with men, they have made great societal progress through action and…

Every day, we all face discrimination and stereotypes. Stereotypes are generalizations made about a group of people that are usually negative. Stereotypes tend to affect some groups more than others; in particular, minorities face the most stereotyping and discrimination. Women face many stereotypes in the workplace that often lead to inequality and discrimination against women and greatly affect their potential in the long run. Prior to World War I and World War II, very few women were a part…

Inequality between genders is the collar that is strangling the economic growth of America. The U.S. government is the leash that is perceived to be helpful to women in the workplace but actually hinders their success by allowing them to struggle. The U.S. government created the Equal Pay Act to ensure equality and justice between genders, yet it fails to do so. The government needs to loosen their leash and ensure that laws that increase equality between genders in the workplace are strictly…

In American society dating back hundreds of years, women have always been viewed in the traditional viewpoint in the role the homemaker or caretaker. Even when women break away from the stereotypical role of the housewife and enter into the workforce, they still are not given an equal opportunity at acquiring a job that is seen to be as advancing or of higher recognition, as they would like to have. This unequal treatment in the workplace based off of gender, dates back as far as 1792 when Mary…

Fueled by legislation such as the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972, and most recently, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, many workplaces have developed formal hiring and promotion policies that limit the discretion that often leads to discrimination (Dencker 2008; Diprete and Soule 1988). With 70% of all small businesses operating under a female's…

A Trump supporting Facebook friend told Scott Mednick, "We suffered for eight years. Now it’s your turn.” Scott wrote a brilliant response asking how exactly his friend had suffered under Obama: "I am surprised you would wish suffering upon me. That of course is your right, I suppose. I do not wish harm on anyone. Your statement seems to continue the ‘US v THEM’ mentality. The election is over. It is important to get past campaigning and campaign rhetoric and get down to what is uniting, not…

Ninety five years ago, women gained the right to vote in the United States (Sprague). The ongoing fight for suffrage lasted nearly one hundred years before they were granted this right, with many of them risking everything from their social reputation to their lives for the belief of equality amongst genders. Women such as Harriot Stanton Blatch and Alice Paul, who protested at the White House for eighteen months straight after President Woodrow Wilson denied them support of the right to vote…

Throughout the history of the United States, minorities have been kept out of institutions and refused access to higher education. Affirmative Action started in 1965 in hopes to grant minorities more access to jobs , but has grown to also encompass ensuring that minorities are allowed admittance to higher education facilities. The goal was to equalize the population in terms of opportunity, and also be equitable in how people were treated. Since its implementation, many people have opposed it…

New York’s pay equity law closely resembles the new provisions in California’s law with a few key differences in the scope of comparison employees can make when bringing claims and available affirmative defenses. New York’s statute is more restrictive in the scope employees have to compare themselves to their counterparts to prove wage discrepancies: the law requires employees to perform jobs that necessitate “equal skill, effort and responsibility . . . under similar working conditions.”…