Equal Rights amendment isn’t as serious as a debate as it was back in the 1900s, but there is still reason for this debate today. Some amendments similar to this already exist protecting the rights of U.S citizens, however not all rights are protected in the constitution. An amendment protecting all rights of each race, gender, and ethnicity would be a step in a new direction for everyone. As of now, without the equal right amendment, women are faced with pay inequality, legal impacts, and their workplace treatment. With an amendment the pay gap would lower significantly, court rulings would be more clear, and the workplace treatment would be the same throughout everyone. Women that are working full time are usually paid 79% of what men are …show more content…
Johnson. An Equal Right amendment was first passed by women political party in 1923 after the 19th amendment passed.. According to The Equal Rights Amendment it took four decades for a revival into congress.It seemed like it was going to be passed back in 1971 when it was approved by ⅔ vote from the House of Representatives in October of that year.It was then approved by the U.S Senate in March of 1972 and sent to the states. The first state to ratify this amendment was Hawaii, followed by many other states. Congress extended the seven year time limit to June 30th 1982 (http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/). . Support for the equal right amendment slowed down to a backlash of feminism. Even with the extended deadline this amendment was only ratified by 35 states, 3 short of the required limit for the constitution. Our government passed some laws to protect legal rights of women nowadays but is this really enough. Equal Rights may not be a big issue in the United States right now but it's a part of history that needs to be rewritten into the constitution to help the pay gap decrease, make court rulings even more clear and make workplace treatment the same for every …show more content…
The pay gap will take over 100 years to close in a statement made by Catherine Hill, Ph.D “The pay gap has barely budged in a decade. At the current rate, the gap won’t close for more than 100 years.” (American Association Of University Women,2015). The pay gap for women is at 21%, which means to every dollar a man makes there's women making 79 cents. People might not think 79 cents is that much of a difference but according to National Women's Law Center the pay gap is even higher for women of color. National Women’s Law center goes on to say “The wage gap typically translates into more than $10,000 per year in lost earnings for women.” (http://nwlc.org/issue/equal-pay-and-the-wage-gap/). Many careers women are faced with a few cents less to every man's dollar, below shows a few of these gaps in more women dominated jobs. Earning from a range of 4 cents less to 16 cents less compared to men.With an equal rights amendment we can start closing the gap a lot sooner than our lifetime,giving women better opportunities to make more per year than what they make now without the
In 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment was drafted by Alice Paul and subsequently introduced to Congress. Paul and the National Organization for Women began campaigning for its passage in 1967. In 1972, Congress passed the ERA and the states began to evaluate it for ratification, with a seven-year deadline. It garnered the support of 22 states in the first year, but the level of support slowly dwindled as time went on. The opposition against the ERA was headed by Phyllis Schlafly, the leader of Stop ERA. Opponents were effective in persuading states to abando...
Insurance is more expensive for women. Women must serve more time for crimes than men. According to this document there are about 1,795 laws that are against women’s rights as people. Equal rights amendment will bring all sorts of rights for women. According to this document It will help stop discrimination about sex, allow women to have their own credit and benefits, become a legal person under law, and stop law from discriminating against women. This document is important because it shows how far women's rights have come since the 1970s. Women now have the right to get a credit card in their own name. Women have the right to hold public office. Women can now serve in the military and they can also do so much more.The equal rights amendment was the stepping stool for women to achieve rights and freedoms. Throughout American history we see different groups longing to have the stake at American Freedom. Women have had a hard journey to make all the progress they have. This document is not only important because we can see
In addition, women are paid less than men for the same type of work. According to Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg mentions that women were paid fifty-nine cents for every dollar men were paid in 1996, but women protested to raise the compensation to seventy-seven cents (6). This means that even though a woman and a man perform the same work such as an engineer does, both do the same assignments and have the same responsibilities in the technology place, men are paid twenty three cents more than women. Moreover, women suffer from “gender discount” which means women have to pay for being part of the workplace or society ...
Federal laws and regulations contain many loopholes, are inconsistently interpreted and may be repealed outright (NOW 1). Many supporters claim the Equal Rights Amendment is needed "to clarify law for the lower courts, whose decisions still reflect confusion and inconsistency about how to deal with sex discrimination claims (Francis 2). There is a supporting theory argument that "an amendment to equality would absolutely shift the burden away from those fighting discrimination and place it where it belongs, on those that deserve it.... ... middle of paper ... ...
Nearly half of the labor force and breadwinners are women. More women are working in career fields and positions traditionally held by men. When women are not paid fairly, not only do they suffer, but so do their families. According to current research, “Despite passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which requires that men and women in the same work place be given equal pay for equal work, the "gender gap" in pay persists. Full-time women workers’ earnings are only about 77 percent of their male counterparts’ earnings. The pay gap is even greater for African-American and Latina women, with African-American women earning 64 cents and Latina women earning 56 cents for every dollar earned by a Caucasian
There is a pay gap between men and women in the U.S. The pay gap affects women of all educations levels, and backgrounds. But white men are the largest demographic in labor forces so they possibly favor each other as opposed to women. The graph didn’t specify the type of jobs, or whether they were working parts time or fulltime. But in 2016, women working full time in the U.S. were paid 80% of what men were getting paid. There are some occupations that have not reached the equity but some have like retail, banking and real
Equal pay is a family issue. Women are a huge part of the United States labor force and they are working in positions in fields that are largely dominated by men. When a woman is not paid fairly they do not suffer alone their entire family suffers. To make sure there is a change people most start voting for more wage equality legislation and for the younger population that cannot vote yet they can help the change by speaking out against the wage gap since they are the generation of technology.
When the Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced, in 1923, it was just a few years after the 19th amendment had been passed. It continued to be reintroduced every year for the next 48 years without any success. The ERA had no major union backing it until the 1970’s, it lacked the support of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, and even the National Organization for Women did not endorse the ERA at its founding. In The fact that the Equal Rights Amendment was introduced every year for decades shows how persistent women’s rights activists throughout the 20th century in their pursuit of legal equality
Immediately after its passage by the Senate the Suffrage Amendment was signed. Guest was limited to representatives of that National American Woman Suffrage Association. Women have the same rights as men, because of the 19th Amendment. The 19th Amendment was formed in 1878, but didn’t pass until 1920. For 70 years, women fought for this law to pass. Women were treated as second class citizens. Women wanted the same rights as men, regarding their gender. August 26th is the anniversary date of the Nineteenth Amendment. It is called Women’s Equality Day.. The Amendment was brought to congress over women suffrage. These women fought for their rights for 70 years. Finally getting the amendment ratified on August 18, 1920.
Today, you see women working in large businesses and think nothing of it. Before women had the rights they do today, you wouldn’t see them in large jobs, on television, in movies, or selling and buying property. Women have the rights that they do because of the hard work of many important women, Women’s Rights Conventions, the 19th Amendment, and many other important processes that worked toward women having the same rights as men.
This was true in the 1940’s, and it’s still a relevant issue today. Then, it was rare for women to earn even slightly more than fifty cents to every man’s dollar. Now, the average woman earns anywhere from sixty to eighty percent of a man’s salary for the exact same job. Ranges vary depending on the specific career field. However, women of minorities remain stuck in injustice, systematic trends.
One problem that Americans are facing is the inequality between men and women, whether it is in everyday life or in a professional atmosphere. One step that has been taken toward equality was introduced with the Equal Pay Act of 1963, signed by President John F. Kennedy. This law was the first affecting the amount of job opportunities available for women and allowing them to work in traditionally male dominated fields. On the outside, this would sound like a solution where nothing could possibly go wrong, but it is not.
First, someone could potentially argue that women have already achieved a level close to equality through the many efforts made to achieve it and the ERA would be pointless at this stage, but that is not really correct. One person writes, “True women’s liberation does not mean merely seeking equality within a masculine world, but liberating the divine feminine aspects of a woman's personality and using them for the benefit of humankind” (Document C). This quote demonstrates that true equality should not be aiming for the level that men are on, but liberating women and providing them with just as much individual power as men. The sexes should be more like two halves of a single whole rather than one attempting to live up to the other in order for it to be actual equality. Because of this, the Equal Rights Amendment is still very relevant and a valuable part of the journey to that point in our society. Next, even if one acknowledges that the ERA could still be useful to reach equality they may claim that the government should not have the responsibility of solving this issue. Addressing societal issues, William D. Eggers and Paul Macmillan state, “Whose job is it to solve these problems? For decades, the answer to that question has been simple: government. Until relatively recently, governments provided for the public good…” (Document F). This is about how the Government is supposed to provide for its people and their interests. This article talks about how the government is not the only thing involved in bringing change but play a large part. For this reason, while women have and will continue to battle for equal rights, the government's approval of the ERA would play a very large part in assisting the cause. These pieces of evidence show why it is still crucial to set the Equal Rights Amendment in order to achieve the goal
It is very important to be concerned about the issue because it is constantly increasing throughout the United States. It upsets me that women are paid less than men because women have the same ability and work ethic as men do, but they are looked at differently. According to AAUW, women make 77 percent of what men make. This rate hasn’t changed since 2002 (Hill, 2013). Statistics show that women will never make as much as men due to the thought of never being comparable to men (Williams, 2013).
She argued that the ERA would bring changes to women in America that nobody wanted. Despite her protests, feminist leaders addressed the legislature and argued in support of the ERA, and it was approved by the House in 1970 then in 1972 by the Senate also. The amendment was ratified by thirty of the thirty-eight states by 1973 (Ushistory.org [57c]). Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller is considered the first major feminist work in the United States and is often compared to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.