If you go back in time, women were known to be housewives who took care of the children and household duties while their husbands went off to work. But, in modern times more women are going to college and going into careers men usually do. Now that women have more rights and are breaking the stereotype of being a housewife, they are now not getting paid the same amount as their fellow male colleagues.The more women get promoted the more the pay gap widens. Women don't ask for more money because they are afraid they will come off as annoying or they feel bad asking. Jennifer Lawrence was put in that situation when she found out her male co-stars were making more money than her and her other female costar Amy Adams. That shows that the pay gap …show more content…
One form of discrimination that takes place in the workplace. Women, who are as equally trained and educated, and have the same experience as men are not getting equal pay, because historically women have always stayed at home doing housework. The solution is women should be paid the same amount as men for doing the same …show more content…
Robert J. Samuelson says, “ What's worth recalling is that the flood of women into the labor force represents one of the great social and economic upheavals of the post-World war 2 era. In the early postwar years, gender roles were stark. Once women married, they mostly stayed home and took care of the kids. In 1947, women’s labor-force participation rate was 32 percent. Female college graduates were a tiny minority, and few women were doctors, lawyers, accountants, newspaper reporters, police officers or business managers.” He went on by saying “ By 2013, women's labor-force participation rate had nearly doubled by 57 percent. Women also earned 57 percent of the bachelor's degrees in 2011 and half the PhDs and first professional degrees.” The origin of the dramatic change could be from things like household appliances, which saved time; the opening of college for women, which opened more job opportunities and the rise of feminism, which helped women get rid of the housewife stereotype. The more women advance in their careers the more the pay gap widens. Even though women have advanced in certain careers such as higher paying jobs dominated by men, most women work in lower paying occupations such as health care, social work and education. Eileen Patten says, “ Women are about twice as likely as men to say they had been discriminated against at work because
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 ...
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
If I were to ask you why there is a pay gap, the most common answer I would get is this, “More women take time off to care for their families than men, and this explains their shortcomings in pay”. So then why, when comparing both men and women who have not taken time off, is there still a difference in pay? Like I said before, gender differences and industry choice can explain up to 50% of the gap. The “Study Counters Usual Explanations for Pay Gaps” article states that, “There is a greater concentration of women working within a particular industry that tends to pay less”. For example, women make up only 9% of workers in the high-paying legal and management occupations according to the article “The Complex Causes of the Gender Wage Gap” written by Barbara Wagner. (TALK ABOUT MOM) Nationally, women make less than men because there aren’t as many of us in as high paying of jobs as them. What I found was that the discrimination doesn’t lie in the amount of money women and men are being payed, the bias against women is in the occupation and the job market before she even applies for the position. Barbara Wagner wrote in the article “The Complex Causes of the Gender Wage Gap” that women are less likely to be accepted into education and training programs in non-traditional fields like agriculture, architecture, and engineering. She also wrote that
When women are actually given the same jobs as men, they may be paid the same but typically, they are not able to reach the higher positions in the company that men do. Even with their 77 cents to a man’s dollar, “women still tend to bear a larger responsibility for child care and other household matters within families” (Mazorelle). Women are not given the opportunity to earn as much as men, and they still have to take on a majority of the responsibilities of the household.... ... middle of paper ... ...
Satya Nadella once said, “We must ensure not only that everyone receives equal pay for equal work, but that they have the opportunity to do equal work.” It was found that women only earn seventy-nine percent of what men make in similar jobs. The gender pay gap has been in account for over fifty years, and yet it is still an issue today. Although businesses are required to practice fairness in compensation amongst all employees regardless of gender, age, or race this is not always the case. Businesses need to instill stricter policies against unequal pay to eliminate racial discrimination, reward and recognize performance and experience, and do away with the gender gap.
The 23 cent gap has fallen apart in how it was traditionally seen and the 5-7 cent gap is far more likely the cause of women being less likely to negotiate for higher pay. More research is still key to understanding what’s happening, however, and it needs to be explored why women respond to certain incentives, such as job satisfaction, more than men, or why women feel less incentive to negotiate for higher pay, or why each gender seems to choose a certain profession more than the other. It used to be that men and women were segregated into hunters and homesteaders but things have come a long way since the dark ages. Social stigmas and values evolve over time and will eventually become a thing of the past but for now, no physical force is holding someone back from following their dreams and it’s only fair if you want to be a stay at home dad or a petroleum engineer. Equality among genders is something that everybody can agree
Creating the idea that if this gap continues to remain constant, or even worse grow, woman will never be able to reach equal pay. A podcast, How the Gender Pay Gap Works, presents us with a critical study done in 2011 in which shows a twenty five year old white woman compared to a twenty five year old white male. In this study both twenty five year olds contained the same qualifications and job title, yet the woman made a significant five thousand dollars less a year. Essentially this means that by the time she makes it to sixty five she will have lost out on four hundred thirty thousand dollars. This outstanding number shines light on the existing problem with women being mistreated and paid in the workforce. Additionally, a woman would have to work a year more to make the same amount of money that a man made the previous year (How the Gender Pay Gap
Throughout the history of the world, discrimination in all forms has been a constant struggle, whether it is race, gender, religion, appearance or anything else that makes one person different from another, it is happening every day. One significant discrimination problem that is affecting many women takes place in the work place. As of recently the gender wage gap has become a major topic for discussion. The gender wage gap is the average difference between men and women aggregated hourly earnings. Women who are equally trained and educated, and with the same experience are getting paid way less than men. In 2015, female full time workers earned eighty cents for every dollar earned by men.
But sex-segregation does not really explain the overall gender wage gap. Women’s average educational attainment now exceeds that of men’s and as a result, women have been entering previously considered to be “masculine” occupational fields at growing rates. Even in the STEM fields, women are no longer underrepresented except for in computer sciences and engineering. However, gender wage gap is present at every level of the career ladder in every field. How and why does this
The first thing that factors in is that women are more likely to work in lower paying jobs including: retail trade, leisure and hospitality. There are not very many women who work in the three jobs with the highest wages: information services, mining and logging, and utilities (“Gender Pay Gap: Recent Trends”). According to the Council of Economic Advisors, “women are also slightly less likely than men to have access to paid leave and, perhaps as a result, are slightly more likely to take leave without pay.” Discrimination is another factor. Women may be influenced which job to choose base on discrimination, and it can cause women to leave their position (“Gender Pay Gap: Recent Trends”). According to the Council of Economic Advisors, there are less women who are receiving science and math degrees even though, in 2013, women earned 57 percent of all bachelor’s degree, 35 percent of which were in science, technology, engineering, and math fields. The level of education does not help the wage gap either, no matter what level of education women have there is still a pay gap (Dishman). The Council of Economic Advisors also says that “in general, women, even highly-educated women, are less likely to negotiate their first job offer than men. But even when women do negotiate, if the norms of negotiation and salary expectations are not transparent, they are likely to receive less than men.” A survey from
Gender discrimination is defined as prejudice against an individual due to his or her gender or sex. Discrimination against women has been occurring for years and continues to pose an issue today, especially in institutions such as the workforce. In the past, women were limited to very few rights; they were not permitted to vote and were considered as “property”. The only real jobs they had were housewives.and only a handful of women were in the labor force. In today’s society, women compose more than half of the workforce, yet they earn a significantly less amount compared to their male counterparts for completing the same tasks. Due to the subtleness of the issue, many still continue to be unaware of the discrimination which occurs. Though the issues regarding gender discrimination have gone through improvements recently, the issue at hand
Women are capable of doing the same jobs that men do. Many women do work in higher positioned jobs that are seen more as jobs for men, but just because they’re higher up doesn’t mean they get paid the same as the men doing their exact job. “High-achieving women are paid less than men even when they have similar levels of experience and are in the same fields,” (Bloomberg Businessweek). This means that women who have been doing the same job for the same amount of time as a man, earn less than him. Even a woman who was completely
For many years in United States, equal salary pay for women has been a major issue that women have been fighting for decades. This began back in World War II, when the National Labor Board urged equalize the salary rates for women with the same rates that males were getting of the same professions. (Rowen) Although, traditionally most women do not work to provide for there family and there are not so many independent women during World War II. After World War II more women lost their jobs to veterans returning to the workforce. Women in the workforce after the war have been discriminated ever since. The idea of women as weak and cannot perform there jobs
Due to various countries initiatives to shrink the wage inequality between men and women wages in the work force, the gap has narrowed, respectively, which may have helped form such opinion. However, stating that the gender pay gap does not exist in today’s society, anywhere, is completely unlikely. Seeing that the gap has loosened its grasp in the working world, in other countries, the gap between pay has widened or remained stagnant. One cannot help but wonder why the gap remains consistent, even with such substantial progress made in countries where the gap has decreased. Reasons as to why gender wage gap exist so heavily, slightly differs from country to country, but the overall effect from the wage disparity is wholly evident.
From the beginning of history and to this day women still get paid less than the average man, but why? Whoever said that women are incapable of good work performance? Whoever said that women do not have the same responsibilities to maintain? What really makes a women’s work inferior to men? The answer is nothing. Today, women are depended on just as much as men, and are capable of performing at their level. However, a full-time working woman earns only seventy-seven cents for every dollar a man makes. These days women make up half the workplace in our society; they work just as hard and for the same reasons. Women deserve to be paid at an equal rate as men because they are relied on to uphold the same responsibilities and are just as qualified to perform at a man’s level.