Part 1: Describe and explain your persuasive strategies.
1 The purpose of this presentation is to change the attitude that men and women are treated equally in the workplace, when statistically women earn 77 cents to every dollar earned by men.
2 The thesis statement of this presentation is that the Equal Pay Act is not being honored in most workplaces.
3 Explain your strategies for Audience Analysis and Adaptation
My audience has five females including myself. The ages range from 15-54. There are three white females, one black or African American female, and one female that stated they are two or more races. All were born within the United States and believed that wealthy people should pay more in taxes. As a side note, the analysis stated
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Body I.
Main Point 1: In order to get a better grasp of what the Equal Pay Act is, we must also understand the Gender Pay Gap. With the right knowledge we can advocate for change effectively.
A. Sub Point A: The Equal Pay Act requires that men and women be given equal pay for equal work in the same establishment. The jobs do not need to be identical, but they must be substantially equal. It is job content, not job titles, that determines whether jobs are substantially equal.
B. Sub Point B: “The gender pay gap wage shows that a woman would earn roughly 73.7% to 77% of what a man would earn over their lifetime” (http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/epa.cfm). When controllable variables are accounted for, such as job position, total hours worked, number of children, and when unpaid leave is taken, the U.S. Department of Labor found in 2008 that the gap can be brought down from 23% to between 4.8% and 7.1%.
Transition (signpost, review, preview): Now that we have discussed what the Equal Pay Act and Gender Pay Gap is, let’s move on to our second point, what causes pay inequality in the
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Sub Point B: The second factor not all jobs are open to women. To this day women are still fighting the stereotype that men are the sole providers for the family and the women stay at home. “Over half of all women are concentrated in the broad categories of sales, clerical, and service jobs. Women can have a hard time breaking into the male-dominated jobs, as evidenced through Department of Labor audits of federal contractors. These audits found that over 2000 women were not hired based on their gender” (http://www.pay-equity.org/info-top10.html).
C. Sub Point C: The third factor is that companies and governments simply fail to enforce or even address the unfair practices. Companies may turn a blind eye hoping that if they don’t see it no one will. It is inevitable now that a company will be ousted if they are participating in the gender inequality because our society is become more focused on issues such as these and women are becoming more fearless on the issues.
The government needs to strengthen the current Equal Pay Act because it lacks overall. This act doesn’t help in legal cases because it makes the discrimination to hard to prove. The Equal Pay Act does not allow women to file class-action lawsuits, and causes overall no damage to this discriminatory
Throughout the world, discrimination in all forms has continued to be a constant struggle; whether it’s racial, gender based, religion, beliefs, appearance or anything that makes one person different from another, it’s an everyday occurrence. A major place that discrimination is occurring at is in the workplace. One of the largest problems discrimination issues is believed to be gender. Women, who have the same amount of experience as men are not getting paid at the same rate as men, these women also are equally trained and educated. According to the article Gender Pay, it was discovered in 2007 that a woman makes 81 cents for every dollar a man earns.(“Gender Pay”) . This shouldn’t be happening in today’s society for the fact the society lived in today is suppose to be more accepting. Men are viewed as being more popular, valuable and having higher powers than women. The Reason Discrimination is involved in the equal pay equal work is because of the significance it has to how some businesses pay their employees.
Because enforcement of the laws is complaint driven and most of the information needed to prove a complaint is held by employers, these laws lack the ability to completely rid America of discriminatory pay practices. In addition, the Equal Pay Act does not allow women to file class-action lawsuits, and it provides very insubstantial damages. Wage Secrecy Hurts Women Part of the problem is that wage data are largely kept secret in America, so women and minorities can be underpaid without knowing it. Employers frequently have policies that forbid workers from discussing their salaries, even though these policies are unfair and sometimes unlawful. In addition, because women often don't know what a job truly pays, she can undervalue herself when negotiating a new salary (and that can label her as an underachiever).
Though, they still face many issues and many walls that have to be broken down before they can be given the equal life opportunities that men are granted at birth (Lee). Feminism is still a prerequisite in the world today to battle against the iniquity in financial, social, and political aspects so gender equality can be achieved. Under the Equal Pay Act of 1863, the gender wage gap supposedly no longer exists, but the facts are that “as of 2012, women in the U.S. earn 77 cents to a man's dollar” (ProQuest Staff). Men try to justify this unjust statistic by saying that “wage gap isn't necessarily the result of discrimination” (ProQuest Staff). However, there is no logical reasoning behind it.
In my experience I have not dealt with The Equal Pay Act nor, was I educated enough to be aware of the detail that this act is consisted of. I was working for a well know profitable bank which I will not name or maybe I should. The situation was, as a top employee, I had more responsibilities than the other employees. The business consisted of both female and male, the ratio was one out of eight were males, therefore the women were dominating in employees and in management. The majority of employees were handling regular customer service calls. I myself dealt with Small Business, Home Equity, Consumer Loans, and the Spanish service calls. I received the same pay as the other employees and was not able to advance into management with the recognition of the extra duties that I was performing.
Women have faced gender wage discrimination for decades. The gender pay gap is the difference between what a male and a female earns. It happens when a man and a woman standing next to each other doing the same job for the same number of hours get paid different salaries. On average, full-time working- women earn just “77 cents for every dollar a man earn.” When you compare a woman and a man doing the same job, “the pay gap narrows to 81 percent (81%)” (Rosin). Fifty-one years ago, in order to stop the gender gap discrimination, Congress enacted the Equal Pay Act of 1963. The act states that all women should receive “equal pay for equal work”. Unfortunately, even in 2014 the gender pay gap persists and even at the highest echelons of the corporate; therefore, the equal pay act is a failure.
On June 10, 1963 President John F. Kennedy signed the historic Equal Pay Act of 1963 into federal law. The act was one of the first federal antidiscrimination laws to address specifically the gender wage gap, it became illegal to pay men and women a different salary if they are at the same place doing similar work. After the Equal Pay Act, it took forty four years for the gap to close from fifty nine cents to eighteen cents. Although the act was signed over fifty years ago, the gender wage gap remains a prominent issue throughout America. On average women’s pay is seventy seven cents of a man’s one dollar, with an even wider gap for women of color. African American women earn sixty four cents to a white man’s one dollar, while Latina and Hispanic women only earn fifty four cents. While the gap is not as bad as it once was, at the rate it is going now, less than half a penny a year, the will gap not close for another 124 years. Equal Pay Day is a national movement working towards closing this wage gap between men and women.
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 workplace. 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's aggregate hourly earnings. Women who are equally trained and educated, and with the same experience, are getting paid way less than men.
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
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.
The first law reacting to gender discrimination was the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which was an amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act. This law stated that gender pay discrimination was bad for business, being an inefficient use of human resources and creating conflict. The law puts forth that no business may give lower pay to one gender, when the jobs are equal. There are exclusions such as seniority, merit, and pay for quantity jobs.
The Equal Pay Act (part of the Fair Labor Standards Act), forbids employers to compensate women differently for jobs that are “substantially equal”, that is, almost identical. Traditionally, women have worked in different occupations than men; these occupations tend to be substantially different, pay less and confer less authority.
Even with the Equal Pay Act of 1963, it is not very effective, benefiting women in the workforce. There are studies showing that women can do the same job as men or even better. More women are also getting more degrees then men and are shown to be more dedicated in that job field. There are also huge corporate companies that are being ran by women CEO 's. So what does America have to do to help women of America to get equal pay? America has to push the senate to vote for the Paycheck Fairness Act in order for equal pay for women to happen. Without that bill, American women will continue to work hard for less pay compare to
Closing the wage gap between men and women is a continuing struggle today in nations all over the world. In many occupations, women are paid less overall than their male counterparts. One nation, however, is making strides to bring this disparity in wages into the light. British law will soon require large companies to publish information about the salaries paid to their male and female employees. While this is a great step forward in recognizing the gender pay gap, many women also face many other obstacles to getting equal pay, such as the “Mommy Tax” that reporter Ann Crittenden talks about in her piece of the same name (Kirk and Okazawa-Rey 337).
Women’s right to equal pay or gender pay gap has been a subject of discussion over the years in the united states, women perform similar jobs to men, but are paid
This act holds that as long as a job that a woman and man are involved in a job that requires equal skill, effort and responsibility, there is a requirement for equal pay. Generally, there are differences in pay for people of seniority, merit, quality, or quantity of production. However, this does not give way to say that this is valid for difference in gender pay. (Encyclopedia of Gender and Society). The New York Times’, “Let’s Expose the Gender Pay Gap”, states that researchers have found that women, one year out of college, earn 6.6 percent less than men do. In addition, women earn about 4,600 dollars less than that of their male classmates on average. According to the article, exposing top companies who are not paying their female employees equally will help bring attention, and hopefully resolution, to the