Are Women Worth as Much as Men? The excellent basketball coach, Coach John Wooden once said, “It’s not what you do its how you do it.” This is comparable to womens rights for pay because women can work just as hard as men and get the same exact job done in the same or even less. Women deserve to get paid just as much as men because they are also people, discrimination against women could take place, and women can also work long days just like men. Women are also considered to be people that can work extremely hard to make a living. There are many single women in this nation that work for their kids. There is a family that I know that is single and they are the Kauffold family. This is a family of now four and used to be five. …show more content…
This is a very judgemental country that has many ignorant people that think they are better than people, the majority if the ignorance is towards women because men think they are better than women. There are also many different kinds of ethnicities of people in the world that are men but you don’t see them not getting paid as much as other men, so why can’t women be treated the same way? The people paying for the job to be done should not be complaining if they have to pay a women more or not any since the job got done and they didn’t have to do it. There are fifty-one percent of people in the United States of America that feel like they are not being paid enough for the jobs the have to do. The discrimination and slavery ended years ago when the civil rights act was written when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person or when Martin Luther King JR. preached to get blacks the right. Now we are going through the same exact thing with women not getting maid as much as men like the african americans were treated different than the whites. The discrimination of women should not happen women work like men everyday to make a living so they should get paid everyday like men
Even in the modern society woman are constantly looked down. A quick comparison the average wage of a man and a woman shows that woman are still paid lower wages for the same amount of work.
On the contrary, women still get paid less than men. According to CNN Money, “men still make more than women in most professions -- considerably more in some occupations than others, according to a new study by the job search site Glassdoor”. Although we like to comfort ourselves with the idea that we have gotten our rightfully earned rights, we had not been given bathroom breaks until 1998. Furthermore, employees are still afraid to have a voice in the workforce. Employers establish rules that let laborers know that they are inferior.
If you believe women suffer systemic wage discrimination, read the new American Association of University Women (AAUW) study Graduating to a Pay Gap. Bypass the verbal sleights of hand and take a hard look at the numbers. Women are close to achieving the goal of equal pay for equal work. They may be there already.
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.
"United States women continue make 77 cents to every dollar that men earn," stated the movie Miss Representation (Newsom J.S., 2011). In a world so based on equality, why do women continue to be paid less than males? In my eyes this wage gap is caused by 3 reasons, the history of the male dominating world, the jobs males and females take, and discrimination.
According to “3 Reasons Men Deserve High Pay Than Women” by Jay Sun, most of the professional workfield are involved with men working at the jobs. The three reasons are “men suffer the vast majority of workplace fatalities and injuries, men work more hours than women, and men are more likely to work in “strategic” sectors of the economy” (Jay
Since the nineteen twenties women of America have been considered equal citizens of our country, and had to work hard in order to obtain that equality in the workplace. One may reconsider the success rate of females in America, and if they really have made it as far as popular belief may have it. Of course, American women can vote, can hold office, and they can work, which is more than can be said for some countries. But do both sexes really hold equal in the workplace regarding manners of salary and respect? Does the corporate executive world really take women seriously? These are some of the arguments made by women today that do not feel that they are being treated equal in the workplace. On the other hand, those who believe women are treated equally usually reason that differences balance out in statistics, things such as majority of teachers are women, and women also have a hold on the entrepreneur side of businesses. The voices that are still screaming come from an audience who feel that women still have a long way to go before achieving a status of total equality.
In Basketball the pay gap between men and women is ridiculous, the women playing in the WNBA are paid $38,000 and the Men playing in the NBA get paid $525,000, yes women only play a season of 34 games and the Men play an 82-game long season but its sill outrageous that women are paid one fifth of the lowest paid player in the NBA. Two years ago, 52 players in the NBA were paid more than the women in the WNBA. Men and Women both play the same basketball game for four 10-minute quarters and they should deserve equal
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
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.
Discrimination at work is a touchy issue. Most people, if not all, have experienced some sort or form of it and they ignored it, quit, or got fired from their job. Women tend to be more emotional than men and when women are judged and discriminated they are offended by it immediately. Also, the fact of women getting a lower income than men for the same job is almost unbelievable. It is very important to be concerned on 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 are making 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).
In the workplace, women do not receive the same benefits that men do. Some women do the same job, for the same amount of hours, and still do not receive the same pay for their work. Is there a specific reason behind this? No, it is just one of the many inequalities that goes on on the job. As pointed out in the essay by Susan Faludi, Blame it on Feminism, women earn less. The average women’s paycheck is twenty percent less than their male counterparts. Men with only high school education’s make more than some women who have graduated college. Most women are still working the traditional “female” jobs: secretaries, teachers, and nurses for example. Construction work, engineering, and doctor’s, are considered “out of our reach” and men’s jobs. Women are very capable of doing these jobs, but most times when applying for a “man’s job” are not taken seriously. American women are more likely not to receive health insurance and twice as likely not to draw pension then American men. They face the biggest gender-biased pay gap in the world.
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
“Women need no protection that men do not need. What we need are laws to protect working people, to guarantee them fair pay, safe working conditions, protection against sickness and layoffs, and provision for dignified, comfortable retirement” (Equal Rights for Women, 1969). Shirley Chisholm, the writer of Equal Rights for Women clearly states how women need what men have and they do not need special privileges (Equal R...
It uses to be women were only allowed to hold certain jobs. These jobs were usually in the home or doing domesticated work. These jobs were not always easy as they seem to be. Today women can do anything from a doctor or be a scientist. Also, we are still breaking into new areas such as being able to go into combat on the "line" or at least very close to it. Also very soon a woman will be The president of the United States. Hopefully when that happens or before we will also start receiving the same pay and benefits for doing the same job. Women only get paid about 75% as men do for doing the same job. This is discrimination, but almost always goes unnoticed. There are many ways to cover by requiring employees not to discuss their grade of pay. This is probably why it is very hard to prove.Also in many states as well as professions there may not be any regulations or enforcement requiring to publicly note the average wages for men and