One issue that Americans are confronting is the imbalance amongst people, regardless of whether it is in regular daily existence or in an expert air. One stage that has been taken toward fairness was presented with the Equal Pay Act of 1963, signed by President John F. Kennedy. The Equal Pay Act was part of the fair labor standards act, It was worded to verify that women doing the same work as men would get compensation and various incidental advantages that were on a standard with those of men. This law was the main influencing the measure of openings for work accessible for ladies and enabling them to work in generally male ruled fields. The Equal Pay Act of 1963 Throughout history, women have been paid not as much as men have, even when …show more content…
At her encouraging, President Kennedy set up the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women to create recommendations for achieving equality. She assembled information, built coalitions, and won over opponents in a successful campaign to bring an Equal Pay Act before Congress. In February 1963, Esther Peterson submitted a draft charge of an Equal Pay Act to Congress on the sake of the Kennedy administration. The draft bill called for rising to pay for "comparable work." This state had proven to be risky within the past and after much discussion was eventually changed to the less controversial "equal work" which implied, "jobs requiring equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed under similar working conditions." With this change, supporters of the legislation were able to move the bill forward. Segments of the business community opposed the Equal Pay Act. These included the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Retail Merchants Association (NRMA) both of whom argued that women were more expensive to employ than men. This was supposedly due to added costs associated with female workers. Both organizations claimed that these costs were caused by higher rates of absenteeism and turnover among female workers and by state laws requiring special benefits such as rest periods, a longer time for meals, and separate toilets. To calm the business community's fears, Congress decided to make the Equal Pay Act an amendment to the already existing Fair Labor Standards Act . These standards labor such as basic minimum wage and overtime pay and affected most private and public employment. On June 10, 1963, the Equal Pay Act was passed by Congress declaring that women and men must receive equal pay for equal work. The Act was intended to prohibit discrimination due to sex in the