Equal Pay Act of 1963 Has Dissolved 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 still exist. Decades of research shows that no matter how you evaluate the data, there remains a pay gap, even after factoring in the kind of work people do, or qualifications such as education and experience, there is good evidence that discrimination contributes to the persistent pay disparity between men and women. In other words, pay discrimination is a real and persistent problem that continues to shortchange American women and their families The Problem Facing Woman in the United States Women still are not receiving equal pay for equal work, let alone equal pay for work of equal value. This disparity not only affects women’s spending power, it penalizes their retirement security by creating gaps in Social Security and pensions. For full-time, year-round workers, women are paid on average only 77 percent of what men are paid; for women of color, the gap is significantly wider. These …show more content…
Not only is it the right thing to do, it helps every American family make it work. The world has changed, and our rules need to sprint to catch up. We all work hard and all women and men deserve to be paid equally for equal work. Women have made tremendous strides during the last few decades by moving into jobs and occupations previously done almost exclusively by men, yet during the last decade there has been very little further progress in the gender integration of work. In some industries and occupations, like construction, there has been no progress in forty years. In middle-skill occupations workers in jobs mainly done by women earn only 66 percent of workers in jobs mainly done by men. This persistent occupational segregation is a primary contributor to the lack of significant progress in closing the wage