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The Pros And Cons Of Closing The Wage Gap

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In using data from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research’s Status of Women in the States, Rhodan (2015) found that wage gap differs by region. They found that in West Virginia Utah, Louisiana, North Dakota and Wyoming that wage gaps will only close 42 years after the gap is set to close for the entire US. This shows that “The nation needs to take bold, coordinated action to speed the pace of progress toward closing the wage gap and ending discrimination by sex and race” (Rhodan, 2015). The United States is said to be the land of the free but continues to disregard the inequality working women face. The paper also found that women in the south are far more likely to make less money than men relative to women in the North. Traditionally the South’s historical and …show more content…

Till the 1960s the South was subject to a segregated system of separate schools and public facilities and with no reparations generations have experienced differences in wages for the same jobs and skills. This is shows that is not only a national problem but also state-orientated based on historical trends in sex discrimination as well as slavery. Black women are particularly at a disadvantage because they face women’s as well as black issues. The United States has not truly progressed because in perfectly competitive labour market, individual characteristics should be rewarded the same, and they aren’t.

Wilson, Valerie, et al (2017) confirm that black women are underpaid. They explain that the wage gap exists especially for black women because they are subject to racial and gender pay gaps. “On average, black women workers are paid only 67 cents on the dollar relative to white non-Hispanic men, even after controlling for education, years of experience, and location” (Wilson, Valerie, et al, 2017). What is going on? The

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Congress first addressed the issue more than four decades ago in the Equal Pay Act of 1963, mandating an "equal pay for equal work" standard, and addressed it again the following year in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.” (congressional-digest 1) Statistics reveal that

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On average, Black women tend to have less favorable outcomes than their White, non-Hispanic counterparts. Black women still face a stark wage gap and are less likely to work in higher-paid occupations. Raising the minimum wage, closing the wage gap, ensuring adequate working conditions and expanding opportunities for higher wage occupations would greatly impact the lives of Black women and their families (United States Department of Labor,

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Prior to segregated societies in the 1940s, our economy after World War II was prospering. Marriage rates increased, as did the availability of jobs for white men, leading to the cult of domesticity—meaning that men are the breadwinners of the family while women stay home and do laundry. Due to discrimination, like “red lining,” against minorities within the workplace and the creation of suburbia, African Americans were continuously left poor and at the bottom of society. Over time, black positions at the bottom of society and women’s household roles remained, mainly due to the creation of suburbia and the discriminatory acts that maintained racial and gender inequality.

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In the workforce, there are wage gaps amongst different races. African americans earn seventy-three percent as much as whites and hispanics earn sixty-nine percent as much (Patten 9). Although the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the State and Federal powers to exploit an employee based upon their race, religion, and gender, there is still discrimination in how much a person earns based upon their race and gender. Even though there is an equal employment opportunity agency that protects an individual’s civil rights in a workplace, there is still racial bias in salary

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Shining some much-needed sunlight on the gender wage gap will make a difference for every one of us, men and women, right now.” (www.nytimes.com, 16). “It’s the twenty-first century, and the gender wage gap affects the daily life of women throughout the country, at every economic level, from cashier to CEO. Is it fair? No.

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Then finally their payment, blacks are usually paid $35,416 while whites are being paid $59,754. So that's why blacks want to stop inequalities. African Americans would really appreciate it if racial inequality would stop because it's not fair. That's why 8 important people have tried to stop it, because they want everyone to be

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But now that I understand the term I realized that I too, assumed that all women in America were concern with the pay wage gap between men and women. In most careers, women make much less money than men do for doing the same exact job. I thought all women prioritized this awful pay wage gap until I realized that I prioritize this unequal pay gap because I am a Caucasian female but, for instance, an African American woman may prioritize the injustices she may face while trying to get employed over the unequal pay gap. In the article, Study: anti-black hiring discrimination is as prevalent today as it was in 1989, German Lopez stated that, “The researchers found that anti-black racism in hiring is unchanged since at least 1989… The bottom line is whether you get a job in America can come down to your race” (Gomez, 2017).

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Besides white women being paid less than men, more culturally diverse people are being paid even less than them. A USA today article on the gap says “The numbers were even worse for women of color, with black women earning 68% of what was paid to white men and Hispanic women’s pay amounting to just 62% of their white male peers, according to the IWPR.” click here for link. That is crazy considering segregation has ended, at least so we thought. Not only culturally diverse women, but all women are being paid less than men.

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Annotated Bibliography Quast, L. (2015, November 22). The Gender Pay Gap Issue Is Fixable -- But May Require Bolder Actions To Overcome. Retrieved from Forbes.com: http://www.forbes.com/sites/lisaquast/2015/11/22/the-gender-pay-gap-issue-is-fixable-but-may-require-bolder-actions-to-overcome/2/ It is reported by the Economic Policy Institute that although women had made tremendous records entering into workforce and gain great successes in education, but their wage is 83% comparing to men. The world forum also released a report in 2015 that women now make as much as men earned a decade ago.

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