Within most companies only a few upper levels positions exist and very few are equivalent positions. That means most women are unable to prove, within the law, their exact male counterpart is earning more because their peer exists outside of their company. By addressing this issue the Equal Pay Act’s original goals can finally be met. With that, women will be much closer to receiving the same pay as men, and the business world will be one step closer to being…
Gender discrimination is not an issue that can be ended instantly. The war against it has been fought in countless battles that take the shape of court cases, executive orders, and legislation. One branch of gender discrimination is the wage gap in the workplace. However, America’s countless attempts to prevent it all appear to be in vain. Through the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, and other significant pieces of legislation, it would seem that women may be paid equally for equal work sometime in the near future.…
Equality for women in the workforce and obtaining female rights in the business industry are issues that have seen some types of reform in today’s society. However, we still have a way to go to enforce it in places that it should be. This continues to be one of the most controversial issues in the United…
There are associations between the materialistic/structural explanation and the cultural behavioural explanation. The cultural explanation suggests that the social distribution of poor health is linked to differences in individual behaviours and to different groups’ attitudes towards their health (Daykin, 2001). The Stroke Foundation of NZ (2010) suggests that people who are subject to a greater degree of disadvantage were estimated to have about a 60% increased risk of stroke when compared with those with the lowest level of disadvantage. Asthana and Halliday (2006) backs this statement up as it states that health-damaging behaviours are more prevalent among the poor than the socially advantaged. Additionally there are also behavioural factors…
Introduction It is a fact that if you are a woman in the workplace, whether in the private or public sector, you will most likely be paid less than your male colleague. This issue of a gender wage gap hurts women and families and ultimately the economy. According to Ontario Pay Equity Commission “The most recent Statistics Canada data (2011) shows that the gender wage gap in Ontario is 26% for full–time, full–year workers. This means that for every $1.00 earned by a male worker, a female worker earns 74 cents.” (“The Gender Wage Gap”)…
Although the Equal Pay Act has existed for more than fifty years now, women are still paid less than their male counterparts in every single industry within the United States (Anderson). Lori Andrus discusses the cause of this continuing discrimination, while encouraging her female counterparts in advocating for equal pay by suing, in her piece “Level the playing field. ”Anderson stresses her points by dissecting The Equal Pay Act and statistics, to show the main cause of the pay gap and to encourage women to sue for unequal pay. Meanwhile, Emily Peck mainly focuses on the causes of the gender pay gap with little discussion on possible solutions to narrow the gap in by means of her article “The Real Reason Women Still Make Less Than Men.”…
Feminist scholars and scholars of gender and the welfare states have criticized the shortcomings of Esping-Anderson’s three typologies of the welfare state regimes. Nonetheless, several empirical studies show that Epsing-Anderson’s welfare state regimes do have some explanatory power in theorizing and investigating differences and similarities of gender policies especially with regards to female employment and labor force participation. Across all three typologies of the welfare state regimes, the (welfare) state significantly contribute to ameliorate the gap in wage and labor force participation between the sexes by employing women in the public sectors. Overall, liberal, conservative, and social democratic welfare state regimes exhibit distinctive patterns of public policy regarding gender and female labor force participation.…
In the United States, the issue of gender pay discrimination afflicts women of all races, educational backgrounds, and ages. The issue has been very perennial in the United States due to the issues such as career clustering, women having to multitask between job obligations, and household chores and perhaps the birth penalty as it seems in this sphere…
Policy Analysis: Gender Pay/ Gender Hire: New York State level -Sharon Phillip In result of defining and framing the problem of gender pay and gender hire, history has illustrated women in the workforce have dealt with salary disparities in many professions. Women on average earn about 77 cents for every dollar that a man earns in the span of a year. Several laws have been passed within the New York State Legislature which intended to inhibit gender-related employment discrimination in order to strengthen existing laws.…
Does it seem fair that a woman and a man with the same amount of degrees, time in office, and experience are the same but the woman only makes 78.6% of what the man does? This is a common occurrence because discrimination is one of the biggest problems that society faces today and has for centuries. It comes in all forms but the most prevalent form is sexual discrimination amongst men and women in the workplace. Many women of the workforce argue that they work just as hard as men, if not harder, yet make significantly less. With recent studies brought to light, efforts are being made to close the gender wage gap; equal pay is still long ways away.…
Other questions that tend to arise are; do women receive less pay due to the careers they choose, or do wages differ because women hold more part time positions in order to attend to caregiving responsibilities? These problems from our past have now become the issues of today’s word. While disparity can occur because due to shifts in personal priories; if both men and woman can achieve the same levels of education and produce an equal result they should receive the same level of income. This is because Given the proper training, both genders have the ability to…
Introduction Women’s health is a global problem across the world. It is extended beyond Planned Parenthood. Worldwide poverty, limited access to health services, cultural taboo and gender inequality puts women at risk for even more serious complications when it comes to their health. Two hundred million women who wish not to conceive a child do not have access to modern contraceptive. Every minute of every day a woman dies from pregnancy complications.…
Whether it is religion, sexuality, race, or even music taste, people are constantly finding ways to discriminate by differentiating people from each other. One element is gender pay gap--ever since the fall of Adam and Eve, women were always proven to be insignificant compared to men. Gender pay gap plays a negative role--socially, economically, and politically. Although the gender pay gap is a widespread problem that cannot be completely eradicated, society should be giving more of an effort into taking small steps to solving the problem so the future generations could benefit from knowing what is right -- by solving one of the most unfair stigmatized elements in society.…
care practice, we need to extend our tentacles beyond our immediate bases. The healthcare professionals can make meaningful contact with people from different ethnic groups to improve knowledge around their health beliefs and behaviors, and this will help in understanding the problems they face. In the United States, the gap between the rich and the poor is so wide that the zip codes are being used to allocate resources and goods. The zip codes, therefore can determine the life expectancy. For example, a child born in the poorest South-side of Chicago is likely to suffer many medical problems as compared with a child born in the rich neighborhoods of Chicago.…
When we talk about gender in society, what are the first things that come to mind? How females don’t get the same rate of pay, how males are more dominant and females are more submissive, or even the different jobs that each gender acquires. In this essay I talk about how there is gender inequality in health care, in education, and in the work place. The first thing I’m going to talk about is difference in education and the impact it can have on women that aren’t properly educated.…