own, since it’s a very vague overview of the inequality of pay. Since the organization that created this chart is so large it is a possibility that mistakes were made between wages offsetting the accuracy of the numbers.
B. Plan of Investigation
This investigation is focused on the impact the Equal Pay Act of 1963 had in equalizing the overall pay of members of society post-world war II U.S. by answering the question, “To what extent did the Equal Pay Act of 1963 equalize the overall pay of men and women in post-world war II U.S.?” To focus on the impact of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the main body of evidence will focus on the role and types of jobs women held before world war II. This will then then transition to the changes World War II caused that affected the integration …show more content…
The gap between men and women is shortening however there is unfortunately still a gap. based on hourly earnings of both full- and part-time workers, finds women earn 84 percent of what men earn. Based on an independent study it estimates, that “it would take approximately 40 days, or until the end of February, for women to earn what men had by the end of last year”(www.infoplease.com).Even though women are making their presence known in higher paying jobs, a problem still persists. As a whole women still work in lower paying jobs than men-do. The higher paying jobs are still, for the most part dominated by men . It has been suggested that part of the reason for the gap is do to gender discrimination – women are about twice as likely as men to say they had been discriminated against at work because of their gender (18% vs. 10%). To prevent the furthering of such discrimination President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act on January 29, 2009,1 restoring the protection against pay discrimination that was stripped away by the Supreme Court’s decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber
B. Plan of Investigation
This investigation is focused on the impact the Equal Pay Act of 1963 had in equalizing the overall pay of members of society post-world war II U.S. by answering the question, “To what extent did the Equal Pay Act of 1963 equalize the overall pay of men and women in post-world war II U.S.?” To focus on the impact of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the main body of evidence will focus on the role and types of jobs women held before world war II. This will then then transition to the changes World War II caused that affected the integration …show more content…
The gap between men and women is shortening however there is unfortunately still a gap. based on hourly earnings of both full- and part-time workers, finds women earn 84 percent of what men earn. Based on an independent study it estimates, that “it would take approximately 40 days, or until the end of February, for women to earn what men had by the end of last year”(www.infoplease.com).Even though women are making their presence known in higher paying jobs, a problem still persists. As a whole women still work in lower paying jobs than men-do. The higher paying jobs are still, for the most part dominated by men . It has been suggested that part of the reason for the gap is do to gender discrimination – women are about twice as likely as men to say they had been discriminated against at work because of their gender (18% vs. 10%). To prevent the furthering of such discrimination President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act on January 29, 2009,1 restoring the protection against pay discrimination that was stripped away by the Supreme Court’s decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber