Equal Pay Discrimination

Throughout the world, discrimination in all forms has continued to be a constant struggle; whether it’s racial, gender-based, religion, beliefs, appearance or anything that makes one person different from another, it’s an everyday occurrence. A major place that discrimination is occurring at is in the workplace. The largest discrimination problem is believed to gender-based, because of the pay gap. Men and women have been receiving different pay for doing equal work for decades, this has become a bigger issue because men have noticeably been receiving greater pay than women. When employers refer to the pay they’re giving their employees the only information that should be being talked about should be their background knowledge, not their race,
Also, women have become the larger gender percent to graduate college with higher educations since they believed this would better their incomes(“Gender Pay 9”). Women deserve equal pay rights, not all men deserve to make more than women. This has started to become an enormous issue in today's world because women have been fighting the gender wage pay gap for fifty years and hardly seeing the results they want(“Discrimination 1”). Not only women with higher educations are affected by the gender wage gap, but also the individuals who work the minimum wage jobs are being affected by this. Men who start a job at the same time as women tend to start out with higher pay or they receive raises before women who started the job at the same time as men(“Equal Pay Day 1”). When this changes it will make people be more equal and men and women will have no
Equal pay for equal work needs to be discussed because it will prevent future problems and cases towards an employer. The major thing that need to be discussed is the experience behind each and every employee and why they’re being paid what they are. This can be based on many things like jobs, high school and college education, volunteering, etc. Many studies have been done on the reasonings behind the pay gap, a big portion of this has shown that it isn't about the gender. Some studies that were done involved Bureau Labor Statistics. This study was called the Current Population Survey and it’s purpose was and it’s purpose was to gather information on gender differences(“Gender Pay 9”). The CPS survey was give to gather data but was unable to determine if it was worker choice or discrimination(“Gender Pay 9”). It was shortly that they conducted a GAO’s Quality Assurance Framework that happened to be relevant to their research that helped state their objective and define there conclusion(“Gender