Gender Inequality In America
There have always been inequalities in America, but the most shocking inequality is gender inequality because America is known for being a modern society due to it’s accepting nature but it is a paradox to have gender inequality embedded. These inequalities affect the peoples’ jobs, lives and wages. One of the roots of gender inequality is discrimination. Discrimination is… In other words society judges people on their external appearances. America is notorious for gender inequality.
There are so many forms of gender inequality. The article “What Are You Worth?” by Jessica Hamzelou discusses about wage differences between men and women. For instance in the article Hamzelou says that in America it is a well known fact that “women are still earning
less than men at all stages of their careers, and the difference only grows with experience. Employers take note: no employee can be expected to stick around at a company that undervalues them. Low salaries may contribute to the fact that many women are leaving science careers altogether,”(2). This is one of the conclusions that the author derived from questioning 5800 scientists. In the academic journal, “Separate and Unequal: Occupation-Establishment Sex Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap” by Trond Petersen and Laurie A. Morgan, the authors go in depth about how race and gender effects the wage. In the journal the authors write about the reason for the differences between men and women is discrimination and the way society discriminates is by matching different wage occupation with gender (329). This way of thinking is very arrogant because there are so many women that are doctors, lawyers, professors and many other well paid jobs.
Some people that think this way might use ratios that show that there are less women than men in high paying jobs. But that data is irrelevant because women that do or have the potential to become a high paid worker usually quit on their dreams due to harassment, discrimination, and wage differences. In other words women have to work much harder than men to reach the same place.
The short article “Did You Know That Women Are Still Paid Less Than Men?” written by the government gives a public service announcement about the wage gap. The article announces that “on average, full-time working women earn just 78 cents for every dollar a man earns. This significant gap is more than a statistic -- it has real life consequences. When women, who make up nearly half the workforce, bring home less money each day, it means they have less for the everyday needs of their families, and over a lifetime of work, far less savings for retirement,” (1). This is national issue because the wage gap not only deprives women of their earnings but also affects the middle and low class family which is formed by ninety nine percent of Americans. There are men out there thinking that they are the provider because of his superior pay compared to his wife’s but these statistics reveal that women are not receiving fair pay. This negatively affects men and women and families in the future.
The social inequality in America is shocking. These inequalities affect everyone's life in america unless they are billionaires by birth. The main root of inequality is discrimination. Society judges people on their external appearances. Since the beginning of time society has been broken into pieces of different groups and the biggest, most dominate or richest one discriminate the others. Now time has evolved but man hasn’t because man still discriminate or others.
There are so many forms of gender inequality. The article “What Are You Worth?” by Jessica Hamzelou discusses about wage differences between men and women. For instance in the article Hamzelou says that in America it is a well known fact that “women are still earning
less than men at all stages of their careers, and the difference only grows with experience. Employers take note: no employee can be expected to stick around at a company that undervalues them. Low salaries may contribute to the fact that many women are leaving science careers altogether,”(2). This is one of the conclusions that the author derived from questioning 5800 scientists. In the academic journal, “Separate and Unequal: Occupation-Establishment Sex Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap” by Trond Petersen and Laurie A. Morgan, the authors go in depth about how race and gender effects the wage. In the journal the authors write about the reason for the differences between men and women is discrimination and the way society discriminates is by matching different wage occupation with gender (329). This way of thinking is very arrogant because there are so many women that are doctors, lawyers, professors and many other well paid jobs.
Some people that think this way might use ratios that show that there are less women than men in high paying jobs. But that data is irrelevant because women that do or have the potential to become a high paid worker usually quit on their dreams due to harassment, discrimination, and wage differences. In other words women have to work much harder than men to reach the same place.
The short article “Did You Know That Women Are Still Paid Less Than Men?” written by the government gives a public service announcement about the wage gap. The article announces that “on average, full-time working women earn just 78 cents for every dollar a man earns. This significant gap is more than a statistic -- it has real life consequences. When women, who make up nearly half the workforce, bring home less money each day, it means they have less for the everyday needs of their families, and over a lifetime of work, far less savings for retirement,” (1). This is national issue because the wage gap not only deprives women of their earnings but also affects the middle and low class family which is formed by ninety nine percent of Americans. There are men out there thinking that they are the provider because of his superior pay compared to his wife’s but these statistics reveal that women are not receiving fair pay. This negatively affects men and women and families in the future.
The social inequality in America is shocking. These inequalities affect everyone's life in america unless they are billionaires by birth. The main root of inequality is discrimination. Society judges people on their external appearances. Since the beginning of time society has been broken into pieces of different groups and the biggest, most dominate or richest one discriminate the others. Now time has evolved but man hasn’t because man still discriminate or others.