Gender Pay Gap In Pay

Women entered the work force during World War II as the nation needed them. They then went back home until the 1960’s when the Women’s movement came about and women became more independent. Even though women were in the work force they were not getting equal pay for equal work. Even with the passage of the Equal Work Equal Pay Act of 1963, employers still see women as lessor of an employee. However, as the job landscape changes from manufacturing to more technology based jobs, women have started a new educational revolution by retooling and going back to school to prepare for jobs of the future. Meanwhile, men are slow to adapt and are starting to go backwards. Within the next decade the gender pay gap that does exist today will be non-existent
Is that really happening today in America? The short answer is “no”. Throughout history, the woman’s job was to do a few basic functions take: care of the home, make sure the children were educated and cared for, and take care of her husband. For many decades that way of operating was fine. After all no one knew better and women, of course, were weaker than men. The mindset was that women were weak and men know better.
Today that way of life could still exist if it wasn’t for the female work force being increased profoundly during World War II. Men were compelled to enlist in military service and war production required a growing American workforce. Consequently, women had to pick up the slack in the American labor market, building weapons that were needed for the war effort (Perry & Gundersen, 2011). After the war, men started to return to their jobs and many women just went back to what they knew, taking care of the home and family.
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The phrase gender pay gap refers to pay discrepancies between men and women, where women bring home smaller paychecks compared to their male counterparts (Income Gender Gap, 2010 as cited in Perry & Gundersen, 2011). Employers have historically viewed women in the workforce often as a secondary household income, which they didn’t believe deserved the same wages as the traditional male head of household. Well we know now this type of thinking should no longer exist. The business world has been slow to move in this arena by not recognizing women in their new role as the majority income in their households. Many business owners and CEOs still hold the belief that a woman shouldn’t make more than a