Wage Pay Is Real Essay
The wage gap is made a huge deal, but lots of speculation has surfaced about whether it’s real or not. If the wage gap is really the big deal that it’s made out to be, it would being affecting thousands of women all over the US. With all these women it’s affecting, why hasn’t the government put a stop to it? If the wage gap isn’t real, why is it known as the biggest reason for gender inequality in America? This speculation leads me to only one question, is the gender wage gap even real?
It turns out that the wage gap isn’t as accurate as we might be told to believe. Hoff Sommers says, “The 23-cent gender pay gap is simply the difference between the average earnings of all men and women working full-time. It does not account for differences …show more content…
in occupations, positions, education, job tenure, or hours worked per week. When all these relevant factors are taken into consideration, the wage gap narrows to about five cents.” If the wage gap is based on an average of all the men and women across America, despite these different factors, we can’t know for sure that the gender wage gap is real. As for the extra five cent difference, Hoff Sommers then says it’s “a result of discrimination or some other subtle, hard-to-measure difference between male and female workers.” A five cent difference is still a difference. Maybe not as big as a 23 cent difference, but there’s still a gap.
How can we prove that this 5 cent gap is really based off of discrimination? Like Golden says where she compares evidence of discrimination to smoking guns, “The smoking guns existed in the past.”, “We don’t find those smoking guns now.” It’s not easy to say whether the 5 cent gap is based off of worth ethic and experience, or gender stereotypes and discrimination. In past years when the wage gap was much bigger, it was easier to decipher between the two. People would openly admit to being sexist or in other ways discriminational. Now however, fewer people admit that they’re being sexist, which makes it harder to find the evidence to give us accurate data on a wage gap. Where it starts to get complicated is getting all of those factors to accurately match up.
Hill says, “The pay gap affects women from all backgrounds, at all ages, and of all levels of educational achievement, although earnings and the gap vary depending on a woman’s individual situation.” It wouldn’t be accurate to ignore all of these situations and come up with data despite them. To be able to find people with the same exact job qualifications and situation all across the US would be really challenging. Then, if the data ever is proven correct, we can say if the wage gap is based on sexism or situation. My research has lead me to believe that we may not ever know for sure if there is a true wage gap. Due to the inaccurate data taken to prove it, it makes it tough to say if it’s real until there is accurate data taken. During this research process the most important thing I learned was how to correctly use MLA citations. This will help me the next time I do research so that I can make sure I don't plagiarize anyone else's work. I now know that taking notes and planning my paper out before I start a first draft will help me create my best possible writing. One thing I did well was finding credible sources to use for my research. The next time, however, I will try to find even more websites to get information
from.
It turns out that the wage gap isn’t as accurate as we might be told to believe. Hoff Sommers says, “The 23-cent gender pay gap is simply the difference between the average earnings of all men and women working full-time. It does not account for differences …show more content…
in occupations, positions, education, job tenure, or hours worked per week. When all these relevant factors are taken into consideration, the wage gap narrows to about five cents.” If the wage gap is based on an average of all the men and women across America, despite these different factors, we can’t know for sure that the gender wage gap is real. As for the extra five cent difference, Hoff Sommers then says it’s “a result of discrimination or some other subtle, hard-to-measure difference between male and female workers.” A five cent difference is still a difference. Maybe not as big as a 23 cent difference, but there’s still a gap.
How can we prove that this 5 cent gap is really based off of discrimination? Like Golden says where she compares evidence of discrimination to smoking guns, “The smoking guns existed in the past.”, “We don’t find those smoking guns now.” It’s not easy to say whether the 5 cent gap is based off of worth ethic and experience, or gender stereotypes and discrimination. In past years when the wage gap was much bigger, it was easier to decipher between the two. People would openly admit to being sexist or in other ways discriminational. Now however, fewer people admit that they’re being sexist, which makes it harder to find the evidence to give us accurate data on a wage gap. Where it starts to get complicated is getting all of those factors to accurately match up.
Hill says, “The pay gap affects women from all backgrounds, at all ages, and of all levels of educational achievement, although earnings and the gap vary depending on a woman’s individual situation.” It wouldn’t be accurate to ignore all of these situations and come up with data despite them. To be able to find people with the same exact job qualifications and situation all across the US would be really challenging. Then, if the data ever is proven correct, we can say if the wage gap is based on sexism or situation. My research has lead me to believe that we may not ever know for sure if there is a true wage gap. Due to the inaccurate data taken to prove it, it makes it tough to say if it’s real until there is accurate data taken. During this research process the most important thing I learned was how to correctly use MLA citations. This will help me the next time I do research so that I can make sure I don't plagiarize anyone else's work. I now know that taking notes and planning my paper out before I start a first draft will help me create my best possible writing. One thing I did well was finding credible sources to use for my research. The next time, however, I will try to find even more websites to get information
from.