Women Should Be Paid Essay

According to a Census Bureau, on The National Organization for Women, “In annual earnings between men and women, we find that there is about a 23 cent difference per dollar.” Women are being paid unjustly for the equal work they are doing. Ever since women entered the workforce, there has always been a wage gap. In 1963 an Equal Pay Act was signed, saying that it is unlawful for women to be paid less than men for their work. There should not be a wage gap between women and men who work the same hours, the different ages of workers, and need to provide for their families. A man and women who went to school for the same amount of years, should be paid the same amount. However, women are not being paid due to their schooling in the United States. In a
According to a Briefing Paper, by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, “low levels of coverage disproportionately affect mothers because they are more likely than fathers to miss work to take care of sick children.” When a child is sick, a mother is more likely to take off work, than a father. Because of this, women are taking off more work than men. However, single mothers have to provide for their entire family. Since single mothers are the only parent, the pay gap is standing in their way of being able to provide for their families. According to America’s Women and the Wage Gap fact sheet, “On average, women employed full time in the United States lose a combined total of more than $840 billion every year due to the wage gap.” Losing this money, the United States economy cannot grow. If the wage gap was eliminated, the amount of single mother families in poverty would decrease. On the same site, it says that eliminating the wage gap, women could pay for 1.5 years of food, seven months of mortgage and utilities, and 11 or more months of rent. All that would happen by raising the average woman's salary from 77 cents to a