Is the Gender Pay Gap a Fallacy‚ a Myth‚ or Reality? CBS Money Watch says “The Gender Pay Gap Is A Complete Myth‚" the Wall Street Journal calls the issue “The ‘Wage Gap’ Myth That Won’t Die." These are some pretty big guns in the economics game. For them to take such a stand is pretty compelling‚ or is it? According to an article in the Huffington Post‚ the biggest argument is that "differences in the life choices of men and women — such as women tending to leave the workforce when they have
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April fourth is marked as National Equal Pay Day. This is a day that was started in1996 by the National Committee on Pay Equity is used to bring awareness of the gender pay gap across the globe. Equal pay has been an issue that gets brushed to the side within many governmental structures. Although President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963 to abolish wage disparity‚ many corporations did not follow the regulations and guidelines that are set into place by the act. Corporations get
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or unintelligent. But now is the time for change. Our ever changing world is evolving and we need to evolve with it. Gender should by no means determine our professions‚ pay or rankings‚ however‚ it very much does. On average‚ men in the work place earn 24% more than women which equates to $27 000 more a year. The gender pay gap is not a new issue‚ in fact it has been stuck between 14% and 18% for the past two decades. In addition‚ statistics show that women are far less represented in management
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institution in our nation. They have overcome issues of race‚ colour‚ and class. However‚ one area that faces continual struggling is that of gender equality. More especially‚ areas of concern include male and female athlete pay. I strongly disagree with the contention that pay in sport should always be equitable between genders. In fact I believe (sorry ladies) men deserve to be paid more. Picture this; Ancient Rome 100 BC. Big beefy gladiators marching into the coliseum. Owned by the wealthy Romans
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The Equal Pay Act of 1963 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission MINIMUM WAGE SEC. 206. [Section 6] (d) (1) No employer having employees subject to any provisions of this section shall discriminate‚ within any establishment in which such employees are employed‚ between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees in such establishment at a rate less than the rate at which he pays wages to employees of the opposite sex in such establishment for equal work on jobs
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classified as part time. Men are more likely to accept overtime hours and women are more likely to decline overtime. This could explain a large portion of the disparity in wages. (United) Men tend to gravitate towards occupations that command higher pay than do women. Examples of these types of jobs are construction‚ hazardous duty‚ engineering‚ and natural science fields. Women more commonly choose occupations in nursing‚ human resources‚ and education‚ which are lower paying fields. (Fogg‚ Piper)
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University Professors‚ Peter S. Li presents the results of a study conducted‚ which shows the pay gap between university professors Canada. Li’s goal in this paper is to uncover the factors that influence the earnings of university professors in Canada‚ and most importantly to determine the reasons behind these differences in earnings‚ such as gender or visible minority status. In finding the answers regarding pay gaps between university professors in Canada‚ Li collects his data from the Analytical
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The Gender Pay Gap PROBLEM Introduction The pay gap between men and women has fallen quite dramatically over the past 30 years though a sizeable gap still remains‚ but this headline figure masks some less positive developments in recent years. We are used to each generation of women making progress relative to the one before‚ but this process has slowed slightly with the better than the previous one(Centre Piece Summer 2006). The gender pay gap measures the earning differences between
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gap is simply a fallacy and has not in fact existed since the Equal Pay Act was enacted in 1963. The period of the strongest wage convergence between men and women was in the 1980s‚ and progress has been slower and more uneven since then. On one hand‚ people do not believe in the existence of the wage gap. These
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close the gap such as‚ the Equal Pay Act in 1963‚ the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009‚ and many other legislations that prohibit employment discrimination‚ women are still earning less than men. Women earn on average 78 cents for every dollar that men earn. This gender pay gap needs to be closed because unequal pay affects women’s pensions or retirement income‚ women need to provide for their families‚ and lower wages for women affect men too. The unequal pay that women experience affects their
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