RIDDING THE WORLD OF THE GENDER WAGE GAP American women have made tremendous amounts of progress down the path to gaining full equality. However‚ women still do not receive equal pay for equal work. There are some who refuse to believe the existence of a gender wage gap‚ but it is a common problem in the United States. The wage gap is the statistical indicator used to indicate the status of women’s earnings relative to men’s. The wage gap is usually expressed as a percentage‚ for example in 2012
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I will choose “Gender-based income gap” topic for writing an essay. The rationale behind choosing this topic is‚ I care about it and it interests me. This also evokes strong reaction since I am a woman. Though there is equal pay law in US and similar laws in other countries‚ Gender-based income gap still exists. I am going to argue that it still exists and we should do something about it. Gender-based income gap has been persisting for long time. Its existence could be well argued based on different
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The general argument made by Carl Richards in his work‚ “Fighting the Gender Pay Gap” is that some factors that affects gender pay gaps are the fact that there is bias‚ not enough awareness‚ and no real consequences for those companies not willing to change. More specifically‚ Richards argues that many companies aren’t willing to change and help decrease the gender pay gap. He states‚ “There’s no real consequence if they don’t” (Paragraph 4).Richards is suggesting that companies are unwilling to
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The gender pay gap is a major problem in the U.S. Across almost all different types of occupations‚ women are being paid significantly less than their male counterparts. Throughout the years‚ many women have spoken up about the wage difference‚ demanding equality‚ and progress is slowly being made to close this gap. Women are only paid on average 78% of what men are paid (United States of America). The wage gap is caused by many factors‚ including how men and women select different occupations‚ gender
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He points out how in 1950‚ 9.9% of men ages 30-34 years old completed tertiary education and 7% of women ages 30-34 completed tertiary education which caused a 2.9% gender gap but by 2000‚ the gender gap was -2.2%. This data shows how education for women has changed if the gender gap were still to exist today I would have had more obstacles to achieve my education. According to the National Women’s History Museum “In general‚ the purpose of women’s education in colonial
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My possible career is in the financial services industry‚ and the gender wage gap is very prevalent in this industry. According to bustle.com‚ women in financial analysts and managers positions make an average of 63 cents compared to a man’s dollar. This is a large gap and is a big problem for women who want to work in the industry. There have been many lawsuits involving Wall Street firms to try to stop the issue of this big gap in pay. Even though‚ as a man I am favored‚ this is not right and there
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A. Sanders are the authors of The Gender Gap in Death Penalty Support: An Exploratory Study article demonstrate how we deal with the capital punishment issue by providing the method and its result of their researches. In the past‚ men are known as a group which supports capital punishment more than women. Although the gap between men and women about this topic has been enduring over time‚ there has been evidence of a change in narrowing or widening of this gap as the authors noticed that in their
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The median wages of women are lower than that of men irrespective of whether the income is measured based hourly‚ weekly or annual earnings (Costello and Hegewisch‚ 2016). There are many people that believe that the gender based wage gap is a myth. Some experts attribute the wage gap to the choices women make such as choosing occupations that do not pay higher wages‚ taking time off to have children‚ and not working long hours like men due to family responsibilities.
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In “How to Tackle the Gender Gap in the Workplace‚” an article published in USNews‚ Hannah Morgan argues that a female promotion rate in their workplace is lower than the male one when they become over 40 years old‚ and the female salary is also lower. She admits that women need
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College allows students to explore different perspective such as to exploring academia‚ different career choices‚ experience‚ building skills‚ exploring different jobs‚ but most of all it is a self-exploration. For first year students‚ college is new for them and going through college they are exploring themselves. In
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