The Wage Discrimination Between A Man And A Woman

Research paper Discrimination can be dealt through many different aspects I will talk about the wage discrimination between a man and a women. I am for women getting equal pay as men because women can have the same qualifications if not better than their male counterparts and are still underpaid in most workplace settings. Through the years women have been underpaid by their male counterparts in society. Women should get equal pay as men because women may be just as qualified or overqualified as them in the workplace society. This paper will explain what wage discrimination is, how it affects women today, and how to improvise and possibly eliminate the situation. Since women got the right to vote in 1921 they have been underestimated by†¦show more content†¦Another thing to point out is that more women are graduating with college degrees than men in a recent study it showed how fifty seven percent of people in college were women as opposed to male. Recently â€Å"President Obama is trying to get the senate to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act to make it easier for women to defend themselves against gender discrimination.† Also the Equal Rights Amendment is also trying to work itself into play to help our generations women against such discrimination. Women should get equal pay as men because women may be just as qualified as men and get paid less as male. â€Å"From last years Census Bureau the wage gap between a teenage male and a teenage female was twenty two percent stimulating that a female earns twenty two cents less than the male in a full time job setting.† When you factor in other stipulations the gap may be lowe r but it still exists this is the problem at hand. In technology areas the pay gap between men and women 2,500 and if that woman has a child then the gap goes up to 11,000. Women deserve higher pay in society do same amount of work as men. Depending on a woman s marital status, education, how many hours worked, age, and area of location the wage gap can be between seven and twelve percent.Yes, women have progressed to reduce this percentage but they need to work much harder to prove themselves in this male