Gender Discrimination

Tam’me Pompilio

Composition English 101 A02

Gender Wage Gap Today

The fight for equality between men and women is still alive today, and women are still behind in the fight in the work force even though they have the same schooling and credentials required that their male counterparts do. Even though the wage gap discrimination between genders has been in existence since the early twentieth century, when women were actually allowed to join the workforce, statistics show that the gap hasn’t closed by very much today. There are many points or factors that are involved in this type of daily discrimination in the workplace besides just being of the female persuasion. Being a woman of color, being a high school graduate or less, or being of Hispanic descent also play into determining just how much of a gap is present in the workplace. If a combination of any these factors are added together the gap widens considerably.

Women doing the same work as a man should be paid the same pay and with the same increases as men receive. Slight changes made in the arrangement of work should not be a way to condone lowering wages for women unless the work output or quality of production are less for women than it is for men. If there are such differences found in the final work of the women, then the wage rate should be based on those differences for that job, and nothing else. It should be based as a whole for that job, and should not be discriminately determined. These discriminations against women go back hundreds of years and women are making small triumphs with each passing decade.

During the war, for example, many employers had spoken highly of their female employees and their work quality and output. They have admitted that women who have taken the place of men are just as efficient, or have done even better work than the men that they replaced as well as the men they worked side by side...