Gender Wage Gap
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Women in the work place. The Battle over equal Pay.
Dr. Cindy Waugh
GRST 500/501 Introduction to Graduate Writing
Date
Taryn Jones
Imagine yourself going into work every day, punching the time clock with your fellow coworkers who complete the same job tasks as you but when payday comes around you have only earned about three-fourths of what they were paid. Wouldn’t you be a little outraged or even feel somewhat belittled? In America today statistics indicate there is a gender income gap where women and men do not make the same money for the same job. This is a profound exploitation of women in the workplace.
It has been proven over time that women are just as capable as performing jobs that are or were traditionally dominated by men and women should be paid for these jobs equally. Even though there are many stereotypes about women in the workplace, women should earn the same amount of money that men do when performing the same job. By addressing the negative stereotypes of women, understanding the causes of the gender income gap and bridging that wage gap, we are ending a social injustice against women and ensuring gender equality in the workplace.
The notion that a woman’s work is not as valuable as a man’s is an archaic way of thinking. This idea comes from early America which was a Christian society where many of the beliefs held at that time came from the Bible. And in the Bible it says “ The Lord says to Moses, ‘Say to the people of Israel, when a man makes a special vow of person to the Lord at your valuation, then your valuation of the male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be 50 shekels of the sanctuary. If a person is a female, your valuation shall be thirty shekels.” (Leviticus 27: 1-4, Revised Standard Version)
Briefly this means that men are more valuable than women therefore a man’s work is more valuable than a woman’s. Fundamentally women were viewed as the weaker sex and not as valuable as a male. At that time in our history many people also felt that the women’s work was less valuable because they were not supporting an entire family as a man would. This may have held true then because woman rarely did the same work as men and normally tended to the house and...