Why equal wages for women in the US are still a fiction and ERA still a dream?

Answer 1

Equal wages for equal work is very much the law. The reason, though, that you see disparity between men and women for similar highly-paid positions, or positions of authority, is because many women stop out to become mothers. This is factored into the averages that you see published to "prove" inequality.

Caring for infants and children necessarily prevents women from being available to work the long hours required to achieve the highest positions. As Neal Boortz says, "Successful people drive home in the dark".

So. Is this discrimination...? I don't think so; even a child knows you can't have your cake and eat it, too. Women must grow up and realize that you can't have it all; you have to choose.

Answer 2

We women of the 60's, Gloria Steinem and many others tried to bring equality into the workplace. However the women of today have no idea what it was like. Now they talk about us like we were wrong. Some women try but it seems to have become a war between women and women!! We are closer in many ways to some equality, but the glass ceiling is still in place.

Answer 3

Uh, they aren't. Women have MORE rights than men today. And the whole pay thing is a complete snow job by the liberal media. It factors in things like: working mothers, part-timers, women re-joining the workforce after years off the job.... why should men get paid the same as a woman with less experience?

When was the last time you were discriminated against for being a woman?

Answer 4

Because the Equal Rights Amendment was not ratified by 2/3 of the states as needed to become part of the constitution. If you want to start all over again, not likely in this era, than you have to take it back to congress and start the process all over again.

Answer 5

I heard that on average women that have a certain kind of job are six years younger that men that have the same kind of job, I guess because women mature faster. In the fields of physics and astronomy, wage equality *has* been reached.

Answer 6

I remember a story in the news saying that when women and men of the same age, same educational background, and same type of job were compared, the women made just as much as the men, so long as the women did not have children.

Answer 7

because you are delusional.