Where do you stand on equal pay for equal work?

Question

Recently in my Sociology class I discovered that women receive .76 to every dollar men receive. This is astonishing to me that the legislation was passed for equal pay 40+ years ago and things are still unequal.

One more question....Could you honestly look your mother, grandmother, aunt, sister, significant other in the eye and tell them they are only worth75% to you and the world?

Answer 1

things were starting to progress with NOW and others who protested worked hard for equality etc. then there was a backlash and anyone fro women's rights was called a feminazi etc..
so were back to the olden days.
unless women are willing to be called names and fight fro their rights again figure your lucky to get 76 on the $1. it'll get worse again as most big employers and republicans figure we'll do nothing. generation x has been only looking at their individual needs and not been involved political or any proactive. this is what happens when you don't get involved and let others decide how things will go for you.
what are you going to do about it?

Answer 2

A man and a woman working the same job with the same qualifications and seniority should be paid the same amount. Did the study cited in your class consider seniority? If a woman goes on maternity leave her seniority stops. when she returns she may return at the same rate she left with. A man who started at the same time and did not leave would get raises during that time so when she returned he would be making more. In our workforce unfortunately we do not give raises based on productivity (most of the time), but based on seniority. Also there are negotiation skills to consider for some jobs where there is a salary range and you negotiate within that range.

Answer 3

That figure is more of the hoaxes generated by feminists. I am well familiar with that figure, which includes women working only 24 hours a week at trivial jobs, which women are more likely to voluntarily do. Like a woman working at a Second hand clothes place 24 hours a week is somehow supposed to make as much as an engineer who works 70 hours a week????????????

Enough of these lies. If you can find any job, anywhere, in your own city, where a woman works as many hours, with the same time on the job, at exactly the same job as a man, call the Labor Department. You can't; you won't.

Fifteen years ago, that lie was printed in the Cedar Rapids Gazette. I wrote a letter to the editor challenging anyone at all to produce any woman who made a penny less than a man with the same hours worked, same time on the job, who made one cent less than he did.

After I wrote it, I started sweating, because I was a thorn in the side of the local femis, and all they had to do was produce one case to smear me good.

THEY DIDN'T!!!!!!! That is because they couldn't.

It's not true. Get a life! Think before you memorize those lies.

Answer 4

I read somewhere that this is happening because most women accept the pay that is offered to them when they are hired while most men negotiate for higher pay. So if you start at a higher pay, the difference will always be there as you progress through the ranks.

Answer 5

Women deserve to be paid exactly the same as men - assuming they are doing the exact same work at the exact same level. Why would anyone say differently?

Answer 6

It's only a myth that if a woman is hired for a job that she would get paid less than a man for the exact same job and qualifications.

Answer 7

I think if you do the job, you deserved to get paid. Equally!

Answer 8

A WORKMAN IS WORTHY OF HIS HIRE.

EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK.