The Workplace Is Sex, Race, And Education - 2038 Words

After years of fighting for equality in America we have still yet to be equal. We know why certain things are unequal but I have yet to find someone who knows the answer to my question. Inequality still exists in the workplace because of sex, race, and education. One of the biggest pay gaps in the workplace is sex. Between women and men the pay gap is different, men get paid more than women that are in the same profession. I have found that STILL to this day men believe that women can not do the labor that they do. â€Å"Professors led by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Sredhari Desai found that married men in â€Å"traditional† marriages (they’re the sole breadwinners while their wives do not work) view women in†¦show more content†¦As a woman you may feel as though since you’re leaving for a good reason that you deserve it, but your boss may view it as when you re on leave why give you more money? As a woman I honestly donâ₠¬â„¢t believe that it is fair because if I’m just as eligible as a non pregnant woman, or a man in my office even though the company is MAKING me take leave. You already having to give me paid leave, so why not give me my bonus too so when I come back I have it instead of me feeling as I’m getting discriminated against. Believe it or not there is a pay gap in-between a group of women itself. The pay gap worsens with age, the pay gap is 6% for women aged 25 to 35 but in women 60 and over the gap becomes a huge 38%. In 2013, women ages 55 to 64 years had median weekly earnings of $788. While the earnings for women in this age, group are higher than for women in other age groups, they are $212 less per week than the median weekly earnings of men ages 55 to 64 years, which is $1,000 per week for a gender earnings ratio of 78.8 percent. At the beginning of their working lives, the earnings of women and men are more similar; yet, even among the youngest workers, women ea rn less than men.† According to the Women’s Bureau Issue Brief. Also speaking to older women in my life such as my grandma about this subject, to see what