Tuesday, February 26, 2013
77 Cents for very Dollar!!!!
I wanted to talk briefly again about gender inequality and work. Sorry for such a late post, but due to a loss of power today and having to make an emergency run to Columbia I couldn't post until now. I want to address the average pay of women in the workforce compared to that of men in similar lines of work. The thought of 77 cents per every dollar a man makes is such a drastic difference in the rate of pay that it has now become a very problematic situation. I personally disagree with this basis. The explanation behind paying women less for similar work is embedded in the belief that a woman must have a man somewhere to provide for her and it disregards those individual women who are the sole and or only provider for their households. It is no shock that many households today are primarily ran by women who must care for an entire family on their own. Yet, we love to assume that women can sufficiently provide as much as any man or dual family owners on less than adequate pay. I am most confused as to why this hasn't been ratified to this very day, the thought of sexism affecting the outcome of women's lives financially is beyond ridiculous and that's a fact.
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