Gender Wage Gap

"Questioned why female government employees were not paid the same as male ones."(Time) This event is very important because it sparked the movement that has evolved into what we see today. Even though the problem is still evident for most of society, this really got people talking about it, and led to movement that led to further movements. This started the conversation of unequal pay being wrong.
http://time.com/3774661/equal-pay-history/

The Equal Pay Act was passed despite opposition and it "'mandates that employers cannot award unequal wages or benefits to men and women working jobs that require “equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed under similar working conditions”' (History). Obviously the effects of this have been limited as women still earn less on the dollar than men. However this was a huge step in starting change; even though it still doesn't appear to be happening all these years later.
https://www.history.com/topics/womens-rights/equal-pay-act
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Prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, origin, color, religion, and sex. Although this was not solely to aid women in their fight for equal pay, it definitely was an aiding tool. The fact that it was written that discrimination was prohibited on the basis of sex is a huge step in women get all sorts of rights, not just wage rights. (Sutori)
https://www.sutori.com/story/history-of-the-gender-pay-gap

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This organization is “responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a job applicant or an employee because of the person's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information” (EEOC). It helped benefit those who lacked the general rights believed to be owed to all in the workplace, including white women as well as men and women of color. Although women of color were often left out of the equation.
https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/index.cfm
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This amendment "expanded the reach of the Equal Pay Act to include white-collar executive, professional and administrative jobs" (History). This was another big step in giving more women equal pay although it didn't give equal pay to all of these women immediately, if at all. They still had to fight for it, this just helped there cause and gave them some more wages but far from “equal”.
https://www.history.com/topics/womens-rights/equal-pay-act

This provision helped to "protect pregnant employees" from loss of wages and other damages while they were pregnant. (Time) This was a huge step, even though it didn’t push women towards equal pay, it defended their rights to take leave for being pregnant and pushed for them to still get the wages they earned while they were away.
http://time.com/3774661/equal-pay-history/

This act “Not only...allow[ed] women to better fight back against gender based discrimination in the workplace, it put measures in place to help ensure that this discrimination does not take place at all.” (HRMBA) This act allowed people to take action if they thought they had reasonably been discriminated against, regarding their wages. This was a huge step because now people could take appropriate action against wage discrimination, in order to, at least fix their individual issue. Barack Obama signed this act into law.
https://www.humanresourcesmba.net/faq/what-is-the-lilly-ledbetter-fair-pay-act/

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"This date symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year" (Sutori). This is a big day, not just for women, but for men as well. We must realize, eventually, as a nation, that what women are facing is completely unwarranted and unnecessary. There is no reason a women should not earn the same wage as a man, and this day helps to point that fact out, blatantly.
https://www.sutori.com/story/history-of-the-gender-pay-gap

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