Women still do not get equal pay in workplace
Marissa Villarreal
As a female in the workplace, I try to get by with my minimum wage job while still managing to go to school and get an education.
This appears as the typical broke college kid struggle, often pondering the questions of ‘what career path is right for me’ or ‘with this degree am I really promised a job right out of college?’
Unfortunately, the answers to these questions are not the same for everyone. It is not uncommon to see unfairness between men and women occur often within the workplace, and it continues to be a struggle to create fairness for everybody.
Overtime, it has become more and more common to see women graduate college and work in fields that were once male dominated such as lawyers, doctors, policewomen, etc., but the saddening truth is that when it comes to the pay, it has been shown that women still make much less than men.
Due to loopholes in the Equal Pay Act of 1963, women today are still unable to earn the same amount of income as men. For every dollar a man makes, a woman only earns 77.4 cents. If that woman happens to be African-American, it’s only 67 cents, and if she’s a Latina, it’s 53 cents per dollar.
It has always been an unfair world for women everything from physicality to relationships to the workplace to even voting.
Nothing has ever been truly equal. It was a fight within itself for women to gain voting rights, and it was not until Aug. of 1920 that women were finally given the right to vote through the passing of the 19th Amendment.
Countless women fought for their right to vote, just as so many are fighting today for their equal earning rights in the workplace.
It appears to me that this is a fight that will continue to go unnoticed due to the lack of seriousness that male-dominated businesses seem to project in today’s society.
Nobody can say their work effort should go ignored or unappreciated, so for a woman to have unequal pay for the same amount of work as her male coworkers, I find it ultimately appalling.
Nowadays, you would think that discrimination of color, gender, etc., would be diminished, but when it comes to our paychecks, it is clear that it is not.
I know from even my own personal work experience, I find myself questioning the morals of my company. For a woman that has not been given a raise in more than the two years that I have worked
there, while male employees have moved up to supervisorpositions only after months of working for our company.
In a male dominated world, should women just stand aside and let this unfairness continue, or is it just another right that women have to fight for?
With the way things are going now, I can only hope my degree stands just as strong next to a male opponent when I graduate, and maybe then, my work will be worth something.
