"The men were earning 15 to 40 percent more. “My heart jerked as if an electric jolt had coursed through my body,” she wrote in her 2012 memoir, Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond.
Lilly Ledbetter said this statement in an interview which was recorded in 1998. She explains how she was never treated properly, and finally came to the realization that she was indeed getting paid less.
Even after President Kennedy passed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, which banned“..discrimination on account of sex in the payment of wages by employers engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce.” Still, even after that, women continued to earn only 80 % of what men did only 3 months later, although both working the same job.
A decade later, statistics show that women are only receiving 77% of what men earned in 2010.
I completely agree with you. Women these days are so underpaid that its ridiculous. If you look at the top paid jobs for women and then the top paid jobs for men, its so different and even the job categories are so opposite. In my opinion I don't think that men and women are equal in everything that goes on in the U.S. today. Even when it comes to similar jobs like nursing or some type of doctor, the men get paid a lot more then the women do.
ReplyDeleteI never would have thought that a woman would get paid less than a man. Today, equality between men and women has improved so much that I never would have expected this! After reading your article I needed to find more information on this topic and I found this:
ReplyDeletehttp://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-06-13/news/32220133_1_medical-research-women-doctors-male-doctors
This article shows how men and women in the medical field have differing pays for the same jobs. Check it out!