Pay Gap

ENC 1102 Remediation

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What is the Pay Gap?

It is 87 cents to every dollar earned by a man.

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Who is affected?

Most single-mother families 

Women in the corporate world

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Although the majority of women are paid less, men can be paid less in certain jobs (i.e. Teachers, and Social work).

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Why should we care about the gap?

It effects every woman you know:

Your mother could be passed up in promotions.

Their raises could be only to raise them to what their male colleague is paid.

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Single Mother Struggle

30.4% of single mothers living in poverty whereas the single father counterpart is at 18.8% living in poverty; which means that 4.17 million single mothers households live in poverty.

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JFK signed the Equal Pay Act into law closing the wage gap slightly.

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discrimination on account of sex in the payment of wages by employers engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce.

Equal Pay Act -- Kennedy Era (1960-1963)

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Legislation helped slightly. It reduced the pay gap but we are still far off from equal.

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Awareness is the Future!

Making generations today aware will allow them to welcome business consciousness by bringing equality to the corporate world and continuing this consciousness into everyday life.

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Let’s change this stereotype!