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Interview with my mom
1. Do you think that the gender gap exists?
"Yes, in certain professions it does."
2. Should the pay gap be eliminated?
"I think everyone should be paid based on how well they perform at their job. If a man is doing a better job he should be paid more, and if a women does a better job she should be paid more; it should not be based on gender."
This poster from WWII as been shown everywhere for years, but has anyone thought about what Rosie the Riveter means today? Answer: the same thing. She still calls for women to enter the workforce, only now she also stands for asking for equality.
Context
Growing up, I was always told I could be whatever I wanted. Everyone I knew told me that, and I was surrounded by women who previously had their own careers before settling down to raise a family. Two different best friend's mom were a lawyers, and my mom worked as a government contractor who had also sailed in the America's Cup on the B team. So I never was told that girls couldn't do something as well as boys.
What occupations would lead to a gender gap because of the nature of the work being done all else equal? Would it still be fair to have to pay equal amount?
The business world tends to have some of the largest gaps, however if the gap is due to the work being something like construction, where men are more likely to be employed because of their strength, it is more about the quality of the work. Construction workers tend to be paid around $30,000 a year which is on the lower end of the pay scale. I believe if a woman is doing just as good of a job as a man, she deserves to be paid equally.
Remix
So last unit in class, we had to first write as many facts as possible about a person, real or imaginary and then we switched facts with another person and we had to write our research paper directed to that person. Now I'm not going to write what I wrote for that here, and I'm not going to give random facts about my brother, but I am going to talk about how that exercise impacts this blog. I wrote nothing about the pay gap or inequality in the work place, so I can't tie it in that way, but it is making me think about who I am writing to on this blog. I don't have a target audience and I know that my only followers are my classmates and they aren't going to read this because I know I wouldn't in their situation. So I hope that anyone not in English writing 112 reading this bears with me as I stumble through this attempt at tumbling.
Why should women be paid equal to men? Men have been in the working world a lot longer and deserve to be paid at a higher rate. Heck, I’m a working mom and I’m not paid a dime. I depend on my husband to provide for me and my family, as should most women… and if a woman does work, she should be happy just to be out there in the working world and quit complaining that she’s not making as much as her male counterparts. I mean really, all this wanting to be equal nonsense is going to be detrimental to the future of women everywhere. Who’s going to want to hire a woman, or for that matter, even marry a woman who thinks she is the same, if not better than a man at any job. It’s almost laughable. C’mon now ladies, are you with me on this?
Ann Romney
Wow. I mean good for her for being proud of the fact that her job is being a mother and she doesn't get paid for it, but is it really that strange to believe that you are equal to your male coworkers? And why was marriage even mentioned in this?
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions -- and offers 3 powerful pieces of advice to women aiming for the C-suite.
This shows how barely any women make it to the top of any profession and how those who do have to choose between family and work.
April 9, 2013 is Equal Pay Day, and it represents how far into 2013 women must work simply to earn what their male counterparts earned in 2012. Due to the…
Here's an infographic showing the pay gap over time. It also shows how the jobs that actually women more than men are the professions where there are way less women than men.
