The Equal Pay Act of 1963 requires equal pay for men and women who do the same work. ... This shows that even though women were qualified and working in higher-level paying jobs, they were not being paid the appropriate amount of money they deserved. ... In addition, early on in the United States, there were two different market rate calculations for every job. This meant that employers could pay their female workers the lower female wage rate, even if their jobs were the same as the male workers (Kim 2000, p.98). ... Women are also discriminated against in jobs, such as coaching, because men ...

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Some of the different areas of the law that affect women specifically include: Sex discrimination, equal pay, domestic violence, forcible rape, and equality, to name but a few. ... The government introduced two laws in the 1970's, a relatively short time ago, and long overdue, the Sex Discrimination Act of 1975, and the Equal pay act of 1970, (which was not put into force until 1975). ... However additional rights were introduced concerning pregnancy and maternity leave, The Employment Protection (consolidation) Act, 1978 and the Social Security Act 1986, these two Acts give four rights ...

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The labor union would prefer to see job promotions and raises be given to members with the most seniority. ... Section F There are multiple employee related factors for compensation which include, performance, experience, potential, job evaluation, job requirements and others. Performance is rewarded with a pay increase. The pay increase motivates the worker to continue performing at a high level. A young worker who shows up to work early and leaves when the job is complete would be a performance example. ...

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Sometimes, they face a choice between their jobs and their own safety. ... Sexual discrimination forces women into lower paying jobs, and sexual harassment help keep them there. Seen in this context, male workers who harass a woman on the job are doing more than annoying her, they are creating a climate of intimidation and repression, making the woman hesitant to seek higher paying jobs where she may perceive the tension as even greater. Thus, sexual harassment accomplishes informally what laws against sex discrimination theoretically prohibit; gender-based requirements for a job. ... Women ...

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Jobs are hard to find as it is, with the lack of a stable education a job in nearly impossible to find and keep. ... Without a job there is almost a guarantee that there will be no chance of survival in achieving anything .The only way to pay for things like schools, cars, homes, or even food is by money. ... Transportation to the job will be difficult and strenuous. ... Unlike a wealthy child a poor one will have to get a couple jobs just to pay for tuition. ... What bothers middle class students is that they are too rich to qualify for financial aid but they don't have the money to pa...

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A firm will never pay more for an additional unit of input, whether it is a person or machine that will not increase their profits. ... This pay gap between the genders is slightly more prevalent in the United States than most other countries. ... Some say that it is merely due to the fact that Mexicans are relatively uneducated or not educated enough to fill the more high paying jobs in the market place. ... It must also be brought up that maybe these minority groups simply do not take certain jobs due to nonpecuniary job characteristics. ... An example would be a lot of women would not t...

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Meaning, if people are unable to acquire certain jobs because of the color of their skin, then those people would potentially be unable to desegregate themselves in other facets of life as well. If most of the high paying jobs in our country continued to go to white people, then blacks would still be unable to send their children to expensive universities treat themselves in nicer hospitals, eat in nicer restaurants, etc. ... Once Title VII began to take shape, more and more minorities and women began to receive the jobs that had previously only been offered to white men. ... Jobs and promo...

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Even though you might be the most qualified for the job you still might not obtain the position. ... The debate by most individuals is that I lost my job or pay increase because of affirmative action. ... He states that minorities say they need this to be seen as an equal in an interview for a job. ... Women cannot produce the same amount of body power for a job in which a man can. ... Jobs require strength and brains, not just brains. ...

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Everyday people wake up and go to their jobs to do their work and get a pay check at the end of the day. ... There are some cases that explain this in detail of how jobs and promotions are granted. ... Park believes she received a great job at a big software engineering job at Juno. ... The second case with Lisa Bongiorno, she was convinced to have sex with the threat of losing her job. ... Receiving less pay than the same qualified man at the same position is just wrong and unjust. ...

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Economically, qualified employees are denied decent jobs, advancement and the ability to maintain and pursue a quality discrimination degrades, abuses, belittles ad destroys one's self-esteem. ... Women face considerable barriers in their access to well paying, higher status jobs (Bergen, 1991). Although employment and pay discrimination is prohibited by Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the law did not end the pay discrepancy between men and women. Much of the earnings gap is the result of occupational differences, gender segregation, and women's tendency to interrupt their em...

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Well, if it's people discriminate and pay low monthly salaries to these citizens, their poverty rate will increase and soon the whole nation will be effected by it. The only people that have well-paying jobs are the higher class or the minority. ... While the rich and privileged have steady jobs and comfort. ... "The privileged use all sorts if powers-dispossession, police excesses, denial of jobs or water- to intimidate their inferiors." ... Even though they think it isn't apartheid, there are still those is poverty because they don't have steady , well paying jobs. ...

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I am personally affected by gender inequality on a daily basis from unequal pay in workplace to consumer buying in society. I should not feel like I should have to carry out male characteristics on a job interview to get higher pay or even take my father with me to the car dealer to prevent from being over charged. ... Fourth, we must match like work with like pay wages, encourage equal pay for both men and women. ... Over the years, unbeknownst to her, the company's pay-raise decisions created a growing gap between her wages and those of her male colleagues. ... In opposition to equality...

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Affirmative action has not completely done its job. ... The African American tester in each pair received no job referrals. ... The Caucasian woman declined the job offer. ... Affirmative action has opened workplace doors for people of all colors who have been excluded from better-paying and high-status jobs in the past (Affirmative). ... Although affirmative action has helped so many people, it has not finished its job. ...

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Both men & women are supported by these laws such as Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO), enabling everyone fair & equitable access to jobs, employment conditions, training & promotional opportunities. ... Single parents may find this difficult to leave without pay for a certain period of time & may have to seek government payments to cope with the needs of the child and there self. ... An individual is limited to how much leave you can take on a certain leave & only a certain amount of leave is supported by pay. ... Job security may be risked if more time is needed then offered to overcome ...

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It can be seen in corporate environments as well as minimum wage blue-collar jobs. The glass ceiling can strike in any job, because the discrimination is every where. ... This is especially true in blue-collar jobs. This sometimes leads to bad job performance, acting out at work, and the carrying over into the home. ... As a result, they have been known to disproportionately cluster in "white collar gettos or the bottom tiers of management and lowest paying industries."" ...

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Instead of simply admitting that whites and men get hurt by affirmative action and that this is the price they pay for the sins of their racist and sexist fathers, the proponents of affirmative action have become experts in deceit. ... They feel that their chances at a job are immediately less because businesses have quotas of race to fill. They realize that they may even be more qualified for a job but will lose out because they aren't a minority. ... They are hoping for a color-blind opportunity at a job and that their individual qualifications and personalities can land them ...

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Look at an old sitcom made before the affirmative action law was put into place (the Affirmative Action Law stated that perspective employees, no matter what race, color, sex, creed or national origin could be discriminated when applying for a job) in 1965 to help minorities receive more jobs and better pay (Pioneer 1). ... He also told me that the school was paying for him to live and attend college, and then he started to laugh. ...

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Some female coaches have even received higher pay for their jobs in coaching. ... She said that she was underpaid for the job she did. Her male counterpart was being paid substantially more that her even though they basically did the same job day in and day out. ... Never the less, Tyler started the beginning of a new era in athletics, equal work, equal pay. ...

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She knew that to get a good job that paid decently that she had to further her education just as a man would, but she would not receive money from a college for her outstanding swimming, she had to pay for it herself. ... " (24) However, without a good education they would struggle to get a job that paid decently. This led her to push for the Equal Pay Act, which would not come easy. She proposed the idea of the Equal Pay Act in May 1955. ...

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Through out the 50's protests mainly for equal public schooling and job fairness was common place. ... It is essential for the department to understand the rules for most aspects of the job. ... Affirmative action plans are intended to place woman and minorities in jobs and careers that have historically been closed to them. ... These goals should be based on the availability of qualified minorities and woman for each job. ... While it is commonly acknowledged that affirmative action has gone further to promoting females then minorities, mostly white females, woman still find it difficult...

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Affirmative action is a major issue because it grants access to institutions and jobs based on innate characteristics such as skin color or gender, and not by just merit. ... Similarly, a study done in 1988 found that workplace discrimination was the "number one barrier" for women in achieving future promotions .Even in today's supposedly "more equal" workplace, men in higher-paying jobs are promoted at a rate almost 40% greater than their female counterparts. The types of jobs women have are also limited by their gender: only 3% of firefighters are women, 8% of police...

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Ageism influences the presence of diversity because those who are affected by ageism within their career may lose their job due to newer, younger, cheaper people coming into the workplace to take over their current position. ... With both pension and health care the key issues that will cause issues is that the number of people working and paying taxes to fun pension and health care programs is going to dramatically decrease as the baby boomers retire and as they retire the amount of people uses these services in going to see an increase. ... The ADA provides protection to those with disabili...

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But there are still thousands of examples of situations where people of color, white women, and working class women and men of all races who were previously excluded from jobs or educational opportunities, or were denied opportunities once admitted, have gained access through affirmative action. ... In its modern form, affirmative action can call for an admission officer faced with two similarly qualified applicants to choose the minority over the white, or for a manager to recruit and hire a qualified woman for a job instead of a man. ... Overall, minorities and women are in vastly lower payi...

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Robinson could not be forced to leave an area because men wished to tell sexual jokes or hang sexual calendars if what she was doing was one of her job's duties. ... Robinson was harmed because she was subject to work in conditions where she was uncomfortable and unable to fulfill the duties of her job without discomfort. ... This could cause a problem with her was of life because her pay will be affected. If she can not perform the necessary work she will not receive her pay. ...

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Although, according to Quinn (2002), the criticism is unnecessary because "if done right, affirmative action does not hurt anyone because the job or position goes to the most qualified applicant." ... Those who have had such an experience believe that they have not directly discriminated, so they "should not have to pay any price through programs such as affirmative action" (Feagin, 257). ... This statement reiterates the opposition's belief that you cannot be equal in jobs if you are not equal in IQ. ...

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