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A 5 page paper. The Equal Pay Act was enacted in 1963. More than four decades later, women still earn considerably less than men. This is a position paper that presents the justifications for this inequity and arguments refuting those 'reasons.' Data regarding the gender wage gap are reported. 1 Table included. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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be violated daily (Lockyer, 2005). Data from the Department of Labor consistently reveal that women who work in the same field and the same number of hours earn less than
males (Lockyer, 2005). At the time the law was enacted, the median average pay for women was 58 percent of what men earned with the same education and in the
same job (National Womens Law Center, 2004). The National Committee on Pay Equity reported that today, "most women would have to work for 16 months to earn the same wages
men earn in 12 months" (Lockyer, 2005, p. 1). In effect, women are working for one-third of a year for free. This is an injustice that must be corrected now.
There can be no more delays. Equal pay is a legal mandate and it is a moral obligation of all employers. It is also a moral obligation of the government
to enforce this law. Arguments against taking immediate and drastic action to correct this inequity cite the progress that has been made in this area. The following table provides data
that reflect the percentage of mens wages women earned in ten-year intervals since 1951 (plus 2004) (U.S. Womens Bureau and the National Committee on Pay Equity, 2004). 1951 63.9% 1961
59.2% 1971 59.5% 1981 59.2% 1991 69.9% 2001 76.3% 2004 77.0% Notice that women earned 63.9 percent of what men earned in 1951; they did not reach that rate
again until 1991 at 69.9 percent. For the four decades between, the gap was greater than in 1951. In 2004, women earned 77 cents for every dollar men earned. According
to some reports, in 2004, women earned 74 percent of what men earned (National Womens Law Center, 2004). As this group points out, the difference between 1963 and 2004, the
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