Argumentative Essay On Equal Pay

In the United States, equal pay for equal work has been a controversial topic since the Equal Pay Act of 1963 was passed. It was aimed to abolish wage disparity based on sex. In a study in 2015, female full-time workers made only 80 cents for every dollar earned by men, a gender wage gap of 20 percent. The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR). As indicated by their studies, if change proceeds at an indistinguishable moderate pace as it has for the last fifty years, it will take 44 years—or until 2059—for ladies to at long last achieve pay equality. IWPR's yearly sheet on the sex wage gap by occupation demonstrates that ladies procure less than men in any occupation (Hayes & Hegewisch, 2015). The Equal Pay Act requires that men and
Women’s Soccer team fighting for the same pay as the Men’s team. The Women’s team claimed that U.S. Soccer would not even put the same wage as the Men’s team on the table for them. Athletes on the U.S. Women’s Soccer team Carli Lloyd, Becky Sauerbrunn, Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe, and Hope Solo all filed a federal complaint that accused U.S. Soccer of wage discrimination. They earned significantly less money—roughly a quarter less, according to the complaint—despite dramatically outperforming the men’s national team, and despite producing nearly $20 million more in revenue for U.S. Soccer than what the men’s team brought in (Thomas, 2016). Personally, I believe that it is important to have equality in all workplaces if someone is performing essentially the same job. As a softball player, I have seen the disparity with inequality. There is a huge difference in the way baseball and softball are shown. Professional softball players do not get paid nearly as much as professional baseball players do. They are less recognized. So I admire what the U.S. Women’s Soccer team did because I believe that they deserve the same amount of respect and pay as any man who is performing the same