Gender Pay Inequality
Introduction The presence of the gender wage gap in the American workplace is a highly debated topic in today’s society. Despite their competence to do the job, women in top jobs face gender disparities in income in the United States. The gender wage gap has now been intensively investigated (EPITHET) for several decades, but remains an area of active and innovative research. Many people believe the inequality in gender wage gap is simply a fallacy and has not in fact existed since the Equal Pay Act was enacted in 1963. The period of the strongest wage convergence between men and women was in the 1980s, and progress has been slower and more uneven since then. On one hand, people do not believe in the existence of the wage gap. These
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The only female journalist cited in this research Karin Agness wrote an article entitled “Don’t Buy into the Gender Pay Gap Myth” (2016). Journalists Kweilin Ellingrud and Vivian Riefberg claim that “significant inequality still remains, and it has huge economic costs.” The authors’ purpose is to make their readers aware of the negative implications in order to help them have a better knowledge of the facts. Ellingrud and Riefberg establish an informal and instructive (ANALOGY) tone to convince the readers to look beyond the myths and research the facts. Reporting writer, Kevin Miller, highlights in the issue by organizing the article in terms of the things that do and do not effect wage gap like pay gap by state, wage gap for women of color, numbers by race, the fact that education does not affect the pay gap, and at the end giving ways to help resolve this issue. Miller also uses graphs to show support claims and illustrates and affirms these affects to expose socioeconomic gender pay gap in …show more content…
And many doors will be open to them in the future that won’t be open to less pedigreed or credentialed job applications” (Agness). Agness authenticates these reviews by providing averages, statistics, and theories under whether the wage gap is a myth or not. The author also provides contrasting evidence in the article to point out that,” using the statistic that women make 78 cents on the dollar as evidence of rampant discrimination has been debunked. The statistic doesn’t take into account a lot of choices that women and men make- education, years of experience and hours worked”
The only female journalist cited in this research Karin Agness wrote an article entitled “Don’t Buy into the Gender Pay Gap Myth” (2016). Journalists Kweilin Ellingrud and Vivian Riefberg claim that “significant inequality still remains, and it has huge economic costs.” The authors’ purpose is to make their readers aware of the negative implications in order to help them have a better knowledge of the facts. Ellingrud and Riefberg establish an informal and instructive (ANALOGY) tone to convince the readers to look beyond the myths and research the facts. Reporting writer, Kevin Miller, highlights in the issue by organizing the article in terms of the things that do and do not effect wage gap like pay gap by state, wage gap for women of color, numbers by race, the fact that education does not affect the pay gap, and at the end giving ways to help resolve this issue. Miller also uses graphs to show support claims and illustrates and affirms these affects to expose socioeconomic gender pay gap in …show more content…
And many doors will be open to them in the future that won’t be open to less pedigreed or credentialed job applications” (Agness). Agness authenticates these reviews by providing averages, statistics, and theories under whether the wage gap is a myth or not. The author also provides contrasting evidence in the article to point out that,” using the statistic that women make 78 cents on the dollar as evidence of rampant discrimination has been debunked. The statistic doesn’t take into account a lot of choices that women and men make- education, years of experience and hours worked”