Wikipedia The Equal Pay Act 1970 is an Act of the United Kingdom Parliament which prohibits any less favourable treatment between men and women in terms of pay and conditions of employment. It was passed by Parliament in the aftermath of the 1968 Ford sewing machinists strike[1][2][3][4] and came into force on 29 December 1975. The term pay is interpreted in a broad sense to include‚ on top of wages‚ things like holidays‚ pension rights‚ company perks and some kinds of bonuses. The legislation has
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2014 Inequality of Women and Men Men and women are two very different yet very equal genders of human society. Both women and men are very much identical in the forms of command and potential. However‚ yet despite this‚ based on various forms of media and evidence based research‚ it is shown that women are treated differently than men‚ insisting that both sexes are essentially different. (Women & Men) In the past‚ women were treated differently than men because most women were not
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Men‚ Women‚ and Unequal Pay For many years‚ women have been treated unfairly in the workplace; whether it is through a form of discrimination‚ harassment‚ or unequal pay. Women who are in the same position are paid less than their male counterparts. This is a major issue in the business world but it is also a problem in sports and the medical field. This problem is known as a gender gap‚ any difference between the characteristics of men and women in areas such as educational accomplishment‚ wage
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finding jobs is very difficult for these work-seeking women. “The supposed pay gap appears when marriage and children enter the picture. Child care takes mothers out of the labor market‚ so when they return they have less work experience than similarly-aged males. Many working mothers seek jobs that provide greater flexibility‚ such as telecommuting or flexible hours. Not all jobs can be flexible‚ and all other things being equal‚ those which are will pay less than those that do not.” (Perry/Biggs). In
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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
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Management (LUBS5365M) Assignment One: Explain why inequalities in pay persist in the UK labour market and how these can be addressed with reference to legislation‚ social policy and other factors. Submission Date: 12/03/2014 Word Count: 2992 Introduction In current society‚ the gender equalities in pay are obviously in most countries‚ especially in UK labour market‚ it is one of the highest gender pay gap in European Union (Rubery‚ 1998). OECD (2013) represent
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major problem beyond the political differences‚ trillion dollar debts‚ and the country tearing itself apart. That problem is inequality. The same inequality which existed in the 1900s exist today. Women are not getting paid equal‚ even though men and women both do the amount of work. This is alarming since if in over a hundred years the United States has not solved a simple human rights issue‚ then what will happen when a major humanitarian issue arises. The other disquieting thought from pay inequality
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The Pay Gap Needs to Stop Imagine getting treated less than an equal‚ just because you are a woman. Should men honestly receive a higher wage than women for doing the same job? On average a woman earns 77 cents to every dollar a man makes (Boushey‚ Arons‚ and Smith). A woman gets paid less to work just as hard as a man if not harder. This is not fair. Men and women should receive equal pay. In the U.S. there are about 10 million single. These mothers struggle to make end meet‚ due to the facts that
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to Equal Pay – Does the Equal Pay Act Work in a Women’s Favor?” Keisha L Boyd Total Compensation HRA-360-DL01_2011SP2 April 24‚ 2011 “A Women’s Right to Equal Pay – Does the Equal Pay Act Work in a Women’s Favor?” The issue of women and pay has stroke many controversies since time immemorial. Between the years 1950 and 1960‚ statistics show that men were getting between a percentage on 50 and 60 dollars more than the women were. It is also evident that most employers would prefer men than women
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Gender Pay Gap Existence Argument Many problems exist in our modern society‚ one of which is the unequal pay rates of men and women. This "gender pay gap" has been cause for many debates over the years but the simple fact of the matter is that a difference between men and women’s salary most certainly exists even in the present day. Regardless of this empirical fact many parties still argue that a pay gap does not exist. The major argument used to debate said non existence of a gender specific
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