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Essay on equal pay in the work place.





In 1963, President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, making it unlawful to discriminate against a worker on the basis of sex. Since that time, the wage gap between men and women in the United States has narrowed by just 15 cents, now being 74 cents, as reported by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Pay equality is most prevalent for the 16 to 24 age group, in which women earn more than 90 percent of what men do; however, the gap becomes 75 percent in the 25 to 54 year old group – those at the height of their careers and life responsibilities.

A number of factors have contributed to the gap between men's and women's wages. These include: occupational segregation of women into low paying jobs; lower levels of unionization for women and attitudinal barriers that have kept women from achieving equality in the workplace and undervaluation for women's work.

The Equal Pay Act (part of the Fair Labor Standards Act), forbids......

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Approximate Word Count: 1060
Approximate Pages: 5 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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