According to AAUW (American Association of University Women) , an organization promoting the quality and education for women and girls, “While more education is an effective tool for increasing earnings, it is not an effective tool against the gender pay gap.” (AAUW). Women around the world have been facing the Gender Discrimination for many decades. . It has been in the last 100 years of human history , that the women across the world gained the basic civil and political right to vote (Woman all Around
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the passing of the equal pay act, the median weekly earnings of women is still just seventy eight cents on each dollar that men earn (Center for American Progress, 2010). To put this in context, the pay gap in 1970 was sixty two cents and in 1992 it was seventy five cents (Institute for Women’s Research, 1993). Undervaluation of women’s work, occupational gender segregation, and discriminatory treatment in the workplace continue to hamper efforts to reduce the gender pay gap. A pay check is women’s
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Discrimination In the Workplace i Sex and Gender Discrimination in the Workplace Discrimination in the Workplace 1 Sex and Gender Discrimination in the Workplace In the early nineteen hundreds women did not have rights and experienced sex discrimination. They were not allowed to be educated, vote, or work outside the home except as maids or nannies. It has been an uphill battle to attain these
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judicial interference.1 Notwithstanding the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1870, the first effective antidiscrimination employment statute was a long time in coming. The first fed- eral legislation to deal directly with the issue of discrimination was the Equal Pay Act of 1963 (see Chapter 18 for more details). The statutory right to equality was expanded beyond the issue of pay less than a year later by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII is the basis for discrimination law and
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the industry that helps in identifying the different aspects of pay: The Fair Labor Standards Act: This Act is important because it involves legislations concerning the total compensation plan for the small business owners and companies. “This law involves five major compensation laws that administer minimum wage, equal pay, overtime pay, child labor, and record keeping requirements” (Cahn & Donald, 2010, p. 25). The Equal Pay Act (1963): This law is an amendment to the FLSA and restricts any
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Women and Equal Rights Sharon Edick Kaplan University Women and Equal Rights On August 26, 2011 women celebrated the 91st anniversary of a victory that took more than 70 years of political struggle to achieve, the right to vote. After this victory was achieved, socialist feminist Crystal Eastman stated “that although suffrage was an important first step what women really wanted was freedom” and she actually laid out a plan that is still relevant today. She outlined a four point program of
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in the 1960s to help women have equal treatment within the workplace and are enforced by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Two specific federal laws that I want to bring up are the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC were given jurisdiction to prosecute Dukes vs. Wal-mart case based off of those laws. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 1981 et seq., (Title VII) and the Equal Pay Act of 1963, 29 U.S.C. § 206(d), (EPA)
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information about the vacancy therefore it will then atract the right people. Furthermore when a business creates job adverts they must try to consider all legislations and ethical issues because if they dont a business can be sued and will have to pay a lot of money. National minimum Wage in the UK National minimum wage is the wage that employees would get, these figures are released by the government and the wages do vary depending on the age of the employees. For a businees like Tescos
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followed is the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) prescribes standards for wages and overtime pay, which affect most private and public employment. The act is administered by the Wage and Hour Division. It requires employers to pay covered employees who are not otherwise exempt at least the federal minimum wage and overtime pay of one-and-one-half-times the regular rate of pay. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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employees against unfair treatment. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a key point in history and instrumental in protecting the rights of individuals from employment discrimination. Title VII of the legislation was designed to protect U.S. employees. This Title also established the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission with the intent to protect U.S. employees from discrimination as the body to enforce the provisions of the law. Equal employment opportunity was further enhanced in 1965
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