Wage Gap

Women have been fighting for equal pay since 1963. EPA which is to prohibit discrimination on account of sex in the payment of wages by employers engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce. It is now 2018 and women are still being underpaid there has been small change in new york.

In 2014 Obama former president was trying to have fair pay and safe workplace after in 2010 there was information showing that companies had many violations. March 27, President Trump revoked the 2014 Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces order. Noreen Farrell, director of the anti-sex discrimination law firm Equal Rights Advocates, said Trump went “on the attack against workers and taxpayers.

President Obama put in place to ensure that companies with federal contracts comply with 14 labor and civil rights laws. The Fair Pay order was put in place after a 2010 Government Accountability Office investigation showed that companies with rampant violations were being awarded millions in federal contracts. The Fair Pay order included two rules that impacted women workers: paycheck transparency and a ban on forced arbitration clauses for sexual harassment, sexual assault or discrimination claims.

Gender pay gap also grows with age and differences among older workers are considerably larger than gaps among younger workers. Women and men as they get older full time workers earnings increase more slowly after age 45 and even decrease after age 55. In 2016 women ages 20–24 were paid 96 percent of what men were paid, decreasing to 78–89 percent from age 25 to age 54. By the time workers reach 55–64 years old, women are paid only 74 percent of what men are paid.

Women working full time in 2016 in the United States are paid just 80 percent of what men were paid a gap of 20 percent. The wage gap has decreased since the 1970s because of the large amount of women’s progress in education. Also workforce participation and to men’s wages rising at a slow rate. The pay gap does not seem likely to decrease over time at the rate of change between 1960 and 2016, women are expected to reach pay equity with men in 2059. Even that slow progress has stalled for years. If change continues at the slow rate seen since 2001, women will not reach pay equity with men until 2119.