Today, Women Need to Demand Equal Pay
Jenna Goudreau
Forbes.com
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Democratic Senator
Gillibrand of New York stated “It’s illegal to discriminate against women in
pay,” she said, “and if we have better enforcement mechanisms, we can hold more
companies accountable” (Goudreau). The Equal Pay Act was passed in 1963 by
President John F. Kennedy. This is when the issue of equal pay in the workplace
should have been fixed; however, employers just simply seem to feel that it is
acceptable to overlook a law and continue to break it. Since the Equal Pay Act
in 1963 “the gap has been closing at a rate of less than half a cent per year... At this rate, women’s pay will not catch up to men’s for another
40 years” (Goudreau). Fifty years is long enough of a wait. It is time that
people begin to recognize this law and abide by it. We will not wait a total of
90 years from the initial attempt to give women fair pay before we actually
reach our goal. Since the Equal Pay Act didn’t fully accomplish what it intended
to, it is time to turn to the The
Paycheck Fairness Act and work to get it passed. ““Women need to demand equal pay,” said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
“Women are the most significant economic engine in the U.S. Pay women equally
and it would raise the GDP [(Gross Domestic Product)] by up to 9%”” (Godreau).
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