Gender Inequality Within The United States - 1686 Words

America has advanced socially in regards to sexual equality since the birth of the nation. There have been many advances in society, especially for women despite these advancements, there continues to be inequalities in sexual â€Å"equality† .Why does a wage difference exists between men and women? Are employers being sexist? Sexism has been a problem since the beginning of mankind. Women have struggled to achieve equality with men. The male dominated culture has led the female gender to become the â€Å"weaker sex†. This discrimination, of course, based on the stereotype that women should be stay at home playing the role of the typical house wife. It wasn’t even until the 19th Amendment passed in 1919 that allowed women to vote. Even sex†¦show more content†¦So if this is the problem shouldnt the wage of a male teacher be the same as the one as a female teacher? This is not the case.Male public school teachers earn between 10 to 13 percent more than f emales, on average, and a little more than half of this difference is accounted for by differences in the characteristics of male and female teachers(Gruber,1996).This proves that the reason for the difference in wages is not the fact that women choose low paying jobs but because of the gender difference. Gruber also mentioned that, â€Å" married females receive lower salaries than non married females, while for males, no difference associated with marital status is identified, all else equal.† If the choice of the women really had to do with her pay then why doesn t the male teacher get affected? In this case of both of them being teachers both of them should be getting payed the same amount. As said by Dr. Golding,â€Å"There is a belief, which is just not true, that women are just in bad occupations and if we just put them in better occupations, we would solve the gender gap problem,†(Miller,2014). By saying this she states that the reason there is a difference in wages is not because of the choices in jobs but rather other sexist reasons. This is not fair due to the fact that women are outpacing men in getting college degrees(Glynn, 2012).This