Women Wages Lower Than the Male Counterpart
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Article Rebuttal
Women Wages Lower Than the Male Counterpart
Deanna Cain
University of Phoenix, Axia
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This article was found on the Internet; Time U.S. “Why Do Women Still Earn Less Than Men?”, by Laura Fitzpatrick on Tuesday April 20, 2010 arguing that women today still only earn seventy seven percent per dollar that the male makes, and goes on to show discrimination in wages to be far worse according to ethnics.
According to U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (2012), “Equal Pay Act requires that men and women in the same workplace be given equal pay for equal work”, and also states that “the job does not have to be identical, but substantially equal. The content of the job determines rather or not the job is substantially equal, not the job title”. (Equal Pay/Compensation Discrimination).
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission web site is a reliable, credible, and valid site to investigate the truth around fare pay Acts, and the reliability, credibility and validity of this author’s article can not be founded do to the lack of supporting data, and only incorporating a few opinions.
Although many articles were produced written by the authors that Laura Fitzpatrick had listed as sources were found; not one was found on the subject of women wages being less than male wages, therefore could not be substantiated.
Faulty comparisons suggest that similarities outweigh differences and unique situations can be treated the same. (Cheesebro, Oconnor, &