Do you belive In Equal Pay For Equal Work For Women?

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MSS

YES... but in real life this is NOT happening. According to statistic Canada, women, black and other minority men/women earn far less for their educational qualifications in Canada. *YES THIS IS TODAY'S NEWS!

Here the link on racist Canada: http://reporter.mcgill.ca/2008/11/experts-weigh-in-on-english-debates-and-wage-racism/

It reads:

Black Montrealers still earn substantially less than whites, The Gazette reported earlier this week. â€œThe data demonstrate that blacks have dramatically lower incomes than non-blacksâ€¦ at every age and even among university graduates,â€ the study by McGillâ€™s Consortium for Ethnicity and Strategic Social Planning states. â€œNo matter how you cut it, blacks earn less than non-blacks, irrespective of age, gender, occupation and level of bilingualism,â€ consortium director Jim Torczyner, a McGill social work professor, told Jeff Heinrich of The Gazette after presenting the findings. The studyâ€™s preliminary findings were released this week at a Quebec Human Rights Commission conference on discrimination in the workplace and were based on the 2006 federal census.

cane z

yes. this has not happened because its a man's world.

Physics 101

Yes...duh

imavirgo85

Yes i beleive that people are equal and should recieve equal pay it should not matter your sex when doing work as long as the job gets done properly then same pay is in order, However if the woman does not do a good enough job as the man her pay should be cut based on quality of work and this goes vise versa too.

meelio@rocketmail.com

Of course there should be equal pay for equal work, and it's not just limited to men and women, different classes and different races also face this problem. No I do not believe that it is happening yet, although it has gotten better over the years.

Griff

Yes, I believe there should be equal pay for equal work.
But it a lot of situations, a woman has to work much harder to get that position/job and therefore isn't truly doing the same work, but more-so

kent_shakespear

Yes.
this has not happened since the Industrial Revolution through traditional family economics out of whack. The 'moral economy' that preceded it was based on the assumption that compensation should allow one to support themselves. The Industrial Revolution first began to replace traditinoal women's economic contributions: the making of clothing and household goods... thus undervaluing women's economic lives before doing similar to the men, and setting the stage for the continuation of unequal pay into current (or in a few cases recent) times.

Much of what femininsts argue for is a restoration of rights and voice that did exist in some form or another before the 1850s (roughly), and the anti-feminist "traditional values" crowd focuses only on an era when actual traditional values were already thrown into flux.

Andy

I believe in equal pay for equal work, period. And the controversy is no longer limited to gender or race inequality - that's a given. The problem is defining "Equal work". For example, the work of a garbage man is just as important as the work of a policeman. Imagine what would happen if all the garbagemen stopped working. But the salaries are very different. So defining "equal work" is the real challenge.

Dangermanmi6

equal pay for equal work yes of course it is only right if two people are doing the same job they should be paid the same. I share an office with a female doing the same job that I do but I do get paid more than her only because I've been doing the job longer and I've topped out on my level and she has a couple of more to match me and at that point we will be equal.

However where I do draw the line is equal pay for work of equal value who decides what is of equal value. The flight attendant has more of an impact on the quality of the flight than the air traffic controller but the ATC gets paid way more.

mj_puce

Taking rights away from men by wanting to have equal rights? I'm sorry this is a stupid question. No I want to be paid half of what a man is paid but work harder, and wash my husband's dirty underwear when I come home. What do you think? DUH.

Why are women on average paid less then men? I don't know why. Just a prejudice because employers can get away with it. Statistics show on average, women earn 77 cents to a man's dollar.

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