#evogel303

"I think everyone should be paid based on how well they perform at their job. If a man is doing a better job he should be paid more, and if a women does a better job she should be paid more; it should not be based on gender."

This poster from WWII as been shown everywhere for years, but has anyone thought about what Rosie the Riveter means today? Answer: the same thing. She still calls for women to enter the workforce, only now she also stands for asking for equality. 

Growing up, I was always told I could be whatever I wanted. Everyone I knew told me that, and I was surrounded by women who previously had their own careers before settling down to raise a family. Two different best friend's mom were a lawyers, and my mom worked as a government contractor who had also sailed in the America's Cup on the B team. So I never was told that girls couldn't do something as well as boys.

The business world tends to have some of the largest gaps, however if the gap is due to the work being something like construction, where men are more likely to be employed because of their strength, it is more about the quality of the work. Construction workers tend to be paid around $30,000 a year which is on the lower end of the pay scale. I believe if a woman is doing just as good of a job as a man, she deserves to be paid equally.

So last unit in class, we had to first write as many facts as possible about a person, real or imaginary and then we switched facts with another person and we had to write our research paper directed to that person. Now I'm not going to write what I wrote for that here, and I'm not going to give random facts about my brother, but I am going to talk about how that exercise impacts this blog. I wrote nothing about the pay gap or inequality in the work place, so I can't tie it in that way, but it is making me think about who I am writing to on this blog. I don't have a target audience and I know that my only followers are my classmates and they aren't going to read this because I know I wouldn't in their situation. So I hope that anyone not in English writing 112 reading this bears with me as I stumble through this attempt at tumbling.

Wow. I mean good for her for being proud of the fact that her job is being a mother and she doesn't get paid for it, but is it really that strange to believe that you are equal to your male coworkers? And why was marriage even mentioned in this?

This shows how barely any women make it to the top of any profession and how those who do have to choose between family and work.

Here's an infographic showing the pay gap over time. It also shows how the jobs that actually women more than men are the professions where there are way less women than men.