It seems obscured to me that as the year of 2014 is coming to a close, that women rights in the work place is still a common topic in the social justice aspect. Although there has been much improvement on women's rights since 1919 when the 19th amendment was passed to give women the right to vote. Currently in todays society women are still looked down upon compared to men when it comes to a place in certain job fields. It is still believed that men can do many things better then women, although despite hundreds of experiments and proof that men and women have many different strengths and weaknesses. Women have been fighting for years to have equal pay as men, even while completing and working the exact same job, and finishing the same amount of criteria and work needed. On average it is recorded that women only earn 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. Although on April 8th, 2014, President Obama signed an executive actions aimed at closing a compensation gender gap that favors men. The main excuse used by employers about women not given the same chance as men in the work place is that they are considered more unreliable. Employers believe that since women are more of the care givers of the family, that they are more likely to miss work in order to take care of the children, and an even larger issue is maternity leave. The price the business has to deal with when a women is out of work for maternity leave isn't only the money still sent to the new mother, but also the work that has to be put on other workers in order to pick up the slack from her absence. Despite these difficulties a corpperation might have to face do to the women's absence, it should not infringe on her chances of finding a job and should not effect the amount of pay she will receive.
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