Allie Witheim Scott Erdiakoff English 124 30 October 2017 Sexism in the Workplace My roughout the United States and the rest of the world, m shh a aiid do jobs every day that are equal to each other. Despite the amaitand women ve may have Atessame amount of skill, and intelligence, men are contin aie" women. Since the year_1970, the wage gap has decreased tr 2016, the average full-time working man would be paid twenty ps working woman throughout the United States. Notice how | women’ instead of “men earned more than women” because bot! jobs, they are each capable of doing the jobs to the same stand jobs to the best of their ability. Uncked States In the WS, New York and California were the two states with <—E oti, average wage gap at eighty-nine and eighty-eight percent equality. the way down to women earning only seventy percent of what men. ah. At this rate men and women will not receive anything close to equal pz year 2119 (“Simple Truth”). As the next generation-6peaple for this country, to take a stand against this now and try to change this, we will never see a di never reach equality. Both men and women do the same amount of workfor the of time a weelyand earn the same amount but are merely paid differently7 Wilhelm 2 2 iy is Some people have been raised with the notion that méd ate all around better than women ingvbcy.Bayieet;and that women are incapable of doing the same jobs as men. However, since the 1970's, women have had to take jobs that were once meant for men and since then, Fae yew avean Wy t4 have proved to be able to do them with the same or even better capabilities. Even with this, men“ have been thought of as to be more qualified andiin the year 2016, women held only 5.2% of CEO positions in S&P 500 companies (“Women Workforce”). fon i vend on ae People throughout the US and rest of the world believe Pa we live in a “man’s world” meaning that everything we do is for a man's profit and for their success. People see men as being the only true benefactor for people and in the media especially, we see men playing the stereotypical roles ofthe high management positions, the hero in movies, the smart one that j figures everything out. When a woman played these roles, the movies do not become as poputar, i they are looked at as boring and illogical. Even the celebrities suffer a significant pay wage with box office men earning $126.1 million while women earn $80.6 million (“Box Office”). We must take a stand to change thiso 4 ct