In Mrs. Burrows’ Seventh Grade English Class, I Wrote A Paper Entitled Women Vs.

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Term Paper Title	In Mrs. Burrows’ Seventh Grade English Class, I Wrote A Paper Entitled Women Vs.
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In Mrs. Burrows’ seventh grade English class, I wrote a paper entitled Women vs. Men in the Work Force.  I researched for weeks and weeks to get all of the information I could on pay differences, percentages of working women and what jobs they were doing.
In 1988, my paper focused on sexual discrimination and the wage difference. For example, in 1998, “women received 63% of the pay men received for the same job.”  I remember finding that out and asking my dad why that was happening.  My father, parent of two daughters who instructed them never to be dependent on a man, did not have a good explanation for this inequality.
     Sexual discrimination was just starting to be a hot topic in 1988.  Here is my favorite quote from my paper:
“Sixty-two percent of working women who are employed full-time believe that discrimination prevents them from getting top jobs in business and government.  Sexual discrimination seems to occur the most.  For example, one female executive on her way to the top told of how she fought back.  She and some of her male colleagues were in a business meeting when they started to kid her about her short skirts.  In reaction to their joking, she put a shapely leg up onto the table and asked her challenger whether or not he saw anything wrong with it.  This unusual comeback won her points from her adversaries. Women who have reached top corporate positions have said that getting used to such joking is one of the hardest problems to overcome in an executive job.”

Joking is one of the hardest problems to overcome in an executive job?  It seems so trivial compared to issues such as the slowly shrinking wage gap, new family-friendly company benefits, and the ever popular catch phrase the “glass-ceiling”.
     I have found that the three P’s are main issues for today’s working woman trying to have it all.  The three P’s are Pay, Position and Parenting.

I. Pay

     Despite the fact that the Equal Pay Act was signed more than 35 years ago, full-time working women between the ages of 25 and 35 earn only 84% of the weekly earnings of men their age.  Alexis Herman, Secretary of the US Department of Labor, has the following to say: “This generation of women has invested greatly in education, returned quickly to the labor force after child birth, held more full time jobs and sought more nontraditional jobs than any in our nation’s history.  Their mere presence in the labor force has transformed our work culture, spurred new industries, and infused the...

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