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You get what you pay for. Companies should not be changing their pay scales based on a persons identity. If you are doing your job, you should get what they would pay anyone else to do it. The sad truth is, this does not happen, and it's not isolated to just a person's sex. You can see this trend in schooling factors as well. Even if someone has been on the job for fifteen years, someone could walk in off the street holding a diploma and suddenly make more than you, and do less work. In fact, that person has less real world experience, but because they sat in a class room, they get more dough.

Somewhere along the line someone determined that women should get paid less to work in a mans world. Partly due to the fact that we women jumped at the chance to work, and would do it for almost nothing, just to say we could. Now, we are stuck and are expected to continue taking what they are willing to give. It also depends on what line of work you are in. If a 90 pound girl is hired to throw freight off a truck for ten hours a night, she will more than likely throw less than her male counterparts. Even though she is working just as hard, some may say even harder, yet she IS slower than other workers. If she can't keep up her numbers, should she still be getting equal pay? I would say no, again you get what you pay for. There are some jobs that some women simply cannot do. Not because they don't want to, they are just physically unable to perform like a man can.

Pushing papers though, that another all together. There are women out there with the brains to do anything in a company and they should be sharing the wealth with the top men they are working along side. I don't think this will happen until women start standing up and demanding to be treated fairly. We cannot sit idly by hoping for change. We got the right to vote because a group of hard headed women didn't settle for being told no. They took action. Today, people like to bitch and moan but thats all they do, and then everyone wonders why things don't get better.

If women started demanding equal pay, and stuck to that, instead of taking what they are being given companies would have to increase their pay. Today, they need the woman in the workplace, we are no longer stay at home moms, that do nothing but cook. We are strong and extremely smart individuals that can start, and run whole companies, not just nationwide but world wide. We are the only ones that can get us out of the box we have allowed ourselves to be put into in the first place.

America is the land of opportunity if you are willing to fight for what you want. No one has to do anything they don't want, and that includes being fair.

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