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Thesis:  On June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed The Equal Pay Act into law. The act was supposed to prevent gender discrimination with regard to employee wages. Put plainly, women shall receive the identical earnings as their male counterparts for the same job. The Equal Pay Act For Women And Women Working Under The Same Employer2361 Words | 10 Pages legislation that would guarantee equal pay to both men and women working under the same employer. However, to this present day, women still only make, on average, 77 cents to every dollar that a male earns with women of color at an even greater disadvantage with 64 cents on the dollar for African American women and 56 cents for Hispanic women.”
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 According to the National Women’s Center, women of color account for 17 percent of the overall workforce, but make up 33 percent of some of the fastest-growing low-wage jobs like retail, fast food, personal care aides, and home health aides. This means that women of color are overrepresented in jobs that pay the federal minimum wage of just $7.25 per hour.(2021) Equal pay for equal work is not a reality for many people of color. When we control for education, years of experience, occupation, and other compensable factors, most men and women of color still earn less than white men. (2020 Racial Wage Gap – Compensation Research from PayScale, 2021)
Reference: PayScale. 2021. 2020 Racial Wage Gap – Compensation Research from PayScale.  [Accessed 14 May 2021].
Nationalpartnership.org. 2021. [Accessed 14 May 2021].

Countercliam
When you compare men and women with comparable educations at the beginning of their careers, working full-time in the same occupation and sector, the gender gap in earnings has largely disappeared in many advanced industrial economies. Same education, same work, same wage.Five to ten years later, often after the arrival of children, the gender gap in earnings appears. A non-existent wage gap becomes a significant and growing wage gap.
Women often choose to move to part-time employment or to step out out of a career promotion pathway in order to have more time for motherhood and childcare when their children are young. If they return to work full-time, they are often forced to accept a lower wage compared to the wage they would have earned had they stayed in their original job.
There is a significant amount of work associated with running a household and raising children. That work exists. And right now, not just in advanced industrial countries but around the world, that work is disproportionately done by women. And it’s not paid.