Degrading Women in the Workplace
I am a woman. It is something that I cannot change. In "The Gravity of Pink," Eden Abigail Trooboff writes that women struggle to find an identity in the world. She describes her own experiences, which she encountered as a woman. I also have my own share of experiences.
Over the past several decades, women have succeeded in conquering some of the barriers in the workplace. Equal pay has been the law since l963, but women are still paid less then men, even when they have similar education, skills, and experience. In 1998, women were only earning 73 cents for every dollar earned by men. Over a lifetime, this can add up to a loss of thousands of dollars. (www.aflcio.org/women/equalpay.htm)
Even though I am only eighteen, I have already experienced such limitations in my life. An example of this would be during my senior year of high school where I worked part-time at a convenience store. Among the high school students working......
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