Wages, chapter 9

Okay, if your reading this and you are or haven’t been a teenager already, then you’ve most likely have been one before. Over all what I got from all of my research, was that in the early 1900's and even today, there is sex discrimination in the work force. Not only women are not getting paid fair, but so are teenagers and people of other races. Today a full-time working women only receives 77 cents of every dollar a full-time man makes. In 1964 a full-time working woman only received 59 cents of every dollar a full-time man makes. How unfair, like really. Discrimination is sooo bad today and people aren’t realizing how bad it is. Like I didn't even realize it until I did this project how unfair wages were.

The Equity Pay Act was established in 1963, it was pretty much to help the difference between men and women’s pay. Even now, the pay gap still hasn’t been improved much. The Minimum Wage Law was first enacted in 1912 by Massac
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