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 Massachusetts. The Women’s Trade Union League was founded in 1903, it tried to improve wages for working middle-class women. By 1920, 17 states had minimum wage laws. Before the Progressive Era and actually during it, there were really no laws or anything saying you had to pay your workers a minimum wage of any kind. So factories and actually any kind of business usually hired kids or immigrants because they were dumb enough to work for long periods and low low low pay. Business owners thought the workers should of got paid by how good the workers were at their job. So they pretty much paid them as low as pay as possible that they could get away with.
Kids in the family were sent to work at young ages because they were considered part of the family economy. Now-a-days, kids under 16 and 17, there are lots of laws like how long they can work and all the wage laws, there’s too many. But I do know if they aren’t 16, they don’t have to be paid minimum wage.So, everything in a nut shell. Before the Progressive Era, there was no laws for any minimum wage. Of course, like always, women and children get paid less than men back them im assuming. During the Progressive Era, things started to change. Women started taking action and fighting to get a minimum wage law. But even today, women and kids defiantly don't make as much as men.
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