Women President Hillary Clinton

Women employees make less than men in the same job position. “It is an absolute scandal that American women continue to earn just $0.77 for every dollar men earn.” (Sen. Mikulski) There should not be a gender pay gap. Workers should be given salaries based on their work ethics, degrees, and academic credentials.

On the basis of gender, women continue to be paid less for the same work as men; however, women are outnumbered by men in the highest-paying jobs and dominate in the lowest-paying jobs.

Up until the middle of the 1800 women were not aloud to speak publically, vote, and had no influence on public affairs. They were stereotyped, forgotten, and did not have the same rights as men had. They didn’t receive the same education as men had, couldn’t own property, or have any legal rights. People believed that women belonged at home cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children. They believed they had no place to speak their mind or have any influence in public affairs. However, during the pre-Civil war era, women such has Sarah and Angelica Grimké started to fight to change the way people viewed women.

Looking back to high school American history class, one can open the textbook to the reference section and gaze at the page listing all the previous presidents that served: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Barack Obama, etc. The one thing that all the former presidents have in common is that they are all men. Never in the 200-plus years of American history has a woman served as President of the United States. However, according to Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution, “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be

Many of Hillary Clinton’s campaign advertisements bash her opponent, Donald Trump, arguing that he is not the President that parents will want for their daughters. However, neither is Hillary Clinton. While on the surface it looks incredible for women’s rights that a woman is running for the Presidency, Hillary Clinton is the wrong woman. She claims in many of her speeches that she will be a positive role model for young girls, proof that girls can do anything that they set their mind to. However support of Hillary Clinton, simply because she is breaking the tradition of a male candidate, is spreading the message to young women that voting for her because of her gender is more important

Women were not role players in the national government until 1917, but over nearly the past century, the impact women have had on Washington’s politics has begun to unfold into the current role women play in the US government today. Before 1917, no woman had ever been elected to serve and represent their state in Washington, D.C., although many had tried. In 1917, we saw our first congresswoman on the national stage, and throughout the year’s woman have played many roles in government. These roles include service in the House of Representatives, the Senate, many presidents’ cabinets, and other vital roles in our government. Many women have tried and some have come close, but, no woman has ever been able to grab the most illustrious role, the President of the United States. For that matter, no woman has been elected Vice President of the United States. Women will continue to try until they prevail and are chosen to serve as the President of the United States.

But when it comes the opportunities that women have, America is far behind the rest of the world. Of the 196 countries in the world, the United States ranks 69th in the percentage of women in government. Countries that have a higher percentage include Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Uganda (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/9/27/1137274/-The-Gender-Gap-Percentage-of-Women-in-Government-Worldwide-We-re-Number-One-Right-Not-So-Much). And at the parliamentary or congressional level, the United States is even further behind. Rwanda is ranked the highest, with 49% of their parliament, while the US Congress is 19.4% women. But the U.S is not the only country who has its struggles with women in government. Only eleven of the 196 countries have elected a woman to serve as their head of state, and the U.S. is not one of these eleven, all though we did have a female candidate close. Even if Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 election, the U.S. would still be behind in many other categories of women participation in

The inequality of pay between a man and a woman grows when the woman's race is taken into consideration, statistically, white women earn seventy-eight cents, African-American women earn sixty-four cents and Latina women earn fifty-six cents for every dollar earned by a white man as stated on www. whitehouse.gov. This significant wage gap is not just a bunch of numbers -- it has real life consequences that affect real life women: women with growing children to feed, women of color, disabled women, aging women longing retirement, and your own

Gender stereotypes still exist as Catherine Hill stated earlier in this paper. Statistics show that today 45% of women are enrolled in college compared to 38% of men. 36% of women have bachelors degrees compared to 28% of men (time.com). According to Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn (2007 pg. 845) the authors of The Gender Pay Gap, women get paid less because they have over all less experience in the work force. Men have been in the work force from the beginning and women just joined during WWII. Another reason they say is because women also do housework, the more housework they do, the less time they have to spend at their job or doing their job. Also because women are anticipated to have a shorter work life, meaning they will not stay working as long as a male would or stay at the same job for as long as a male would.

Since the 1970’s there have been surveys showing there is a pay gap between men and women. This gap seems to have been decreasing since then but it is still there. There have been social movements over the pay gap issue stating that “in the 1970s was 59 cents on the dollar and a more recent crusade for pay

According to Pew Research even though women are now being paid higher wages on jobs that were previous held by men, such as white collar job like managers they are still being paid less (Patten, 2015).

I believe a presidential candidate should be elected for their qualifications, regardless of their gender. Many people, including Hillary Clinton, say that “it’s about time” that a female should be elected for president. This is hypocritical of Hillary, because as a self-proclaimed feminist, she should believe that a presidential candidate’s gender is irrelevant, assuming they are otherwise eligible for the position. Supporting this ideology is wrong, because many voters are voting for her only because she’s a woman, and because they want a woman in office so desperately, they aren’t considering the qualifications of the other candidates.

Many courageous and even heroic women took part in all these endeavors. But fighting enemies and protecting the nation are overwhelmingly male projects” (Sommers). When people think about famous people who led the world to advancement, they think of mostly men. Time Magazine created a list of “The 100 Most Significant Figure in History” by compiling opinions and data from Wikipedia, and Google searches. Out of 100 people listed three of them were women, and they were Joan of Arc, Elizabeth I of England, and Queen Victoria. On the men’s side were various philosophers, scientists, writers, people influential in politics (Skiena and Ward). While the number of influential women is not equal to the number of influential men, three percent does not seem remotely accurate. It’s not necessarily important to look at the number of women recognized as influential, when what matters is that they are not well known the way men are and have been. Which is a result of arbitrary views of specifying genders, especially with views of women’s roles being supportive, created culturally.

Although biologically this is true, most jobs with the biggest pay gap (particularly in the STEM field) require little physical labor, and instead more education. Another argument is that women typically have less of an education so they don’t deserve as big of a salary. Numerous analyses have shown that women are actually more likely to get a college education. Some people argue that people with a college education should be paid more, because they have to pay off their student debt if they have it, and they spent many hours in school when they could have had an income, but if women are more likely to get an education, why aren’t they getting paid

The political arena is a tough place to be part of, especially during a campaign. Your opponent and their supporters are constantly watching your every move with the hopes that you will make a mistake, or that somebody will find some detrimental dirt on you. Now imagine also being a woman, not only will you have to face the hardships that male candidates cope with but you will also have to handle the adversity based on your gender and the stereotypes that go along with being a female. Women have to be prepared to confront the fact that they may not even be wanted in that setting. For example Margaret Carlson stated,