Recent conversations with female students in women centered universities highlight that pay equity is not just a women's issue, but that it is every person's issue. Some reasons why both men and women should work toward pay equity, closing the gender wage gap would result in significant economic growth, gender-based salary discrimination negatively affects regional competitiveness, gender-based salary discrimination negatively affects household earnings, in households where college-educated women are sole wage earners, and equal pay is an issue of fundamental fairness and an affirmation of equal economic rights. (Lowe)
Even though some members of the government have tried very hard at trying to lower the pay gap, many United States Republicans have down voted some equal pay bills that the government wants to put into place. This puts a burden on trying to lower the pay gap and this was evident in an article I read that shows some of the Republican Party members are trying to actually blame women for the pay gap…