性别歧视.pdf

Gender Discrimination
Gender discrimination, also known as sexual discrimination, is the
practice of letting a psks inappropriate and unnecessary questions about a
female employee's sex life.
A manager who touches his female employees in inappropriate ways
without consent.
thanks to the efforts of Representative Martha Griffiths and others, the
revised bill was passed into law.
During World War II, when many women worked at jobs traditionally
held by men while the men fought in the war, there had been an attempt
by the National War Labor Board to get companies to pay women the
same rate as men, but that attempt failed miserably.
The Equal Pay Act of 1963 was intended to end that discrepancy. The law
stated that "no employer… shall discriminate, within any establishment in
which such employees are employed, between employees on the basis of
sex by paying wages to employees in such establishment at a rate lessthan the rate at which he pays wages to employees of the opposite sex in
such establishment for equal work on jobs the performance of which
requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed
under similar working conditions."
The Equal Pay Act officially gives women protection under the law in
regards to equal pay for equal work, but inequities still exist in almost
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