Week 4

My Eureka moment of the week actually was over the weekend while I was doing my final project research. I watched a video I found on Youtube of President Obama and his equal pay legislation into affect. After watching to video and hearing Lilly Ledbetter I really was speechless. I had never realized how much employers discriminated against paying women an equal amount of money. I didn’t realize that not getting paid the same amount limits their pension funds and Social Security. All I could think about was her southern voice and talking about how she was not compensated for her hard work that was equal to her fellow males job. How could America be such a place to do such a thing? I still don’t understand this at all. And then another video I found was a women doing a “man’s job” while working on the new Yankee stadium. Well her words were “I am finally living the American Dream”. Every person should be living the American Dream from the day they are born. To be in your 30’s with kids and now only feeling like your living that dream is what dumb founded me. These two videos showed me how unfair we have been as a community to women. And to think Lilly could not be compensated for the $200,000 she lost in wages. I think this was horrendous and I am glad I worked n this project. I didn’t learn and realize as much now how badly equal pay has been. And to think it still is going on today. It’s only been 40 odd years since an equal pay act has been put into legislation and we, as a society still can’t compensate women equally. Is it just me or do not only women but men need to join forces in the help to stop inequalities between genders. To me I saw a different light and would do anything to get them where they need to be. A lot of men could care less, but sincerely after reading about this topic I had my Eureka moment!!