Gender Inequality And The Wage Gap Amongst Executives

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quality by enforcing the constitutional right to vote, conferring jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, authorizing the Attorney General to institute suits to protect constitutional rights in public facilities and public education, extending the Commission on Civil Rights, preventing discrimination in federally assisted programs, and establishing a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity. Yet, artificial barriers to the elimination of discrimination in compensation based upon sex continue to exist more than three decades after the passage of section 6(d) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (Norten, Harkin, 2001) These artificial barriers are social institutions. They are the invisible bricks added each day to the wall preventing women from being paid as much as men.
Although the Fair Pay Act does not directly address female executives, it offers another step toward wage equality that former bills have f...