WHY SHOULD WE CARE
Why should be care about the gender gap in
America? Why should be care that women make on averages 79cent to every $1 a man
earns? These questions boasts a philosophical approach. It is the same as the
answers to; Why should we end slavery? Why should African American (and any
other minority) get the right to vote? Why should they have any rights? Are they
not equally inferior to the white race? Believe it or not these were real
questions and reasoning behind subjugating and dismissing minority and indeed
allowing slave trade in America in the early colonial days.
But some of our most enlightened founding fathers decided that the Constitution applied to ALL men,
“that ALL men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their creator with
certain unalienable Rights” These rights were extended first to African American
men, and then to women when the Supreme court chose to interpret the Constiution
as thus, and when Congress decided to pass Amendments guaranteeing these
unalienable rights to these disenfranchised minority groups. The
14thAmendment guaranteeing these rights to all men and women was passed on July 1868 and yet
still 144 years later these groups and indeed women are still fighting for their
equal rights. We have had legislature after legislature passed again and again
reaffirming these rights and punishing those who would try to ignore them. Why
should we care?
Because we as Americans believe in justice, in the American
Dream, and the ability to build a brighter future for the next generation. Women
may not be physically equal to men, but conversely men are not physically equal
to women. We should not look at the sexes through a microscope and judge which
sex would be better at a job. Instead we should evolve as a society to look the
totality of the individual and their qualifications to perform the job. Women
have proven time and again to be able to handle just as much, if not more of the
job performance as their male counterpart, at times even excelling them. It is
now time for them to be recognized for their achievements and compensated justly
and fairly. That is the American way as our forefathers envisioned it.
America? Why should be care that women make on averages 79cent to every $1 a man
earns? These questions boasts a philosophical approach. It is the same as the
answers to; Why should we end slavery? Why should African American (and any
other minority) get the right to vote? Why should they have any rights? Are they
not equally inferior to the white race? Believe it or not these were real
questions and reasoning behind subjugating and dismissing minority and indeed
allowing slave trade in America in the early colonial days.
But some of our most enlightened founding fathers decided that the Constitution applied to ALL men,
“that ALL men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their creator with
certain unalienable Rights” These rights were extended first to African American
men, and then to women when the Supreme court chose to interpret the Constiution
as thus, and when Congress decided to pass Amendments guaranteeing these
unalienable rights to these disenfranchised minority groups. The
14thAmendment guaranteeing these rights to all men and women was passed on July 1868 and yet
still 144 years later these groups and indeed women are still fighting for their
equal rights. We have had legislature after legislature passed again and again
reaffirming these rights and punishing those who would try to ignore them. Why
should we care?
Because we as Americans believe in justice, in the American
Dream, and the ability to build a brighter future for the next generation. Women
may not be physically equal to men, but conversely men are not physically equal
to women. We should not look at the sexes through a microscope and judge which
sex would be better at a job. Instead we should evolve as a society to look the
totality of the individual and their qualifications to perform the job. Women
have proven time and again to be able to handle just as much, if not more of the
job performance as their male counterpart, at times even excelling them. It is
now time for them to be recognized for their achievements and compensated justly
and fairly. That is the American way as our forefathers envisioned it.