Equal Rights for Equal Genders

By John McBride,Jason Wang,

and Bradley Kerkhof

Guiding QuestionOur guiding question is, “What

can I learn from the past civil rights struggles to help resolve

current issues that still exist today?”

Problem StatementOur problem that we need to

solve is that men are paid, favored, and employed more than women unjustly, even

though they are equally good workers.

!!!Breaking!!!!!!News!!!

Currently in the US, women are suing Wal-Mart Stores because of

discrimination against women in ways like employment, pay and favoritism.

The Supreme Court decided on December 6, 2010 (last Monday) to

hear the case in Spring of 2011.

Best Research Questions

These are our best research questions:1. What are some specific ways that employers show

discrimination toward women?2. How do you pass a law?

3.How big is the payment difference between men and women?

4. Do women show discrimination to men? If so, how?5. How does the Power of Veto (PoW) work, and how

does it affect laws?

Best Statistics/ Information1. For the first quarter of this year, the average woman made about 655 dollars per week

whereas about 80% of men made 844 dollars per week according to this study released on Equal Pay Day. (That is about 34,060 dollars a year for women and about 43,888 dollars a year for men with a difference of nearly 10,000 dollars.)

2. If You are a woman working full time, you will lose between $700,000 and $2,000,000 over your work lifetime just because of your gender.

3. (1) A bill is written, introduced and assigned a bill number in one chamber (either the House or Senate). Each bill must have at least a sponsor. Most bills also have several co-sponsors. (2) The bill is assigned to several committees in the chamber . . .

4. On a weekly basis, men working full-time work for an average of 41.9 hours compared to women's 37.6 hours. More men than women work, but however, the unemployment rate for men at 14% is currently about three times the female rate.

5. Employers can show discrimination by: hiring and firing, compensating, assigning, classifying, transferring, promoting, laying-off, or recalling employees undeservingly, giving more access of company facilities or training and apprenticeship programs to one gender and over the other . . .

Final Solution

Our Final Solution to the equal pay andemployment problem is to raise awareness, pass

our own law, and take laws that have been made toprotect women’s rights more seriously. We couldput up signs and march publicly so that people

would know what’s going on. Next, we could passour own law that would take away all loopholes andmake things legitimately equal. Lastly, we must take

past laws more seriously so that we could havemultiple laws to back our cause up.

Pros and Cons

Cons• Anger men• More divorces• Less marriages

•Parents around their kids less/less stay at home parents

• Put some men out of work

Pros• Less Poverty

• More luxury for families• Inspire other countries

•Help resolve other aspects of sexism

• More female perspective in businesses

Global Struggles

1. In Saudi Arabia and Vatican City, women are still unable to vote, and women in Bhutan and Lebanon

are technically aloud to vote by law but find it difficult in practice.

2. In most parts of Africa, men are free to beat women publicly without facing any consequences.

3. In Sudan, women are still used as slaves today.

CSISymbol

We chose this Symbol because when it comes to employment and pay, men are up and higher, and women are down and lower.

Image

We chose this Image because women are always chasing their rights, but they are never able to catch men or get equal rights.

Color

We chose this Color because wethink that red represents fighting,and women have been fighting for their rights for over 160 years.

We used to think . . . But now We think . . .

1. We used to think that all the problems concerning women’s rights in the US had been solved in the past, but now we think that there are still many women’s rights struggles that need to be solved.

2. We used to think that passing our own law would be enough to stop people from discriminating against women, but now we realize that it would be impossible to cover every loophole in one law and that we needed to take other past laws more seriously to stop discrimination for good.

3. We used to think that there would be a lot more negatives to our final solution, but after research and serious thought, we found that good outweighed the bad.

4. We used to think that women’s only place to work was in the home cooking, cleaning, and doing other house hold chores but now we think that women are just as educated and capable to work anywhere they want.

The End