Although our society has made many great advances in women’s rights we are still living in the past on the issue of fair wages among genders. Before women’s liberation occurred, women were denied access to many of the experiences men encountered after grade school. This included higher education, professions, and even the pulpit, as well as equal pay for equal work. If married, they had no property rights; even the wages they earned legally belonged to their husbands as they did. They could be hired for substantially lower wages and employed in great numbers for unskilled work in factories

(Women in the Workforce). This type of discrimination was the beginning of the wage gap and what would become the struggle for women to receive the same amount of money for the same job a man does.

It is evident that our founding fathers should have discussed independence with our founding mothers before they wrote such an influential document. Then they would realize that what they should have written was “all people are created equal.” By endorsing The Fair Pay Act this thought could become a reality and provide a stepping-stone for equal pay among genders. Without action though, equality will not be achieved and our country will never really be free from oppression.

The best solution supported by many groups of feminist activists is The Fair Pay Act. The Fair Pay Act would expand the Equal Pay Act's protections against wage discrimination to workers in equivalent jobs with similar skills and responsibilities, even if the jobs are not identical. The Paycheck Fairness Act would also amend the Equal Pay Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to provide more effective remedies to workers who are not being paid equal wages for doing equal work (Furchtgott-Roth 38).

Not long ago, Senator Tom Harkin and Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced the Fair Pay Act into legislation. It seeks to end wage discrimination against those who work in fe

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