Dear Future President,

The gender wage has been going on for many years now, but even though it has narrowed since the 1970, the wage gap is still enormous. The gap needs to narrow for men and women to be equally paid. According to Kevin Miller, the wage gap will not decrease until 2152, resulting in men and women not being paid equally until 2152.

I, as a 13 year old girl, would want my future to have equality, so that men and women will have equal wages, when I work. I believe that men and women should be equal in all ways. Men and women should be able to have the same career job and where they can both work full time. In some cases however, men are paid more than women. There are also times where women work more hours, but still have the same wage as fewer hours.

Women earn about 80 percent of what men make in the state of California. This wage gap has been increasing. I believe gender wage gap started years ago, when wars were occurring and most men would go to war and serve their country. While the women would stay home and make sure that the children are safe and are not injured.

The wage gap is worse for women with color because some races earn more than others. For example whites and Asians are earning more than African Americans, Hispanics, Latinos, and American Indian earn less than Asian and White. The wage differences between the races can be a variety. The gap between Hispanic men and women is 92 percent, African American genders is 90 percent ,and American Indian genders is 87 percent. While the gap between white genders is 76 percent and Asian genders is 81 percent. The causes to the wage gap has multiple answers. It’s ranging through race, age, gender, ethnicity, and level of education. There are still many causes to the wage gap, these are just a few. An effect of the wage gap is sexism because are women getting paid less than men, based on gender.

This topic has many perspectives, which includes women’s perspectives. Others perspectives could be from companies, workplaces, and overall everyone. Everyone can have different thoughts on this topic, some can be good and some can be bad. People can believe that wage gap can be bad, that men get paid more than women, and some can be okay or neutral with it.

So I ask you Mr. President, are you going to go anything about the wage gap? Is the gap going to get worse? Are men and women ever going to get paid equally? Are men and women ever going to have equality? So I leave this in your hands, Mr. President. This is now all on you, Mr. President. Make the future full of equality, rights, and just make America as great as it should be.

Sincerely,

Diane Nguyen