Throughout history, people have stereotyped everything from race to religious beliefs to gender. Today segregation and stereotypes still exist, though sometimes they are more subtle.
Perception is that things between the sexes have improved since women’s suffrage gave women the vote in 1920; however, there is still inequality.
“Despite passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which requires that men and women in the same work place be given equal pay for equal work, the ‘Gender gap’ in pay persists,” states the White house website. “Full-time women workers’ earnings are only about 77 percent of their male counterparts’ earnings. The pay gap is even greater for African-American and Latina women, with African-American women earning 64 cents and Latina women earning 56 cents for every dollar earned by a Caucasian man.”
While physically and mentally men and women are different due to playing different roles through evolution, these evolutionary differences are small. For example: in general women can see a broader spectrum of colors while men have a greater spacial awareness, for gathering and hunting respectively. These differences do not justify holding one gender to a different standard of pay.
Although today some women have been elected to those same positions they could not vote for just 95 years ago, there are still equality issues in our society.
The truth is people can not be categorized. The vast majority of stereotypes are unjustified. Simply put, it is wrong to pay someone who has equal education and equal experience less because of race, religion or sex.