bly less than men do. In the 1980's women earned only three fifths of what men earn, in other words only sixty cents for every dollar a man earned. Many companies make sure that men and women in the company have different job titles so that they can justifiably be paid different salaries. Some employers also make sure that there is something slightly different about the actual work that men and women do so that their work could be proven to be unequal (Sapiro, 398).People have long been worried about conflicts between work and family in the lives of women workers. We have seen, however, that work has not conflicted with families. First, women's family roles constitute much of women's work, and second as women expanded their work to locations outside the home they stretched the meaning of femininity. Many women find it easier to avoid conflict and continue to do domestic work in the home as well as paid work (Sapiro, 406).Many feminists and attorneys have argued that sexual harassment in the work place is a form a sex discrimination. Many women feel that the only way to avoid harassment is to quit, and many have been fired because they did not respond appropriately in the eyes of their employers. A federal government study estimated that the amount of job turnover, medical insurance claims, absenteeism, and reduced productivity due to sexual harassment may cost the economy $189 million over a two-year period (Sapiro, 395).Every day the battle for women's equality continues, and women are gaining more and more recognition. We need to take the discrimination of women seriously and work to make it better. Equality for all women has been a fundamental goal for hundreds of years and continues to be so....
