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| Source: How This Recent Court Ruling Could Hurt Equal Pay Laws And Competitive Hiring |
The economic principle I’m exploring is “Institutions are the “rules of the game” that influence choices”
My research question to help me study the economic principle is “How do cultural differences affect wages between men and women in healthcare?”
The article published in Forbes Magazine titled “How This Recent Court Ruling Could Hurt Equal Pay Laws And Competitive Hiring” demonstrates this economic principle because it shows that even laws have been placed because of how women have been biased in the past. If women are being chosen for employment based on their salary history, then women would get an even less chance of getting a job when competing with a man.
First, this is an example of how people are not helping the wage gap between men and women. By certain court rulings, it is said that women are going to have certain positions based on their income history. This is an unfair ruling because it will only keep the gap as it is, if it doesn’t widen it any more.
Second, if women are going to get jobs based on their income history from past jobs, employers should consider women as an equal candidate as their male counterpart because job interviews. Job positions should truly be based on experience and college credits if they were to truly be strict on history.
Third, fortunately, there are states that go against this ruling. According to Tanya Tarr, “In fact, Philadelphia, Boston and New York are cities that passed laws to ban the practice, and 40 states have taken up equal pay bills in the 2017 legislative session. California - where the case took place - passed a law in 2015 establishing that prior pay alone could not justify pay differences based on gender, but the case from the 9th Circuit started before that bill became law.” The case from the 9th circuit refers to the 1982 ruling that “said that employers could use previous salary information as long as they applied it reasonably and with a policy that justified it.”
In my next blog post I will research: Are there specific states that have certain laws, policies or regulations regarding the wage gap?
Very interesting note! I like how you note that even though there have been Equal Pay Laws for a while now, court rulings now bias women because employment will now be dependent on salary history. This is the more concrete and law-based evidence of gender discrimination in the workplace, which is a nice, refreshing take than what we normally see as microaggressive sexist remarks and behaviours.
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