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Character outlines

Character 1

Name: Ellen Pao

Age: 45

Description: Ellen Pao is a Chinese American woman, with dark hair. She is of an unspecified medium height

Character’s connection to essay: Gender Wage Discrimination

Ellen Pao worked for Kleiner Perkins at his venture capital firm; Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers was caught up in a situation that she explained was as a result of her gender. In the occurrence, Ellen Pao files a lawsuit against her employer and the firm, in general, claiming that it has a tendency to practice gender wage discrimination. In her explanations to the claim, Pao asserted that the firm had occasionally overlooked her as potential promotion candidate when she truly deserved it and instead, a male co-worker ended up getting the promotion. Further, in her complaint, Pao stated that the firm had a tendency of paying more attention to ideas that were brought forward by men than those brought forward by women. She asserted that women’s ideas were quickly dismissed without any valid reasons and their men counterparts are promoted more than them.

In her own situation, Pao said that the firm chose to overlook her for promotions and she believed was done on the basis of her gender. Apart from facing a discrimination in being promoted, Pao further states that she faced a termination form the firm when she raised the issue of being gender discriminated during the promotion exercise. It was further revealed that Kleiner Perkins Caufield &Byers was a film that contained a number of events that involved the underrepresentation of the female gender as well as their encounters with work circumstances in venture capital.

In another situation, as she describes it, Ms. Pao sourced an investment for the company in a patent trolls designing corporation which earned the firm an initial public offering. Pao strongly affirmed that her actions were adequately enough to earn her a promotion. Her employer firm, KCPB, however, did not give her the credit and would further not include her on the board of directors. Additionally, it was revealed that at KCPB, the policies relating the number of investments and seats at the board of directors was unequally applied comparing men and women. This clearly expressed the existence of a feature of gender wage discrimination in the KPCB firm. Pao further complained that the firm did not acknowledge or appreciate her efforts in improving the company. She gave a situation where she proposed a number of potential and beneficial investments which the firm ignored, only for it to adopt them at a later time. Pao, therefore, based her complain about the argument that the firm dismissed the investments because she was a woman and did not want to acknowledge it to her.

Second Character

Name: Peggy Young

Age: Unspecified, probably in her late thirties

Description: Ms. Peggy Young is tall, from Maryland, with blond hair color.

Character’s connection to essay: Gender Wage Discrimination

Ms. Peggy Young faced the situation of gender wage discrimination at her former workplace at UPS. Peggy worked at UPS as a delivery bus driver and apparently when she was pregnant, she requested a workload adjustment which was denied by the company. Ms. Young did not make the request on her own terms but was following a doctor’s instruction to reduce her workload during her pregnancy period.

On making the request however, the company did not approve it but instead chose to put her on a leave that she had not requested. To make the situation more unfair, MS. Young was placed on unpaid leave. To defend itself, the company stated that she could no longer meet the requirements of her job specification. In her letter the company cited Peggy young no longer being able to lift the required 70 pounds of load in her line of work.

Following this response, Peggy Young went ahead and filed a lawsuit against her employer, UPS. Young’s situation was revealed to be quite an act of gender wage discrimination as the company was revealed to normally make special accommodations especially for male workers who presented health conditions. The Supreme Court ended the case which was decided in the favor of Peggy Young. The court further stated that the company needed to make equal adjustments for pregnant women as it could do for any other worker who presented a health condition. It insisted that Peggy Young’s leave would have paid like all other leave, is the company really had to put her on a leave.

Character 3

Name: Keri Sleeman

Age: Unspecified, probably in her mid-thirties

Description: American, 6 feet tall, stocky body built, white with blond hair and has brown eyes.

Character’s connection to essay: Gender Wage Discrimination

Keri Sleeman is woman who worked for an engineering company that was involved in designing, building as well as installing systems for laser welding. At some point the company was forced to bankruptcy and all its workers had to report to court to be awarded their final paychecks by the company. Keri Sleeman reveals that the company hired her in the year 2003, gave her the amount of salary she would be receiving and told her that they did not negotiate salary rates.

At the time of bankruptcy, Ms. Sleeman had worked at the company for over five years. During the bankruptcy court process, Ms. Sleeman was shocked to realize that the workers who she supervised were receiving more claims in a period of two weeks were far much larger than hers. She describes herself as having been heartbroken by the situation of looking at the list of court claims and realize that her juniors at work were making larger salary claims than her.

Ms. Sleeman testified in a US court in support of the passing of the Paycheck Fairness Act in the year 2014. Sleeman attended an Access to Justice hearing where she supported the motion of equal pay for all people. She told her story of unequal pay to the sitting members in the efforts to get the law passed. She states that women can on their own not close the gender pay gap, and therefore the Act was needed as well as policy makers to enact laws to regulate the practice of oppressing women by paying them less salaries than their fellow workers. 

Setting outlines

Setting 1

Date: March 24, 2016

Place name: United States Supreme Court

Description: A United States Supreme Court courtroom.

Relevance of setting to essay 4 election: The courtroom is full of people who are eager to hear the final ruling of the court regarding the case presented by a complaint against a company that denied her a workload reduction due to her pregnancy unlike her fellow employees who would get adjustments due to health conditions. The people’s feelings are mixed as the supporters of the complainant want her to win the case, while the company she is suing wishes to win the lawsuit.

 Setting 2

Date: April 1, 2013

Place name: A sitting of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

Description: The meeting was held in support of the Paycheck Fairness Act.

Relevance of setting to essay Gender Wage Discrimination: The sitting was done to support the law on equality of pay across genders to stop the discrimination of women in terms of wage payment by employers.