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The idea that only one gender should be a protected class is an idea that might seem to help address the problem of the gender pay gap, but in reality, it doesn’t, and instead of protecting one gender as a class, gender in and of itself should be illegal to consider. There is a real pay gap for women, with the gap ranging from women earning 66 cents for every dollar a man earns in Louisiana, to a less horrible 91 cents in the District of Columbia (Hill, 2017). However the problem is even worse for those who don’t conform to traditional gender stereotypes. Gay and transgender employees suffer the same gender pay gaps, without any protections for their own differences (Gap, 2012). Making women a protected class does nothing to help these even more marginalized workers.

The solution is not to protect one gender, because that simply leaves open the opportunity for discrimination in the other direction, however infrequent, but to protect all gender and sexual orientation modes so that the protection is universal. Unless there is a compelling interest by the employer for hiring one gender over another, it should be against the law to use gender as a deciding factor. There is a strong argument for gender necessity in entertainment industries, so to simply ban gender en masse is impractical, but most industries can’t demonstrate such a need, and so taking all gender and sexuality issues off the table is the only practical answer. It solves multiple problems at once.

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According to a scientific american blog post, it stated,  "In a real-world setting, typically the most we can do is identify differences in outcome. A man is selected for hire over a woman; fewer women reach tenure track positions; there’s a gender gap in publications. Bias may be suspected in some cases, but the difficulty in using outcomes to prove it is that the differences could be due to many potential factors. We can speculate: perhaps women are less interested in the field. Perhaps women make lifestyle choices that lead them away from leadership positions. In a real-world setting, when any number of variables can contribute to an outcome, it’s essentially impossible to tease them apart and pinpoint what is causative."    

I personally think there is still some bias in certain professions.  For example,  if you look in the medical field for nursing -this profession was once traditionally considered a women field but now men have started to take on this role which could be looked at as subject to gender bias.   However, we as women are still having to prove our self by filing suit or through the justice system to prove a point.

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