Justin Campos                                                                                              February 6, 2021

BUS 311-1900                                                                                        Professor Brielle Buckler

Equal Rights & The Law

Equal rights and the law have made thing easier but Equality still hasn’t been reached. Equal rights have always been in the conversation since women and people of color was giving rights. One big step into accomplishing equality was in 1963 when president John F. Kennedy passed the Equal Pay Act to try and help women to get pay the same as a man for doing the same job. Even though the Equal Pay Act was passed in 1963 women have yet to receive equal but are closer than ever. There has been many more law passed to reach the main goal which is equality one of those law is the Fair Standards Act which help the U.S come up with minimum wage. Pensions was another part of achieving the goal of equality by giving people pensions eventually no matter of the work force. The civil Right act was one of the biggest steps into equality because this was the law that gave people of color the right to be treated as humans and not as objects that can be used and treat like less of a person by paying them less. Not only did it help stop discrimination against people of color but all minorities.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg a charterer in the movie “On the Basis of Sex” is a woman in the 1960s that had a dream but based on her gender it was far from reach. Ruth Bader Ginsburg wanted to be a lawyer but because he was a female and in the 1960s that was not a normal thing for a female to do it looked like a long shot. Ginsburg was put through many obstacle and challenges by the people around her since the career she wanted to presume was mainly male dominated she still did not give up till she reaches her goal and became a lawyer. She used those same obstacles and challenges she had to go through to feed her desire of reach her goal. She was a strong woman because she made sure even though she was a female trying to accomplish something that was out of their league in the people minds in 1960s she would make sure to stand out and let her voice be heard.