A 6 year battle...

Nursing Standard; Published June 11, 2008 Page 11

"NHS Professionals will issue guidance for temporary staff after the government announced that agency workers in the UK will receive pay equal to that of their permanent counterparts."
Why did it take that long? Many of the searches I pulled up for "equal pay" have been connected to the United Kingdom. It seems they may be more concerned with the issue than the United States. However, nurses over in Great Britain worked for over six years on getting the same pay as their male counterparts. Personally, I want to know where the idea that men can work and perform better than women in the same job came from. Women are "equal" to men in today's standards, but only to those who are completely incompetent and oblivious to what thousands of women have been striving towards for years and years now. It honestly frightens me to even head into the competitive workforce. I'm afraid that I will be one of the many women that are not given as high of pay, as good of benefits, etc... all because of my gender. I want to change that and am eager to learn more about what is actively being done to help women who are suffereing from unequal pay. Back to the excerpt at the top: Imagine six years...that is one group of women struggling for equal pay and it took six years. There are thousands and even millions of women out there who don't have equal pay. How long will it take them? That is a scary thought...