PHI_445 Week 5 Final Paper, Gender Discrimination: Goodyear

PHI_445 Week 5 Final Paper, Gender Discrimination: Goodyear.Gender Discrimination Over the years in American history there have been years and tears of gender discrimination, and when women joined the workforce, these practices continued to carry on. In this country, there has always been a division of the genders throughout history. Women have sought to be looked at and treated as equals in the very society that they live and thrive in. In the case of Lilly Ledbetter vs. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., this issue was very prominent and was a matter of unethical business behavior. While companies such as Goodyear are in a capitalist economy and private business, allowing companies to treat their employees in such a manner is unethical because if one is required to do the same work, then one should get paid the same. It also keeps the wage gap been men and women distant while giving companies the idea that they are allowed to treat its employees unfairly while not having to abide by the law, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Goodyear is not morally justifiable when discriminating an employee’s wage solely based on their gender.