PHI_445 Week 5 Final Paper, Gender Discrimination: Goodyear

PHI_445 Week 5 Final Paper, Gender Discrimination: Goodyear Gender Discrimination NAME PHI445: Personal and Organizational Ethics Professor DATE 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. Lilly Ledbetter was hired in 1979 as a supervisor in the Goodyear tire plant in Alabama, and over the years was denied merit raises due to her performance evaluations which resulted in her pension to be less than her male co-workers in the end. She noticed little things throughout her career but never realized how these little things really made an impact on her life. Working in a male dominated field, Lilly took many things with a grain of salt because she did not have all the evidence necessary to build a case prior to her retirement. After retirement, Lilly took all the information she gained, some of which was anonymous; she decided to take her case to court for gender pay discrimination in the workforce at the end of her career with Goodyear. Lilly took her case to civil court where she won was awarded her back pay as well as punitive