The Fourteenth Amendment which has in it the “Equal Protection Clause” was adopted into the U.S. Constitution in 1868 and currently in 2011 women only earn 75 cents to a man’s dollar. Also, as we have witnessed time and again the exploitation of women in all area's of employment no more recent than the Supreme Court case involving the United State’s largest employer Wal-Mart, which employs roughly 2.1 million workers. Wal-Mart has been accused of sex discrimination, passing women over for promotions, and paying women less than their male counterparts. CEDAW's Article 11 will particularly assist the United States in legislation that will combat discrimination against women in all facets of American profession's. Article 11:
1. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in the field of employment in order to ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women, the same rights, in particular:
(a) The right to work as an inalienable right of all human beings;
(b) The right to the same employment opportunities, including the application of the same criteria for selection in matters of employment;
(c) The right to free choice of profession and employment, the right to promotion, job security and all benefits and conditions of service and the right to receive vocational training and retraining, including apprenticeships, advanced vocational training and recurrent training;
(d) The right to equal remuneration, including benefits, and to equal treatment in respect of work of equal value, as well as equality of treatment in the evaluation of the quality of work;
(e) The right to social security, particularly in cases of retirement, unemployment, sickness, invalidity and old age and other incapacity to work, as well as the right to paid leave;
(f) The right to protection of health and to safety in working conditions, including the safeguarding of the function of reproduction.
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