Abstract

Despite an unending commitment to social justice and equality, social work remains among the lowest paid professions in the United States (U.S.). This issue ultimately rises to the level of an economic human rights violation for both practitioners and their clients. Furthermore, since social workers consist of among the highest rates of women and women of color in the field compared to all other professions, this raises additional questions about human rights violations related to the gender, racial, and ethnic inequalities. Social work professors, who typically make much higher salaries than social work practitioners, have a moral responsibility to raise awareness and advocate for higher pay for practitioners, through both their research and advocacy. This article describes how increases in pay for social workers could simultaneously improve pay for women and women of color and improve the level of services provided to the disadvantaged populations to whom social workers are of service. Additional suggestions are made on what specifically social work professors can do to help increases wages for practitioners and therefore increase human rights.

中文翻译：

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社会工作者的低薪是一种侵犯人权的行为，社会工作教授必须帮助改变它

摘要

尽管社会工作不断致力于社会正义和平等，但它仍然是美国收入最低的职业之一。这个问题最终上升到对​​从业者及其客户的经济人权侵犯的程度。此外，由于与所有其他职业相比，社会工作者在该领域的女性和有色人种女性比例最高，这引发了与性别、种族和民族不平等相关的侵犯人权行为的额外问题。社会工作教授的薪水通常比社会工作从业者高得多，他们有道德责任通过研究和倡导提高社会工作从业者的认识并倡导更高的薪酬。本文介绍了社会工作者薪酬的增加如何同时提高女性和有色人种女性的薪酬，并提高为社会工作者所服务的弱势群体提供的服务水平。还就社会工作教授具体可以采取哪些措施来帮助提高从业人员的工资从而增进人权提出了其他建议。