Examine the Reasons Why Women Are More Likely Than Men to Experience Poverty. (24)

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The dual labour market is divided into two sectors; the primary and the secondary sector. The primary sector mostly consisting of the high-tech jobs with better pay. Whilst the secondary sector would be mostly made up of service jobs, where the pay was low and there wasn’t a high chance of a promotion. Within this dual labour market; women tended to experience patriarchy where the primary sector would mostly consist of men and women unable to reach those jobs because of the ‘glass ceiling’ were left with lower paid jobs which made them more likely to experience poverty within their life time. Because women had always kept up the tradition role of a house wife whose only job was to stay at home, take care of the kids within the informal sector. It was always seen as the husbands job to go out and labour. So now within the labour market; women tend to experience heavy discrimination against them in both their pay and job opportunities. Women tend to receive lower wages than men when working on the same level job and when it comes to promoting; a man would be more likely to receive that promotion. Even when picking jobs it is hard for women to get high up jobs within the private sector not only because they are unable to reach them because of the glass ceiling theory, but as well because women tend to take other things into opinion rather than just the pay. Making it another reason why a woman may be more likely to experience poverty as she would not only have hard time finding a job that is high up within the labour market but as well it would be hard for her to keep it. A woman has to go through child birth at one stage in her life which may put her at risk to poverty even more. Once pregnant an employer may choose to fire the mother to be as it would mean that the employer would have to pay double the amount not only for the mother when she is away on maternity

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