They believe in this part of the world, women are drawing even with men in terms of education and experience, yet men are paid more and do better than women at work. However, others are convinced that the gender bias does not explain the male-female pay gap and argue that the wage gap is a myth. Regardless of what people say, I believe that the wage gap is based on a misleading data and
Does sexism exists? Sexism is the ideology that one sex is superior to the other. Women are discriminated against because men feel that they lack certain traits that one should have in order to lead a company, in essence, they do not have man-like characteristics. I had the opportunity to explore this topic from three different angles: Taking gender into account, who gets the carrot and who gets the stick, and attitudes towards business ethics. Women’s career progress lags comparable to men’s.
For example, women used to do just domestic tasks and take care of their children at home and men were responsible to work very hard to bring money to their homes. Since then, the gender wage gap has affected women and men. Because of this fact, many companies think that women are not designed to do different kinds of tasks and they do not have the same skills as men. For example, men are more likely to have mechanical or computer skills and women are more likely to have nursing or childcare skills. Therefore, the gender wage gap affects women more than men because of the circumstances that happened in the past.
Gender affects a person's roles and position in society. Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women. When the phrase “Gender wage gap” is used it refers to the difference in earnings between men and women. When evaluations of jobs that are identical are performed they have the same identical pay scale. The “gender wage gap” theory is not evidenced by accurate current information.
Census Bureau 2011). Since women are over-represented in the lowest wage jobs, the rise in never-married and divorced women will raise replacement rates. At the same time, fewer women will receive spousal or survivor benefits.2 How these recent marriage trends impact Social Security replacement rates and the trust fund hinges on the earnings of these divorced or never-married women relative to their husbands or potential spouses. This study has three goals. The first is to investigate how Social Security replacement rates have changed across a broad range of cohorts and within cohorts by marital status and by income distribution.
According to previous studies, women earn significantly lower salaries, are overrepresented in low-status occupations and receive average low level of education (Gutierrez, 1990). Women and minorities also experience hostility, sexual and ethnic harassment in work environment in traditionally male and white dominated domains. They also occupy lower paying, less prestigious and less powerful jobs than white men ( Berdahl & Moore (2006). It is extremely important to study the concept and repercussions of double jeopardy because, studies have found that sexual and ethnic harassment (result of double jeopardy) at work pose significant problems for women and minorities correspondingly and are related to poor physical, psychological, and organizational well being. In addition, age has been shown to negatively correlate with salary and the amount of time in current position (Hurley& Giannantonio (1999).
In this paper, I will be comparing these gendered situations in four different countries: Korea, France, United States, and Denmark. Some of the variance in income, labor status, and the division of labor is gender based. On average, mothers participate less in the labor market than fathers, where they assume the share of unpaid work in the household. Women also tend to be less well paid than men when they do work, and they occupy jobs with lower job security, fewer prospects of advancement, and less responsibility. Often, these inequalities spill over into a gender gap in other areas.
Lastly, the question of if the gender wage gap is real or not will be postulated. Introduction Women account for one-half of a country’s potential talent base, and a nation’s competitiveness in the long term depends significantly on whether and how it educates and utilizes its women (World Economic Forum). However, a recent study examining the gender wage gap over the past 10 years revealed that the median yearly salary of full-time female workers is 77% of the median yearly salary of full-time male workers. Explained to the public, in a generalized manner, as women only make 77 cents to a man’s dollar, it quickly became a major “speaking” point for President Barack Obama’s last presidential campaign. In reality this generalized version of the study is misleading.
This study deals with gender inequality in the modern society and looks at the difficulties women face when they strive for equal success as their male counterparts. About seventy-five percent of the jobs in well-paid professions are held by men and even if women are able to get equal jobs they are still paid considerably less . The central question posed is, are there any differences in the aspirations and career goals between males and females? However, in order to fully understand stereotypical social values about sex-roles in our society, an analysis of the broader context, in terms of the findings of the research of experts in the field, is needed. Thus, this Literature Review discusses the research on gender discrimination in the modern society as well as what drives women into the workforce.
However, sociologists would not all agree that this is the primary reason for the trends. Feminists would argue that changes in the position of women, for example improvements in their economic situation have had a large impact. Now, 70% of women are in paid work, compared to 49% in 1965. Subsequently, women are less likely to be financially dependent on their husbands and thus freer to end an unhappy marriage. Feminists also argue that women work triple-shifts within households, leading to conflict and leading to more divorces.