Unfortunately the recent report tells us that only by 2095 we can achieve the full gender equality on the workplace. However, of course, we could try and shorten that time. It is obviously important to have not only males in the business world, because this way we miss out on many opportunities that women could bring to the world, due to the different perception of values. When for example men are driven by mostly material success, women tend to build up relationships and friendly environment on the workplace. However, sometimes emotions and nurturing can affect the business in a negative manner.
Sex in the Workplace Logan Elliott Scopes and Methods POL 2703 Ayala 8/5/2012 Literature Review The research question that this paper will investigate is how does one’s gender affect the amount of income that person will generate in the workplace? This research paper looks at the inequalities of males and females within their careers when comparing them to one another and will attempt to discover if there is an unfair advantage of income distribution that favors males over females, even in instances where both sexes ensure the same job requirements as well as education and experience. It is a well-known and controversial subject in arguing that males tend to dominate in acquiring a higher income than do their female counterparts. Men tend to be seen as higher earners than women, which then inclines the association between masculinity being an attribute of wealth. This stereotype in itself can be attributed in perpetuating the wage gap at both the conscious and non-conscious levels thus leading to a sever inequality and a wage gap.
ncome inequality is measured by a household or one person and is distributed in an uneven form. There are several causes that contribute to income inequality: ability, education and training, discrimination, preferences and risks, unequal distribution of wealth, market power, luck, connections, and misfortune. If people possess the ability to maintain a job performance better than another person, their pay will be different due to their work ability and years of experience. Although, this is true in many cases, there are people who can outperform any job skills by natural talent than someone whose been trained. Not only does the ability& training plays a part the education of one person can allow them to be paid more than an individual with a lower status of education.
A UC Berkley study of California’s childcare support system found that early care and education systems have much to do with the ongoing wage gap. Found through research done by the Roosevelt institute, the study states, “Better pay and benefits are correlated with a continuous work history. When workers’ careers are disrupted because of child care failure — care that is unreliable, unaffordable, or just unavailable — and these workers are usually women. Periods of non-employment lead to lower wages because of loss of seniority, and sometimes being less likely to receive further training or mentoring due to questions of commitment.” (Kimmel 2006, p.79)When not working for long periods of time some significant “skill deprecation” may occur and thus lowering the wage. Investment in early child education that is affordable to all classes would, in the end work to everyone’s advantage.
There is not a clear definition on what is equal pay for men and women but that’s when the Equal Pay Act comes into action. “Occupational earnings survey conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics almost invariably report substantially higher average rates pay for men than for women performing the same general type of work” (McNulty,1967, p.40) Assuming when women entered the workforce men have been dominating the pay charts for doing the same job and sometimes lessor work. The study of two literature reviews entitled “Differences in pay between men and women workers” by Donald J. McNulty and “Pay differences between men and women in the same jobs” by John E. Buckley will hopefully shed some insight to what “We” have known to be true for a long time… Men are paid more. Findings/Results In the research article titled “Differences in pay between men and women workers” by McNulty (1967), the study was based on surveys that were conducted in 84 metropolitan areas by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) concerning occupational earnings and related practices. The study was conducted on eight offices, three plants and men and women from each.
Although the male employees performed the exact task as a female the pay rate set for the male differed from the female employees. This caused unbearable stress to
The Role of Anger and Gender in the Workplace Dinesha Deonarine Hunter College, The City University of New York Abstract In western cultures, it has been conveyed that women tend to be more emotional than men. Due to the stereotype, it has caused a strain on women in the work environment where women as seen to be too emotional if anger or any other emotion is displayed in the work environment. Our aim was to examine reactions of anger and gender shown in professional environments based on status and competence ratings. Our hypothesis was that professional women who express anger in the workplace are significantly accorded lower status and are seen as less competent than professional men who express anger. We showed participants 4 videos, sequentially in balanced order and gave a questionnaire for them to complete.
Our society changes our attitudes and views on life more than our biological make-up. This dissertation investigates the hypothesis that in some cultures, men versus women cannot overcome stereotypes in the business world. Based upon both, feminist and masculine theory, the study argues that the characteristics that influence male and female behavior in the workplace are essentially, despite the fact that women are less likely than men to be promoted to high level positions. The paper concludes that stereotypes apply in general to both sexes and serve their purpose to help us make judgements when we do them intelligently and not absolutely. Considerably more work will need to be done to determine if individual differences in masculinity and femininity have both genetic and environmental components.
Since men are the most principal stature in the current society, they are therefore entitled to additional jobs, contrary to their female counterparts. In the workplace, it is a great deal to locate women with similar experience as well as education level securing equivalent jobs position as men. On several occasions, whenever a woman gets a better job than a man, her remuneration is different and slightly lower than any man would have if he is recruited for a similar post. In justifying this proposition, Hamlet disputes that women must be given better prospects to work for a lesser amount of full-time schedule given that they are paid wages comparable to part-time work for
Many women out-earn their male counterparts in today’s economy. And the fact that traditional male dominated jobs are on the decline while female dominated jobs and the educational superiority of women is on the incline exacerbates this fact. Like it or not, the lines between the roles