However, there is a major concern inside of the workforce. On average men earn more money than woman working in the same career position. This should be an outrage to business women everywhere. On the other hand, the gender hierarchy starts way before men and women enter their career field. Unfortunately, in thier adolescent years, girls and boys are influenced to take classes that are deemed appropriate for their gender.
Ann Crittenden’s “The Mommy Tax” claims the ideal worker is one who is free to focus solely on his job. This is a problem for women, who ponder the idea of having children and for those who already have children. Because a woman has the capability of having a child, she already poses a threat to an ideal worker. Crittenden also presents a study that focuses on the gender difference in time taken off from work. Former women University of Michigan Law students were found to have taken an average of 3.3 months of leave plus 10.1 months of part-time work during their first 15 years.
According to Denise Cormier currently women hold over fifty 50 percent of management and professional positions. Unfortunately, these highly educated and capable women are leaving positions of power and prestige in growing numbers. Studies have shown the financial benefits of women leaders in corporations versus all male leadership are still ostracized in the boardroom. Equally disturbing is the thought that women were leaving to pursue a family, so, one must wonder if there were exodus of men would the same belief be assumed (Cormier, 2007)? Cormier further determine thorough the interview of forty female from senior management positions to Chief Operating Officers from a variety of industries to determine what was causing the exodus.
Likewise, more women than men tend to apply for lower-paying cashier positions-a trend that inadvertently skews averages down for women. This is what makes it seem that women and men are paid differently. Walmart has taken the steps to reduce the disparity occurring in the promotion and pay of women and men. They told their 50,000 managers to promote more women and minorities, with 15 percent of the managers’ bonuses tied to achieving
Do you agree with the view that, in terms of employment opportunities, women did not gain ‘any significant advantage from their wartime experience’? Many women, especially shorthand typists and munitions workers, earned for more than before the war and gained greater economic independence. Many women worked away from home were they experienced a sense of liberation from their restricted home lives. Trade unions initially opposed the dilution of labour but eventually recruited many more women. 350,000 women were in unions in 1914, but 600,000 by 1918.
In the article “In Downturn’s Wake, Women Hold Half of U.S. Jobs” author Kelly Evans talks about the surprising reports showing that since the recession began women have started to join the work force. “Due in part to deep layoffs of men, women are poised to become the majority of workers for the first time.” Observing these changes people have responded positively but also have questions about what the shift means in the long term. It has made people wonder if the shift in the role of women in the workspace would also have an effect on the role of women in marriages and other aspects of life. Stephanie Coontz, a professor at Evergreen state College in Olympia, Washington, says “the silver lining here may be that men now get a little more
The question to be looked at is ‘What does it mean to be a woman?’Although there has been some progress in the past 30 years, particularly in women’s education and employment equality, there are still many inequalities and also more inconspicuous issues affecting the women of today including domestic violence and rape and sexual abuse and I would like to look further into this. So, what does it mean to be female in today’s society? Though there has been some improvement in gender equality, women are still oppressed. Today’s women earn one-tenth of the worlds income, occupy only 18% of seats in the worlds parliaments, comprise two-thirds of the exploited informal workforce, and for women aged 15-44 gender violence accounts for more deaths and disability than cancer, malaria, traffic accidents and war (World Health Organisation 2005). Studies show women are paid less even when doing the same job with the same experience as their male counterparts
African American Women & The Glass Ceiling With the rise in divorce rates and single mother families more women are no longer staying at home with their children they are becoming more involved in the workforce. According to (Simmons, (2009) “In 2005, African-American women occupied 9,014,000 positions in the labor force, of which 2,483,000 were administrative and managerial positions (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2005). African-American women occupied only 1.6% of the 10,092 corporate office positions within Fortune 500 companies. African-American women are over-represented in service professions that include clerical and sales positions, and limited in positions such as officers, managers, professionals and technicians. The problem is that African-American women occupy less than 3% of all managerial positions
Nationwide 56 percent of women are undergraduates. Two years ago demographics predict that 42 percent of men in the Unites States will receive baccalaureate degrees. Rich also says colleges has reached what is called a “tipping point”. This is where 60 percent or more females are enrolled, and steadily increasing. Rich is disagreeing , that females are getting better grades in school.
Within this region there are clear economical and educational factors that force women out of their homes seeking job opportunities that result in being lured into the sex trafficking business. Within the hemisphere, it is one of the more impoverished regions; over 70% of the region’s population lives below the poverty line. Women, in particular, face enormous challenges, as they increasingly assume sole responsibility for families. From 1988 to 1999 in Costa Rica, the percentage of women as head of the house rose from 19.3% to 27.9%. During the same time period in Honduras, the number of women increased from 27.9% to 30.3%.