The Effects of Closing the Wage Gap
Women have always been working even if their jobs and work went unnoticed. Since women joined the workforce their work has always been undervalued. When working for wages in the revolutionary era, the jobs they did were considered unskilled labor that required no particular education or training. It was also believed that women were not working to support a family since that was what the man was for, they were just working for extra spending money so their wages started low. (Kulow, 2013, p. 388). The wage gap is still a problem today, women in the workplace are still earning 82 cents to every dollar a male does.
To help women get paid the same amount for the same job title and quality of work, the United …show more content…
There is a belief that women earn less because the gravitate toward jobs and careers that are less productive and more lenient for mothers, when they start having families. They go into careers with hours and schedules that work with schedules of children and stray from jobs that if they were to go on leave for a child would progress without them being there like jobs in the scientific field. This article calls for an affirmative action to be taken place across the United States, so when a company is shown with an underrepresentation of women they have to take affirmative steps to make sure their employees are matched with the mandated amount they have to hire. Another solution proposed is family friendly policies for women so that they don’t have to choose between a family and a time demanding, higher paying job. This is a policy seen in other countries and has had positive impacts on those populations. The third solution stated, is comparable worth or pay equity, in which the employer conducts job evaluations and then decides the worth of the work, and no matter gender the person is being paid accurately and is not being discriminated for gender. Another solution is for unionization of women because when women are a part of a union they’re earning 30-40% higher than women who are not unionized. The other solutions are touched in other articles I have chosen to aid my claim, but …show more content…
The number of women working to get their doctorates has tripled in the past three years, yet there is still a disparity in pay. The researchers used a study that shows the effects of discipline, sector of employment, personal traits, and the interaction of gender and race of annual salary over a decade after the degree completion. The personal traits of the women include marital status and number of children. This is an interesting factor to consider when looking at the gender gap because women are expected to take time from their jobs to raise a family and that can set them behind in the career
Women have always been working even if their jobs and work went unnoticed. Since women joined the workforce their work has always been undervalued. When working for wages in the revolutionary era, the jobs they did were considered unskilled labor that required no particular education or training. It was also believed that women were not working to support a family since that was what the man was for, they were just working for extra spending money so their wages started low. (Kulow, 2013, p. 388). The wage gap is still a problem today, women in the workplace are still earning 82 cents to every dollar a male does.
To help women get paid the same amount for the same job title and quality of work, the United …show more content…
There is a belief that women earn less because the gravitate toward jobs and careers that are less productive and more lenient for mothers, when they start having families. They go into careers with hours and schedules that work with schedules of children and stray from jobs that if they were to go on leave for a child would progress without them being there like jobs in the scientific field. This article calls for an affirmative action to be taken place across the United States, so when a company is shown with an underrepresentation of women they have to take affirmative steps to make sure their employees are matched with the mandated amount they have to hire. Another solution proposed is family friendly policies for women so that they don’t have to choose between a family and a time demanding, higher paying job. This is a policy seen in other countries and has had positive impacts on those populations. The third solution stated, is comparable worth or pay equity, in which the employer conducts job evaluations and then decides the worth of the work, and no matter gender the person is being paid accurately and is not being discriminated for gender. Another solution is for unionization of women because when women are a part of a union they’re earning 30-40% higher than women who are not unionized. The other solutions are touched in other articles I have chosen to aid my claim, but …show more content…
The number of women working to get their doctorates has tripled in the past three years, yet there is still a disparity in pay. The researchers used a study that shows the effects of discipline, sector of employment, personal traits, and the interaction of gender and race of annual salary over a decade after the degree completion. The personal traits of the women include marital status and number of children. This is an interesting factor to consider when looking at the gender gap because women are expected to take time from their jobs to raise a family and that can set them behind in the career