Gender Wage Inequality And Conflict Theory

The theoretical perspective that explains the issue of gender wage gap inequality is the conflict theory. The conflict theory comes from the work of Karl Marx where there are different kinds of groups competing for dominance. Although conflict theory eventually evolves into the contemporary conflict theory, this theory truly explains the issue with our society. The contemporary conflict theory relates to people who desire social change if it’s moving toward egaliterianism which means that all sort of people deserve the same kind of rights and privileges. Although we have come strive to make big improvements over the centuries, there seems to be a never ending theme of the men being the power of the family and the women being the secondary character. Men always feel that they should be the money maker and protector of the family while the nurturing and household works always goes to the women usually the wives’ tasks. The real issue is that women have …show more content…
Conflict theory will always exist in the gender wage inequality as long as men believe that they are better than women. If there is going to be any real change in society for gender wage, men needs to fight for the women as well and they need to fight for them. According to the article, men haven’t been any better than women since the 1970s because data have shown that females have a higher education and experience than men since the 1990s (Stevenson). So why are men still fighting as if they are better than women? Men needs to realize that women are capable of doing everything that men could do and there should not be a reason for this gender wage gap inequality. We should not be stereotyping males and females in to different groups and instead embrace the new changes that are happening now because it is