Women have the tendency to take maternity leave as well as having a lower commitment to the job because they are more likely to care for their children than fathers. According to the Pew Research Center, “Roughly four-in-ten mothers said that at some point in their work life they had taken a significant amount of time off (39%) or reduced their work hours …show more content…
In other words, employers may unknowingly devalue women. “Even when men and women with similar work experience and education levels were working at the same company with the exact same job title, women, on average, were still paid less” (Chamberlain, 2016). There is a base of gender discrimination when it comes to employer biases, but this is unable to be controlled because it is sometimes subconscious. This bias is unable to be controlled, unless society realizes the value of women, which it will not and even then, it could still cause a wage …show more content…
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