Inequality Between Men And Women Essay

Within society there are two types of work, unpaid private sphere work and paid public sphere work, and for the purposes of this essay the former will be referred to as family and the later will be referred to simply as work. The goal of this essay is to answer a question in regards to the inequality between men and women when it comes to family and work, but, more so the inequalities between women with children and those women without. For the purpose of this essay children will be defined as dependents under the age of eighteen whom the female or male party being referenced has a legal obligation to provide care for either through paternal/maternal relations or adoption. Throughout the essay the issues of gender stereotypes, phenomena of …show more content…
These perceptions are rooted in the idea that the woman’s priorities and primary loyalty is not for the company she works for but for the family she has at home (Hobbler et al, 2009). If a woman does not have a family to be responsible too she will not be subjected to these same stereotypes of difficulty with work family balance. This lack of stereotyping is a reflection of the ability to put work first as they did not have “the burden of child care and child education”(Schueller-Weidekamm and Kautzy-Willer, 2012:247). Additionally, it appears at the very least in European nations that women are climbing the company ladder based on merit (The Economist, 2011). As after a quota in Norway was implement cornering companies to increase the number of women found on their boards, these firms saw a fall in one measure of corporate value, Tobin’s Q, drop eighteen percent (The Economist, 2011). This drop in essentially assets demonstrates the lack of competency and training for the job at hand that the new members to the board, women, had displayed. Therefore, lending to the conclusion that the few women whom made it to the board prior to the quota deserved to be there based on skill and not gender just as the men