If you are not a part of the LGBT community then you might not have understood or even realized the amount of discrimination that society, specifically employers, place on these individuals. What’s even more astonishing to think about is the fact that it doesn’t stop there. The wage gap in regards to the entire LGBTQ. plus community is not easy to measure because of the lack of access to information about the majority of the community. There is a lack of information to be found for a LGBT people and it may be due to many people not coming out and stating their sexual orientation on official documents, the most information to be found is focused on gay men and lesbians. The information is easier to access and study for gay men and lesbians. Gay men are at a disadvantage while lesbians have no problem earning the same or more than heterosexual women.
A wage gap has been seen in regards to same sex orientation compared to heterosexuals and while it has decreased in recent years it is still present. In a journal from the Industrial and Labor Review, lesbians have an advantage over their heterosexual counterparts. Gay men are at a slight disadvantage in comparison to married heterosexual, but not heterosexual men who are just cohabitating. Marriage and family are not …show more content…
In “Gay Pay in the U.K.”, it suggests that because for lesbians “there are fewer labour market interruptions associated with marriage and child bearing” (Arabsheibani 352). People seem to find it harder to accept a gay men as a boss or peer because them as going against traditional values, but for women their sexual orientation doesn’t create a wage gap. Although lesbian women earn more than heterosexual women, they still earn less than gay men. Their rise over heterosexual women doesn’t cancel out that they are women and there is still a gender gap to
A wage gap has been seen in regards to same sex orientation compared to heterosexuals and while it has decreased in recent years it is still present. In a journal from the Industrial and Labor Review, lesbians have an advantage over their heterosexual counterparts. Gay men are at a slight disadvantage in comparison to married heterosexual, but not heterosexual men who are just cohabitating. Marriage and family are not …show more content…
In “Gay Pay in the U.K.”, it suggests that because for lesbians “there are fewer labour market interruptions associated with marriage and child bearing” (Arabsheibani 352). People seem to find it harder to accept a gay men as a boss or peer because them as going against traditional values, but for women their sexual orientation doesn’t create a wage gap. Although lesbian women earn more than heterosexual women, they still earn less than gay men. Their rise over heterosexual women doesn’t cancel out that they are women and there is still a gender gap to