1. Two occupations in which women are significantly overrepresented, meaning that the number of women in the occupation is much larger than the number of men, include registered nurses and secretaries and administrative assistants. According to the chart, in 2010 there were 1,763,000 more female full-time wage and salary registered nurses than male, and 2,195,000 more female full-time wage and salary secretaries and administrative assistants than male.
2. Two occupations in which women are significantly underrepresented include janitors and building cleaners and driver/sales and truck drivers. In 2010, there were 662,000 more male full-time wage and salary janitors and building cleaners than female, and 2,228,000 more male full-time wage and …show more content…
In my view, the strongest argument in favor of comparable pay for comparable work is that it is time to end “systemic” gender-based pay discrimination, just as the United States has outlawed slavery and child labor. Brennan creates a strong argument for this by using statistics and findings from studies conducted by the American Compensation Association. This is a strong argument because the reader understands how disturbingly dangerous and disgusting slavery and child labor were, and allows the reader to associate the negative effects of pay wage discrimination with other forms of discriminatory work. Brennan also argued that there were equally good market-based economic justifications for slavery and child labor, and that gender pay discrimination is no different. This is also a strong argument because, although money was made off of slavery and child labor, the conditions and effects of the two were so heinous that it did not matter how much money people were making off of …show more content…
Bares creates a strong argument by using a real world example supported by facts and numbers. Bares cited how society demands for different kinds of jobs and in certain fields, such as science, there are not enough qualified workers to meet the increasing demand for workers. For positions where demand exceeds supply, the market responds by creating incentives in the form of higher wages. Rather than interfering with an employer 's ability to attract the talent needed to succeed in certain fields of study, our attention should focus on getting more women into high-demand, and consequently high-paying, jobs like those in the sciences. This is a strong argument because Bares, a female with a daughter herself, is focusing her argument on how women need access to these higher-paying yet male-dominated and in-demand jobs. She suggests that attempting to enforce fairness would increase the costs of doing business in the United States and create economic circumstances that promote the outsourcing of jobs or replace the job with technology, which diverts the readers’ focus from the notion that “equal pay is needed because it is equal and fair” to “we should allow women to use their skills to work in higher-paying
2. Two occupations in which women are significantly underrepresented include janitors and building cleaners and driver/sales and truck drivers. In 2010, there were 662,000 more male full-time wage and salary janitors and building cleaners than female, and 2,228,000 more male full-time wage and …show more content…
In my view, the strongest argument in favor of comparable pay for comparable work is that it is time to end “systemic” gender-based pay discrimination, just as the United States has outlawed slavery and child labor. Brennan creates a strong argument for this by using statistics and findings from studies conducted by the American Compensation Association. This is a strong argument because the reader understands how disturbingly dangerous and disgusting slavery and child labor were, and allows the reader to associate the negative effects of pay wage discrimination with other forms of discriminatory work. Brennan also argued that there were equally good market-based economic justifications for slavery and child labor, and that gender pay discrimination is no different. This is also a strong argument because, although money was made off of slavery and child labor, the conditions and effects of the two were so heinous that it did not matter how much money people were making off of …show more content…
Bares creates a strong argument by using a real world example supported by facts and numbers. Bares cited how society demands for different kinds of jobs and in certain fields, such as science, there are not enough qualified workers to meet the increasing demand for workers. For positions where demand exceeds supply, the market responds by creating incentives in the form of higher wages. Rather than interfering with an employer 's ability to attract the talent needed to succeed in certain fields of study, our attention should focus on getting more women into high-demand, and consequently high-paying, jobs like those in the sciences. This is a strong argument because Bares, a female with a daughter herself, is focusing her argument on how women need access to these higher-paying yet male-dominated and in-demand jobs. She suggests that attempting to enforce fairness would increase the costs of doing business in the United States and create economic circumstances that promote the outsourcing of jobs or replace the job with technology, which diverts the readers’ focus from the notion that “equal pay is needed because it is equal and fair” to “we should allow women to use their skills to work in higher-paying