Gender Bias In The American Workplace
Writing Assingment 1
Gender Bias in the American Workplace
It is an unfortunate truth that bias against women is still very much alive, even now, in the 21st century. Women in today’s society are at the unfair disadvantage of suffering lower hiring rates and significantly lower starting salaries than that of their male counterparts with an otherwise identical resume. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, working women get 15.4% less on average than what men get for spending 41-44 hours in the office. Women working more than 60 hours earn even less- 21.7% less than men in the same category. (Duddukari, 2010)
A recent study was conducted at Yale on the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Department faculty. The hypothesis was, “Scientists have a superior ability to root out getnder …show more content…
There are probably many different answers to that question. The answer at the top of the list would have to be that it takes more than 40 or 50 years to undo the thinking of literally centuries before the start of the women’s rights movement. Women are viewed as the weaker of the two sexes. We are still assigned our gender roles as that of the cook, the housekeeper, the mother, the nurturer, while men are still being viewed as the stronger, more capable sex. They are the bread winners, the leaders. It is a fact that the higher one looks in the chain of command in most corporations, the fewer and fewer women we see. How do we stop this from continuing and refuse to let this behavior be acceptable? That I don’t know. I believe we are on the right path and that hopefully with perserverence and each generation being more accepting of one another and open to change than the one before them, than in my child’s lifetime we will see equality not just for women, but for other races and people of different sexual
Gender Bias in the American Workplace
It is an unfortunate truth that bias against women is still very much alive, even now, in the 21st century. Women in today’s society are at the unfair disadvantage of suffering lower hiring rates and significantly lower starting salaries than that of their male counterparts with an otherwise identical resume. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, working women get 15.4% less on average than what men get for spending 41-44 hours in the office. Women working more than 60 hours earn even less- 21.7% less than men in the same category. (Duddukari, 2010)
A recent study was conducted at Yale on the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Department faculty. The hypothesis was, “Scientists have a superior ability to root out getnder …show more content…
There are probably many different answers to that question. The answer at the top of the list would have to be that it takes more than 40 or 50 years to undo the thinking of literally centuries before the start of the women’s rights movement. Women are viewed as the weaker of the two sexes. We are still assigned our gender roles as that of the cook, the housekeeper, the mother, the nurturer, while men are still being viewed as the stronger, more capable sex. They are the bread winners, the leaders. It is a fact that the higher one looks in the chain of command in most corporations, the fewer and fewer women we see. How do we stop this from continuing and refuse to let this behavior be acceptable? That I don’t know. I believe we are on the right path and that hopefully with perserverence and each generation being more accepting of one another and open to change than the one before them, than in my child’s lifetime we will see equality not just for women, but for other races and people of different sexual