By incorporating my research questions and hypotheses,
I was able to strengthen the research topic formed by the author in this journal article.
According to research findings into the gender pay gap by the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC), the argument of many economists as to why there is still a substantial pay gap between the genders is that of an individual 's acquired human capital; the individual differences (made) in the choice of investment in education and training, type of occupation, sector of employment and employment status. '…
The goal of this course is to introduce students to one central and dominant themes in sociology:…
Gender pay gaps persist not only in the United States but also around the world. The gender pay inequality is the reason why female in America makes 78 cents per 1 dollar of males’ salary. The gender is still the factor when it comes of determining a salary for an employee. Woman always placed with wage discrepancies and difference compared to what men earn. Unseen and often not acknowledged barriers that stop a woman from rising to upper position regardless of their achievement or qualifications. These patterns shows acceptance and power of social structure in our society.…
Today’s society continues to argue about the subject of social inequalities even in cosmopolitan and first world countries like United States. Gender inequality is a subject that have been forgotten eventually since the women civil rights movement developed and they started gaining an equal right for work. Still, in U.S history, gender inequalities remain till today in relation to the workplace to some degree. The Gender Wage gap is considered a gender inequality, but could be also a result of the interaction of many factors such as education, hours of work, career, etc. Indeed, by definition it is a “statistical indicator” of the amount of money women’s earn in relation to men’s work salaries and calculated by dividing the median annual earnings of women with the median annual earnings of men (Brunner and Rowen, 2012; OECD).…
Throughout the last century, Canada has changed greatly as a nation. Events varying from World War battles to human rights breakthroughs have shaped Canada into what the country is presently. Prideful events such as the Battle of Vimy Ridge established identity, independence and nationalism for Canadians. Shameful events though, such as the Internment of Japanese-Canadians, violated human rights and promoted inequality. Canada developed as a nation during the twentieth century through the victory of the Battle of Vimy Ridge in World War One, the Persons Case in 1929 and the internment of Japanese-Canadians throughout the Second World War.…
Gender inequality has been ongoing debate in the workforce for years. Men have always been on the top with higher wages and positions while women are expected to be doing the unpaid domestic jobs. However, as a result of globalization there are more job opportunities for women, although men are still the dominant gender in the workforce. In this paper we will look at how three characters from John Wiseman’s ‘Barbie in a Borderless World? A Case Study’ has been affected due to globalization and their gender order.…
Doherty, L., & Stead, L.(1998). The Gap between Male and Female Pay: What Does the…
When the men had to go leave for war, this opened up a vast majority of jobs for women to take over since the work industry could not stop without men as the economy of Canada would become terrible. Women had to do jobs that they would normally never do, like working labour jobs or in factories of different kinds. Even through all the trauma and stress women were going through, they were being very successful with having these many job opportunities. Most women had kids that they had to watch too, so they weren’t just doing one job. Also, the most favoured job that women were choosing was becoming a nurse, about 2400 women became a nurse in this time of the year. These nurses had to sometimes go into battles and help the wounded and they also helped treat…
The idea that women earn less than men in the work place is no longer a subject for debate. Study after study has shown that women earn less than their male counterparts. In 1998, for every dollar a man makes, a woman earns .73 cents (CNN, 2000). Since then it has gotten better but not by much. As of 2010 women earned .79 cents to every dollar earned by men. The gender wage gap is a statistical indicator used to show the status of women 's earnings relative to men 's. This nation, unfortunately, has a history of making gender inequality legal. Laws pass early in the 20th century showed that the view that many in the country did not believe that women could not do the same amount of work that men did. This gave way to wage disparity.…
Feminist theory does not have one official definition and can take many different forms (Hick, 2010). Most feminists agree that all women in society have the right to obtain the same economic, political and social rights that their male counterparts experience (Hick, 2010). The belief that women are treated differently than men within society is a well-known phenomenon. Historically, the basis of feminist theory is presumed to have arisen out of the three waves of feminism (Hick, 2010). Women in Canada have made vast strides towards attaining more rights and resisting gender-based discriminatory beliefs and assumptions that aim to socially exclude women from reclaiming their womanhood (Mullaly, 2010). Women’s social position as subordinate…
Many individuals classify as the prosperous or unfortunate, and the differentiation amongst the two groups continue to expand yearly; this categorization is known as income inequality. The sociological perspective, more so the structural functionalism, also identified as functionalism, can be used to further examine income inequality. Structural functionalism was introduced by Talcott Parsons, and it accentuates that efficient healthcare and excellent wellbeing are two fundamental factors for a human being to function well. Each person’s health helps the society function because when multiple individuals are unhealthy, the society is at risk imbalance.…
Basic rights (such as the right to vote and work) for women of visible minorities were extended to them long after the same rights were extended to white men and women and of course, later for white women. Before the World War Two ear, the media romanticized the role of women as housewife leaving the man to be the sole breadwinner for the household as the woman does the unpaid work in the house taking care of the family. In relation to Lecture 6, post-World War Two era, Canada has seen a notable increase in women’s presence in the labour market, however there is a distinct unequal representation in the three labour sectors – primary, secondary and service sectors. With respect to gender dynamics, it is important to note that there is a higher percentage of women who are working in these service sector. (cite?) Further analyzing the intersectionality of race, gender, class, sexuality and in this context class. This continues to be a problematic factor within our labour force. It is important to note that women often encounter the “glass ceiling”. However, there are much more limitations placed on other visible minorities of women in the labour market than there are white women.…
The problem of inequality in the Canadian labor force is defined through the examples of equal education standards that are often ignored in terms of immigrant labour. In this aspect of “equal labour-market return”, many immigrants coming into Canada are often educated in very highly level international academic institutions, yet they are not considered valid in terms of gaining employment in Canada. In this way, the Canadian immigration labor policies do not acknowledge these academic credentials as a barrier to equal employment in Canada. Certainly, many of these immigrant come to Canada with the necessary education and skill requirements in the labour force, but these barriers define why many immigrants cannot find equal levels of income…
Gender equality in Canada has been a struggle for a great deal of time, and to this day, still is. The greatest accomplishment that Canada can show for this issue is Kim Campbell and her roughly half year in office. The biggest cause for the disproportional gender balance in politics has to do with the stigma against women in office due to the social values from the past. Because society treated women and men much differently in the past, especially in politics, there is still a similar mentality in modern society. With that being said, there are also other extraneous variables that could explain the gender balance in politics. First, the political ideologies of a woman running could be on the right wing, but could be in a left wing society.…
Everyone is entitled to the equal wages for equal work. However, women’s average income has been lower than men’s in nearly all occupation and women in Canada are still far behind the men’s starting line on wage in the labour market. It is one of many parts of gender inequality in Canada, when considering labour market participation in view of gender. I think that the current measures to settle wage discrimination are not effective enough to correspond to market income inequality. That’s why I choose this topic. It is required to think of new alternatives for closing the gap. So I provide a few ways to figure out gender wage gaps.…