Essay Plan B Several explanations have been put forward to explain why the gender-wage gap persists in Australia. Pick two and critically evaluate each. Summary of Argument: Recent history has shown a dramatic increase in the proportion of female workers in the labour market (Loudon‚ McPhail & Wilkonson 2009). With workplace diversity on the rise in Australia (French‚ Lewis & Phetmany 2000)‚ legislation and changing cultural values have changed the way these women have been able to enter the workforce
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The Gender-Wage Gap The gender wage gap is often perceived as and old fashion occurrence‚ however‚ the inequality between men and women still does exist in today’s workforce. Australia’s gender-wage may not be as prominent as it was in the past and few figures conclude that the gap is narrowing but women are still being discriminated against (McGregor & Still 1996). To reduce and finally demolish the gender wage gap‚ the Australian government needs to take action and regulate laws in employment
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Summary/Response Part-time Employment Undermines Students Commitment to School Summary: In the essay‚ "Part-time Employment Undermines a Student’s Commitment to School" by Laurence Steinberg‚ it explains how studies show that teenagers that work while attending school are more likely to loose their commitment to school. Steinberg tells the affects on students when they work more than twenty hours a week. His theory was that students are more susceptible to losing their interest in school‚
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agency: Implications for stereotypes of gender and other groups. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology‚ 71(1)‚ 25-38. Farrell ‚ J.‚ & Glynn‚ S. (2013‚ April 9). What causes the gender wage gap? . Retrieved from http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/labor/news/2013/04/09/59658/what-causes-the-gender-wage-gap/ DERUY‚ E. (2013‚ April 5). Wage gap between women and men unlikely to end before 2057 . Retrieved from http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News/wage-gap-end-2057/story?id=18890757 Bassett
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The Pay Gap Needs to Stop Imagine getting treated less than an equal‚ just because you are a woman. Should men honestly receive a higher wage than women for doing the same job? On average a woman earns 77 cents to every dollar a man makes (Boushey‚ Arons‚ and Smith). A woman gets paid less to work just as hard as a man if not harder. This is not fair. Men and women should receive equal pay. In the U.S. there are about 10 million single. These mothers struggle to make end meet‚ due to the facts that
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their labor. Also‚ there’s a significant gap in the number of female politicians‚ as opposed to males. Women do
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The Gender Wage Gap in America The gender wage gap has been around since women began having jobs and careers. Though in the beginning the gender wage gap was purely do to discrimination by social stereotypes‚ now it has become more complicated than that. The issue today has evolved into a complex issue which combines our American culture with business economics. As a result‚ some are skeptical of the issue and some are very adamant in their beliefs. The issue encompasses not only gender stereo types
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and in gender. It’s no surprise that even to this day men are still at a higher level than women. It is a fact that women are paid less than men by a vast amount. During the American Revolution women were mostly at home serving as house maids while men did work labor and brought home the money. In the year 1970‚ white men were paid 100 percent of their earnings while white women got paid 58.7 percent‚ there is no denying the difference in the wage gap between genders. In addition‚ the wage gap didn’t
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Composition M7D2: Uncovering the Gender Gap One of the greatest social transformations of our time has been the movement of women into the labor force. As the numbers of females moving into the labor force prevail‚ the opportunities for women exist substantially more than ever before. As women cloud the workplaces‚ their presence is becoming prominent and common. However‚ there is one issue still being debated upon‚ the gender gap. The problem of gender differences in salary raises a lot
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Gender wage gaps Introduction 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
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