makes less than seventy cents (Rampbell). In Belgium‚ the gender wage gap is less than 10%‚ meaning a woman makes more than ninety cents for every dollar a man makes (Rampbell). In the United States‚ women make about seventy-five cents for every dollar a man makes; between men and women‚ there is a 23-25% gap in income. There is no denying that the gender wage gap exists‚ but many question whether we should attempt to close it. The gender wage gap should be closed because there is no logical reason why
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THE GENDER WAGE GAP IN THE UNITED STATES Name: Alejandra Aguilera Date: Teacher’s Name: Subject: Language B Word count: 1186 THE GENDER WAGE GAP IN THE UNITED STATES Introduction 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
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twenty-one cents to every dollar a man earns. The wage gap between genders was and is still a problem around the globe. The process to fix this broken system may take an estimate of 118 years‚ but there are things being implemented to rectify the wage gap‚ such as‚ raise of the minimum wage‚ paid sick days and pay transparency (Grimley). The Center for American Progress recently released a report called 7 Actions that Could Shrink the Gender Wage Gap it states‚ “While nearly two-thirds of mothers are
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Mindy Ou Mr. Bridges English 12 28 Jan 2013 Introduction Historically and sexist speaking‚ women are discriminated because of gender. And issues arose because of this. Even in the beginning 1990’s there was a big gender gap in American history. It still goes on even today. Women get paid lower in income‚ suffraged in elections‚ and are abused domestically. Money wise‚ job amounts of payments are not getting distributed proportionally. There’s a big difference within a male’s annual income and
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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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Bridging the Gender Inequality Gap Despite the implementation of global policies and projects to address gender inequality in the developing world‚ women continue to lag behind men in virtually all aspects of development. In Africa‚ women are responsible for 75% of all the agricultural work as well as 60 to 80 percent of the production and marketing of the resulting foodstuff‚ yet the earn only 10 percent of the total revenue and own less than 1 percent of the land (Pages 86 – 87‚ International
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There is no gender wage gap. Many are familiar with the women make 77 cents to a man’s dollar study‚ but it is flawed. The media blows the wage gap out of proportion‚ and there are many reasons people believe it exists. The wage gap is nonexistent due to the other factors that people that don’t really pay attention to like‚ men and women are paid the same for the same work‚ it’s not in the company’s best interest to pay men more for several reasons‚ men spend more time at work‚ and no one can say
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The Gender pay gap Historically‚ gender inequality has always been a phenomenon embedded in our cultural infrastructure and today it still exists in our society in the subtle form of Pay Gap‚ a social issue that exposes income discrepancy between men and women. There are multiple causes to this difference of wage and the measure of pay gap fluctuates greatly based on demographics and economic status. Pay gap affects us in various ways in terms of job selectivity‚ economic functionality‚ and gender
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Another research about women wage gap is conducted by Kidd and Shannon (2002) in Australia. This research tries to project the future gender wage gap in 2031 by using income distribution survey in 1996 and Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) demographic projections (Kidd & Shannon‚ 2002). The result shows that even though there are a significant number of women in the workforce‚ the gender wage gap will not change considerably in 2031 (Kidd & Shannon‚ 2002). Moreover‚ despite women achievement
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The gender gap in physical sciences To some extent‚ it would be improbable to say that our differences are explicable by merely cultural or social factors‚ since either sex should be designed by nature for different purposes (Boureau‚ 2005). Irrespective of prejudice and discrimination‚ stereotyping itself is a viewpoint taken based on group agreement‚ ‘where the easiest course for a stereotyped person is to stay within the bounds of those expectations’ (Fiske‚ 1993). Through enhanced ‘gender schemas’
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