Gender Differences In Pay Essay

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No matter how it’s said it remains true - there are an alarming amount of imbalances that exist between women and men in today’s society. Although it has undeniably improved over the last several decades the difference in pay between men and women is still quite noticeable; especially when considering the double shift many women are expected to do. Women still receive less pay in most occupations, regardless of pay equity, where they are performing the same amount of work as their male counterparts. Women are also, statistically, doing more work than men when considering the unpaid domestic and/or caregiving work they do for their families (COURSEPACK). Gender wage gap is described as, “whether we average all incomes or look at specific individuals’ wages for the jobs they do - women earn less than men” (COURSEPACK). Pay equity …show more content…

This results in women regularly working a “second-shift” - a term that Arlie Hochschild describes as, “the housework and childcare that every family must do to function properly” (Kimmel, 2011). Women are struggling to overcome this inequality as men are very adamant to considering change. Women have tried reasoning with spouses, but have been largely denied due to the traditional thinking of what the roles of men and women are. A common compromise to this issue is women working part-time jobs to ensure they are able to maintain housework and childcare without overexerting themselves. This is not ideal as it is still promoting the role of women being the primary caretakers and the obvious inequality women receive. Women should not have to sacrifice their desire to work because they want a family. In No Longer ‘One of the Boys’, by Ranson an interviewee stated, “I didn’t want to try to be the perfect engineer because I knew I wanted a family”

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