Sex Segregation And Emotional Labor Summary

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Mary Ellen Guy and Meredith Newman’s research article, “Sex Segregation and Emotional Labor,” attempted to figure out if emotional labor had any influence on why women get paid less than men in the workplace. The discussion section of the article states that emotional labor is one of the causes to lower wages for jobs held primarily by women. Jobs that require the emotive work are thought to better fit women because it requires expressions of care and nurturing, and even though those jobs are tremendously important in our society, they are not given enough credit or pay. This source is credible because it is a peer reviewed journal which means that many experts had an influence in the material discussed and in the publishing of the article.

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