Gender Inequality

Gender inequality within our society denotes the obvious gap and difference of characteristics or capabilities between men and women. In the workplace, there is a variance in earned wages between men and women because of gender inequality. The image above shows statistics in 2010; men earned an annual wage of $41,760 and women earned an annual wage of $36,000. This is a 16% pay gap between men and women in Australia. There are greater numbers of women working today, but they are paid less than men even if their have the same qualification for the job position. Moreover, women have unequal opportunity within the workplace just because of their gender. They are placed in lower job position than men and don’t get the same respect from others. Within the workplace, gender inequality plays a huge role which has an effect on an individual’s life. 

Gender Discrimination

Sex discrimination is a very serious topic, and it is shown that women make 30% less than men do in the work place. Throughout time, women have been portrayed as only housewives caring and nurturing their children while the men are out working. There has been recent change and we see that many women have gone out and found jobs to help their family and make it easier on the husbands. On top of going back to work, women are expected to have the house clean, have the children ready for school, and be a housewife. Studies have shown that there has been an increase in sexual harassment toward women, so they are not only getting paid less than men, they are also being harassed. I think his picture is perfect because it shows that the person in charge is completely oblivious to what the woman is complaining about and she is looking at him from the floor. 

Institutional Discrimination

      Statistics show that women get paid 79¢ to every male $1.00.  these statistics however do not account for the amount of work women do and are expected to do when they get home from their job.  Things like cooking dinner, doing the laundry, and taking care of the kids and house all add up in her unearned income. This 'second shift' that women have to work puts them in a lower income bracket then they already are when compared to men.  It is large corporations and the powerful people that do the hiring that are giving these women unequal pay, therefore it is institutional discrimination.  Although they may not be doing it intentionally, the way we see women in society as less then men definitley influences this gender pay gap.

Gender Discrimination

Discrimination is a denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other reasons. Gender status or position of being male or female in our society affects all aspects of our lives. Our gender depends on the privileges we will or will not have in our lives. Whether it is for our education or our present/future jobs, our gender has a lot to do with the way we are being treated. Especially for women because not only are they being discriminated for being female but are also included in the minority group, which is a category of people who are subjected to unequal treatment by the dominant group, who in this case are males. In general, women earn less than men in 99% of all occupations. Minority women earn less than white males and females in majority of occupations. Females constitute 59% of workers who get paid less than $8 and hour. There is also occupational segregation where for example, in the military there are more men than women working. As well as female physicians earn less money than males. It is unfair.

Institutional Discrimination

Institutional discrimination is when social systems, such as the education institution, create policies and practices that are systematically disadvantageous to certain groups. Only 4% of Hispanics continue through school to achieve an advanced degree in higher education past a Bachelors degree. I would argue this is a form of Institutional Discrimination in the sense that certain policies and practices create educational inequalities for children, straining those who live in lower income communites by not giving them the same education as those of middle or upper class. Low income communities are stuck with the "bad schools" and poor education systems limiting a childs ability. For a hispanic going into the college world with an unequal educational background compared to  his or her peers, it is unlikely for them to continue on past an undergradute education. The population ratio numbers of whites to hispanics in the U.S. does not porportionally match the advanced degree percenteges. Hispanics make up 16% of the U.S. population, yet 11% of whites (and another 11% of non-hispanic whites) continue to receive an adnvaced degree while only 4%  of hispanics do the same. The Cartoon I've chosen I believe shows the different subcomponents that take part in a childs education.

Gender Inequality

Gender inequality, or unequal treatment and availability of opportunities for women based on the social and cultural meanings associated with being female, can be seen in every institution of society with the help of prejudice, stereotypes, individual discrimination, statistical discrimination, and institutional discrimination. Women earn seventy-seven cents for every dollar that men earn and this number has only increased at a rate of less than half a cent per year. This statistic and the image show income inequality in the institution of work in the form of a significant wage gap between men and women. This is an example of statistical discrimination because it deals with inequality in the labor market and employment opportunities. It displays the presence of individual discrimination because employers exhibit a negative behavior towards women by valuing them less for their hard work. It is institutional discrimination because the institution of work privileges men and disadvantages women solely based on their social statuses ascribed to them by their sex. Prejudice, or negative thoughts and attitudes, towards women plays a role because it causes employers to act on their thoughts and attitudes by offering them less money for the same work, even when they have similar levels of education and work experience. Stereotypes about women being the primary caretaker of the home, the husband, and the children, and men being the primary breadwinner lead to justification of the wage gap. Negative treatment, attitudes, and behaviors by individuals and institutions applied towards women combine to create gender inequality in the institution of work and broader society.

Gender Inequality

Gender Inequality
In society we are able to see a huge gender gap, a gap that is between women and men. In the workplace, women have always been paid lower wages than men, as well as women have for the most part placed in lower positions. Although women can perform the same task as men, or do perform the same task as men, they are still under paid. Unlike women, men have higher wages and higher positions, and more likely to advance to higher levels at work. Women do not receive the same treatment at work, nor have the same gender privileges in the workplace. There is a huge division of labor in the workplace.

The picture above shows the inequality in wages and hours. Women and men worked the same hours, but yet, women were paid less than the men.  Full time men working more hours a week have a very higher wage than women. In a average full time week of forty hours, men also were paid more.