Essays Tagged: "Gender pay gap"

Wage Discrimination in the Workplace (Note: Received a Grade of B)

eal with their problems. Interestingly enough, more women could buy that new clothing and afford to pay the greens fees if they weren't victims of wage discrimination.The Equal Pay Act and Sex Discrim ... een some admitted advances, they are paling in the face of the persistent and obvious difference in pay between men and women. Forty years ago, President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, mak ...

(7 pages) 255 0 3.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Wage differentiation

on. There are three generic research projects in this area: (1) Wage Decomposition Methods; (2) The Gender Wage Gap; and (3) Industry Wage Differentials.Wage Decomposition MethodsThis project generali ... r in Production: Kevin T. Reilly (2000),A Generalisation of Standard Wage Decomposition Methods.The Gender Wage GapThis is a joint project with Luisa Zanchi of Leeds University Business School, Jaume ...

(19 pages) 524 1 1.8 Apr/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

English Task 2 - Equality

f wage gaps is written by Cassandra Commercia. Her article, entitled "The Wage Gap: Men, Women, and Pay", shed new light on the subject with facts and examples that people overlook. There is an inequa ... t a phenomenon deticated to only one area and type of job. It has been shown to exist in the higher paying jobs as well. For instance, the chart on page 3 tells us that there is still a wage gap betwe ...

(3 pages) 28 0 3.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Human Rights

Socialized sexism

and harassment.Socialized Sexism Results of Yale University's Implicit Assumption Test (IAT) On the gender test I received a score of: "You have a moderate automatic preference between females and sci ... ve the same as me. This number is alarming for many reasons. Not only does it display the perceived gender gap in the sciences and liberal arts, it can be applied to many jobs across America.The famil ...

(5 pages) 40 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Gap in Gender Pay: Why Men make more Money Than Women

k. There may be many reasons for this gap in salaries; most of them may not be necessarily based on gender. The following research will investigate what causes the gap in earnings, if any, and examine ... 77 cents for every $1 earned by men (Head, 2008).Thus, despite a sense of continued progress toward gender equality in the workplace the gap between men and women still persists. The significance of t ...

(4 pages) 65 0 0.0 May/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Wage Gap

ntroduction:The wage gap between men and women has said to have narrowed over the past decade. Yet, gender pay gap has remained one of the consistent areas of inequality between women and men. The pur ... cteristics such as experience, educations, and annual wages. The analysis will find out much of the gender wage gap can be attributed to differences in experience levels, education, and occupations be ...

(6 pages) 67 0 5.0 May/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Wage Gap

k. There may be many reasons for this gap in salaries; most of them may not be necessarily based on gender. The following research will investigate what causes the gap in earnings, if any, and examine ... earn 77 cents for every $1 earned by men (Head, 2008). Despite a sense of continued progress toward gender equality in the workplace this research will delineate if the gap between men and women still ...

(5 pages) 74 0 5.0 Jul/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Gap in Pay due To Gender

The current gender pay gap has remained one of the consistent areas of inequality between women and men. The abo ... nsistently paid more for labor than women. These articles report various estimates on the extent of gender pay gap, ranging between 15-25% favoring men, advising that when women go into potentially hi ... s.I. Review of LiteratureWhile there has been significant progress made towards bridging the gap in gender pay, there is still much work to be done. Within the peer review articles there is also infor ...

(5 pages) 28 0 5.0 Jul/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Debate: Negative group on the topic that Pay inequality is neither inequitable nor inefficient.

pay for the same or similar jobs at the same level in the organisational hierarchy' for example the gender pay gap; vertical inequality refers to the 'difference in pay level between jobs at different ... us indicating that pay inequality is inequitable and inefficient. Overall pay inequity enlarges the gender pay gap, disperses pay structure, and increases instability in the workplace.The 'gender pay ...

(8 pages) 21 0 0.0 May/2010

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Human Resource Management

Salaries and its Effects on Workplace

g about salaries may not be an issue for itself, but when we look in deep all the problems, such as gender, race and marital status discrimination and the salary gap these factors cause is a big issue ... hese factors cause is a big issue on the workplace.There is an important gap in salaries because of gender discrimination. It is known by all men usually make more money than women when we talk about ...

(5 pages) 7 0 0.0 Oct/2011

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Women’s Struggles in Gender Equality and Workforce

Hoang � PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT �1� Women's Struggles in Gender Equality and WorkforceOver the years, although there has been a significant increase in the n ... the years, although there has been a significant increase in the number of women in the workforce, gender inequality has made it difficult for females to find well-paying unconventional jobs in the w ... estors many years ago. Global factors such as war helped contribute to more women in the workforce. Gender should not limit a person's opportunity to work nor should it have an effect on a person's wa ...

(6 pages) 5 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Are Hong Kong’s Gen Y and Gen X different in money, education and work?

re or less the same work ethics with Gen Y. Similarly, Gen X employees work for more than just fair pay. Instead, they enjoy having fun at work and are willing to tackle the challenges arise. Most of ...

(5 pages) 1 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing