Advantages And Disadvantages Of The Gender Division Of Labor

    Bianchi provides data showing the amount of hours women and men spend doing housework and childcare and the data shows women spend more time doing those tasks. In the 1990’s studies show men were not willing to do housework and childcare, leaving the women to do it instead, which only caused the gender inequality to rise. However, in 2010 the study shows that the housework has become a little more equal among men and women. Now women are working outside the homes now and not staying home. Not only has the amount of hours of housework changed, but the amount of hours fathers spend tending to child care has increased about two hours in 1975 to about seven hours in 2010. As society and culture changes family size decreases.

So how do all these changes in society and family affect the division of household labor?

To this day, women get paid less due to the motherhood penalty, educational opportunities, women’s roles in the society historically, choice of job, and more. All of these components affect women’s wages and the superiority of men in the labor force. One side of the argument states that women rightfully deserve the downside of this wage gap, and others posses the opinion that all workers should be treated equally. Historically, gender roles have gotten in the way of equality in pay. However, people also believe that women choose jobs that do not offer an abundance of pay. Factors such as the motherhood penalty have skewed the pay gap as well. While some people believe that women should be treated equally regarding pay, since they are doing

Throughout history, even in today's world, women’s achievements are not valued as high as men’s achievements. This has been happening ever since rulers and social classes back in ancient rome. Even in today’s world, women are still discriminated against by females are paid only 84 cents per dollar paid to men on average. Others may say, the statistic that men are paid more per hour account to how females take more time of work, or that women just take jobs that pay less. Anti-wage gap people say that no one is stopping the women of America to go into higher paying jobs, females choose the lower paying jobs to go into by themselves. Nevertheless, the wage gap is not for these reasons, it is purely a statistic

The gender wage gap is a prominent issue which is fought for in feminism today. In the past, this standard has been justified due to the fact that women were more likely to be stay-at-home moms, and were less likely to have jobs or college degrees. Today, women are getting comparable education to men, and working comparable jobs, yet the issue remains. The gender wage gap is a women’s rights issue based on the old-fashioned role of women in society which needs to be fought against and decreased in the United States during this current political and social climate.

The oppression of women through occupationally established sex segregation and the gender wage difference remains an important economic discussion. The overall gender wage gap has fallen significantly since 1890 to its current rate of 21.4%. Women are making great strides increasing their labor market experience and skills. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Report 58.6% of women make up the labor force, 50.2% have multiple jobs, and 75.4% of single mothers are in the labor force. Today more women are head of households. Despite all the progress a large gender pay gap still exist. This is not simply a result of women’s choices, but structural, economic and social barriers that limit women’s ability to compete resulting in lower pay.

The gendered wage gap has been a controversial topic that's been around since women started working at jobs for money in the United States during the 1900’s era. With a steadily increasing amount of women working at jobs, came steadily strong opinions about women’s work rights. Women had been given a lesser wage compared to their male counterparts and it outraged women. However, as women were treated more and more equal, their wages were treated more equally as well. Then came a stand still in this improving equality for women in the 21st century, as it has been debated that women are now treated equally, compared to men. This standstill has caused even further debate ranging from several things with most focusing on

The wage gap is a major issue that is constantly brought up in the work place. Many people use the term “wage gap” to state how gender can affect someone’s income. There has always been an understanding that men typically made more money than women. For a long time, women were not allowed to work therefore men were in charge of “bringing home the bacon”. However, times have changed and there are many situations where a household is centered off a women’s’ income. Females can become single mothers who have a responsibility to care for a child(s). Responsibilities can include monthly payments of water and electric bills and even weekly payments towards groceries. Women have to acquire enough money so that they are able to support the people they need too and not have to rely on a male’s income solely. Stays at home dads are being more popular as well. Gender and race should not be a factor in the amount of money someone can make, though the amount of schooling and hours put into the job should be the primary consideration when it comes to determining income.

Let's start with some simple economics to drive my point home. If I was a business owner, and I could hire women for 21 cents less per dollar, I would NEVER hire a man again. Business is all about being profitable, and if this gap were to exist, the ratio of men to women working jobs would be skewed enormously towards women.

The Arguments For and Against the Idea that There Is a Move Toward a More Equal Division of Labour Within the Home

In 2014, female full-time workers made only 79 cents for every dollar earned by men, a gender wage gap of 21% according to IWPR Org or Institute for Women’s Policy Research. There is no debate that in the past women have been discriminated against when it came to compensation and wages in the workforce which led to the enactment of the Equal Pay Act of 1963. This a federal law signed by John F Kennedy attempting to amend wage disparity based on sex, under this law, it is still illegal for employers to discriminate wages by sex for the same amount of work, which requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility and are performed under similar working conditions with the exception of seniority system, merit system, or based on quantity or quality of production. With all these laws and statistics, the raw differences between the gender wage gap can be attributed to the differences in choices made by an individual.

If this is so then who is responsible for creating the wage gap? “The conservative answer to this problem [wage discrimination] tends to be, 'Oh, women don't want to work as hard, because they usually want more time off to take care of their kids or parents.' So, to them, its women's own fault” (Ashley Portero). There are some women who would take the time off to care for their children but there are other women who can handle both without asking for time off. This can go back to Butler and how she explained that not all women should be grouped together. “In spite of its narrowing, the gender pay gap persists. Why is this? In our survey, women were more likely to say they had taken career interruptions to care for their family.” Women have to take time off to care for their family because they are expected to do so. The women who are married could have continued t work while their husbands took the time to care for the family but this is not “socially correct.” Women are represented as being the primary caretakers of the family and they are represented as nurturing and emotional. These representations are what create the stereotypes and these representations are the reasons why women don’t have the same opportunities that men do when they are in the labor force. Representation is key in the sense that women are being made the subject of these representations. The representations did not create women and in turn women are not all the same. Another thing that can relate here is how Butler says that there is heteronormativity present in gender. Gender and sex are both equally socially constructed. It is the beliefs and cultures that create the subject of “woman” not the woman that creates these beliefs and cultures. The stereotypes create these discriminations against women in the workplace and at home due to the fact that some men still to this day believe women belong at home

Division of labor of the home is regarded in many different ways. Willingly taking on their assigned roles, numerous families abide by these assignments, still; other marriages want more equality in this division of household chores. A lot of these tasks can be strenuous and demanding. The responsibilities that come with these daily routines can also be life threatening if not carefully performed. A few of the duties in the day-to-day trade of maintaining a household include things such as cooking, cleaning, and caring for children. Division of labor among races is also different. Cultures influence how these roles will be assigned and completed. First traditional Mexican American women take on the household chores with great pride.

Women have faced gender wage discrimination for decades. The gender pay gap is the difference between what a male and a female earns. It happens when a man and a woman standing next to each other doing the same job for the same number of hours get paid different salaries. On average, full-time working- women earn just “77 cents for every dollar a man earn.” When you compare a woman and a man doing the same job, “the pay gap narrows to 81 percent (81%)” (Rosin). Fifty-one years ago, in order to stop the gender gap discrimination, Congress enacted the Equal Pay Act of 1963. The act states that all women should receive “equal pay for equal work”. Unfortunately, even in 2014 the gender pay gap persists and even

Sociological study on the gendered division of labour within the domestic sphere has perennially been characterised by evidence of a clear inequality concerning the allocation of unpaid chores within the home between men and women (Warren, 2003:734). While men have traditionally been regarded as primary breadwinners, the management of home-maintenance has remained largely women’s responsibility (Breen & Cooke, 2005:47). A number of theories exist to explain this unequal distribution of domestic labour, in particular the economic exchange model (which argues that women perform domestic duties in ‘exchange’ for financial support from their husbands), and the gender display model, which asserts that household labour is divided on the basis of