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Do Men Get Paid More Than Women?

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Gender Pay Gap
When I was younger, I was taught I can be anything I want to be in the world, as long as I put all my energy and time into it. When I got my first job, me and a male co-worker performed the same tasks every day, but when we compared paychecks his wages were higher than mines. We both worked for the company the same amount of time, but he was promoted over me even though I applied for a promotion. I always thought, well the managers truly believed he deserved the position because he was more qualified than me, but turns out it was gender bias. Oprah Winfrey quoted “Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism”, meaning that excellence does not have any bias or discrimination. So my research question is why do men get …show more content…

Weber and Durkheim’s ideas are not directly related to my social problem.
In the early 1800s women were seen as inferior towards men. Women never had a voice, and was always controlled by a male relative. Females moving from girlhood to womanhood their fathers were in charge of their everyday events and growing up they had to respect every male relative in their families. Once a woman is married her duty is to her husband that will make all the family decisions. The goal of a woman during this time period was to bear and raise the children, tend to the house chores like cooking and cleaning, and finally serving her husband. Women did not have any rights and were prohibited to receive education or engage in professions allowed to men. Only rich and wealthy families were allowed to educated their daughters but only through the knowledge of reading, writing and etiquette on becoming a proper woman. Even though women could not work high end jobs, they still did minor jobs by either working in factories or in domestic service like cleaning, becoming a nanny, cooking, and doing laundry for wealthy families. The low level jobs were only offered to women; however, they still were not recognized during this era. Beginning in the 19th century women began working in textile mills, clothing factories, workshops, coal mines, and on farms. According to

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