Gender Inequality

There are hundreds and thousands of athletes all around the world but the main problem in the athlete world is gender inequality, women are not shown equal as men. They are discriminated in many ways such as pay, employment opportunities, value of women 's sport, media coverage etc. Despite the federal law passed called Title IX that “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination." there is still gender inequality women are considered less than men. No matter what happens people will always have inequality against men and women because of the environment they live in and how they were raised. Women are

Gender inequality plays a critical role when it comes to social progress. As a woman,

Gender inequality has become a more pronounced global dispute among the media in 2016. We can trace the inequality of genders back to the beginning of time, but one major aspect that was discussed in class is coverture. Coverture was a legal doctrine in the early 19th century United States that essentially defined wives to be the legal property of her husband. Women restricted by coverture has no existence outside of their marriage. They had no right to vote, could not own property, or do any business under their own name. Coverture did not come to an end until the mid 20th century, which was a long and torturous fight for women. The Women’s Suffrage movement in the 1920s could be cause for the extinction of coverture altogether.

As a woman, don’t you want a job? Don’t you want to be the owner of a large business? Don’t you want to be the CEO of the largest company in the world? Being a woman can stop these dreams from becoming a reality. As stated by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA, 2015), in Australia only 12% of women hold chair positions, 17.3% in CEO positions, 23.7% in directorships and only 26.1% as the key management personnel. As seen by these statistics, men have taken over 70% of leadership positions in Australia and leading on from this, women result in having lower pay

Women struggle in terms of salary compensation compared to men. In fact, because of such inequality, the term Glass Ceiling has been established. The Glass ceiling is best defined as the invisible salary ceiling that exists for women and minorities in the workplace. However, this invisible ceiling has very visible effects. “In that same aggregate, women earn 73.5% of the salary of men,” (Kimmel 2013:691). This invisible boundary, refuses advancement to women based on societal standards of inferiority, lack of dedication to work (because of second shift duties), and the general belief that a woman’s place is at home not in the work

This implies the workplace issues and salary are received in a non-oppressive manner and depend on the abilities, skills and responsibilities to name a few. Training, promotions, and adaptable working courses need to be equally open to women workers as they are to men staff members. Australian Bureau of Statistics, a government agency, recently showed numbers that proved that gender-based salary inequality still happens in Australia. These numbers demonstrated that the compensation difference is genuine and females are paid around 20% less than their male counterparts in comparative parts at work. What appears to impact this genuine difference are components, like undervaluation of the businesses owned/controlled by females workforce, lessened availability to training for females, low interest in reward and performance allowances by females and absence of adaptability in the workforce not permitting employees with family duties to flourish, and of course females form a big part in this category.

Gender inequalities in the workplace have been an ongoing issue for many years, which has mainly been central to women in the workplace, as senior management has prioritised men over women. This has made it very difficult for women to work their way up to management as women are considered to be incompetent compared to the men in the workplace. The wage gap between men and women has raised much debate, as men are generally more likely to get paid more than women.

The controversy surrounding gender inequality has been ever present. However, the definition and understanding of gender inequality appear to have changed over time as it became increasingly recognised that is a serious social problem that affects a significant proportion our society. According to Hirby (2016) gender inequality, is sometimes called sex discrimination, which means receiving unequal treatment based solely on gender. Women are believed to be greatest victims of gender inequality in the workplace. Despite decades of reform, statistics suggest that for every dollar a man earns a woman in a similar job earns just 77 cents (Hirby, 2016). This suggests that there are still improvements to be made.

Throughout history, women's roles in society have been different than those of men's. Women’s jobs were generally connected to their traditional roles of caring for the home, raising children, making clothes, and cooking food, while men were the breadwinners in the families. Women had been brought up to become mothers (as well as nurturers) while men were brought up to become entrepreneurs and businessmen. It was not until the 1950s that women began to protest and fight for equal rights. Since then, many have claimed that the disparities between women and men have drastically decreased, almost to the point that it is minimalistic. However, in today's society, although we would

Considered superiority to be tendered man accustomed by women to respect men. Whether at home or any work environment. There is no equality between genders, even men who identify as gay may not have the same privileges. And as a feminist, all I seek is for equality. The effort the feminists’ strive for equality inspired me to seek equality, because a female deserves to be valued just as a male.

Gender segregation in the labour force is the unevenness in the distribution of occupational titles of women and men. In Australia, as elsewhere, gender segregation is still a primary focus of how the internal labour market have positioned women and men within workplace hierarchies – affecting future career prospects. The core reason as to why occupational gender segregation in Australia still currently exists is the under-valuation of women’s skills and abilities. Studies show that those occupations with a high proportion of male receive a higher income than a female-dominated workplace as ‘men’s work’ has historically proven to be more highly valued than ‘women’s work’. Women’s work can be under-valued due to several contributing factors

Social status and structures have definitely shaped the construction and experience of gender inequality. Men and women are constantly analyzed, compared, and grouped together in society. The result of this yields discrepancies in how sexes are viewed by society. Throughout my examination and explanation of gender inequality, I concluded both men and women are victims to gender inequality.

For generations, women and men have been held to different standards when it came to the work force and in recent years, the United States has began to see a breakthrough with these barriers starting to diminish. However, pay inequality still remains prevalent. Men and women working the same jobs are not receiving the same wages and that doesn’t make sense to majority of society. As of 2013, women are only making about 78% of what men make (Hill, 2015) and into 2015 we’re still hovering around the same number. Many are confused as to why there is pay inequality between men and women in the same occupations and that’s why the question trying to be answered here is: what are the causes of gender pay inequality among the workforce in the United States and have they changed over time? Many scholars and people in society might think it hasn’t changed much, but starting with a brief history of US women in the workforce, we will see that there are very obvious upward trends even if a gap still does exist.

Women have been fighting for equal rights and opportunities since the beginning of time. In the year of 2017 it finally seems as though women finally are receiving these equal opportunities. With movements such as women’s suffrage, although long ago, have helped to advance women in places such as the workplace. A big issue with some women nowadays is the wage gap. The problem is not that women are not being paid the same as men in the same positions. It is that men are in higher up positions such as CEOs and grossing more than women. Therefore, the issue is not that there are no equal opportunities for women, it is more of a mindset. Women in 2017, as far as the workplace goes, can achieve anything a man can. It comes back to how we are raised and the current mindsets of Americans. In the United States based upon gender there is now equal opportunity, it is just a matter of whether these opportunities will be ceased.

Who has not heard about “Gender Equality”? Among the mushrooming current issues or topics, there is always demand for open spaces. Actually, it is really a good thing and also a kind of proof that shows a particular result after a period of time, the way of considering something, or opinions of people nowadays become more and more open-minded, willing to consider ideas and opinions that are new or different to be their own. Even, most of the time, you may see that something that is being in discussed, for instance, current affairs, and “Gender Equality” is one among them, seems forcefully, in a way that shows do not expect to be refused. Gender equality is the main means of sex which communicates an