The Branding Of Learning Analysis

Men get paid more than females do. Men get promotions more than females do. In the work place women get sexual harassed by their employee. Women who had less education also received less pay. Females have a harder time on trying a CEO position and are challenged when they do earn the position by the male workers. If a male who has graduated college work he will make over 91,000 dollars but if a women who has graduated college works in the same position she would make around 60,000 dollars. So, we don't get paid the same amount even if we do work just as hard as the men

     In many ways today's society, even though women have come a long way, we still live in a patriarchal world. There are many examples of this in everyday life, whether it be that there aren't very many women CEO's or the mere fact that we've yet to have a woman president. No matter where you live, there is the presence of a male dominated world. It especially extends into the working fields. There are professions that are categorically 'women's' jobs like nursing, school teacher, or secretarial jobs. The rest of the professional world is mainly male dominated, i.e. engineering, CEO's of major companies, and Law Firms. Which brings us to the movie I picked to watch, Legally Blonde.

Imagine being told that you do not need as much pay as a man because your husband is a professor and you do not need the money. This was the truth for Maxine Lampe when she addressed the school district about being paid less. Before her husband was done with graduate school, she brought the issue up with the school where she worked and was told that she could not get the head-of-household pay that men received, even though she was the breadwinner. This is not the only account of this happening. All over the country, women are getting paid less than men and being told that it’s okay. It is not okay.

Sexism has been prevalent in our society for generations. It has plagued the views and outlooks on gender, and has molded the populace’s minds to favor one over the other. Engrained within society is the strict framework of binary gender roles, and placing males and females into distinct and rigid categories that they can rarely break free from. While progress has been made with regards to weakening these rigid and unfair gender roles, the prejudice views that run rampant through the minds of the older generations, and into the up-and-coming ones, are difficult to combat. Women are often overlooked and regarded as the inferior gender, and they are often portrayed as individuals who are at men’s every beck and call. This is highlighted through the observations of Paula Rothenberg in her novel Invisible Privilege, she discusses her observations and dealings first hand with prejudice of all kinds. The book recalls her experiences from the mid to late 20th century, which was a time of more blatant sexism, but I will be using other sources in addition to prove that sexism is still a prevalent issue in everyday life. The sources I will pull from in addition to the novel include, “Different but Equal? Inequalities in the workplace, the Nature Based Narrative, and the Title VII prohibition on the Masculinization of the ‘Ideal Workers,’” an academic article by Kristin Housh, which uses statistical information to argue that women are treated differently in the workplace. Secondly, “Gender Bias in Education,” an op-ed by Amanda Chapman, which discusses unequal treatment of women in education, in addition to a visual and song lyrics that also support these arguments. Sexism and unequal treatment of women in the workplace and education is still a problem in society today that needs to be changed.

Women nowadays have opportunities that were not obtainable in past decades but must overcome, or in most cases overlook, the barrier of being punished in the long run for simply being a woman; “gender differences in starting salaries are a significant contributor to long-term earning differentials between men and women” (Bowels and Babcock). It seems to me that in the workforce, a woman is a person just as a man is a person, if that person gets the job done right, he or she should be paid for doing so, if not, that person receives repercussions. The influence of gender on this issue is very curious as to why it is even a factor in the first place.According to “melanievarnell.wordpress.com” Doing research on the equal work equal pay topic has aroused many questions and proposed solutions, but the lingering query is why employers are still enabling this workplace behavior and discrimination in the 21st century. An article titled, “Equal Work for Equal Pay”: Not Even College Helps Women, was written by “Korva Coleman”; who claims that women are worth less than men when entering the workforce after completing a college degree. Throughout the article, Coleman supports her claim using different studies’ results that “show when men and women attend the same kind of college, pick the same major and accept the same kind of job, on average, the woman will still earn 82 cents to every dollar

Most people think that gender equality is now common place in Western societies, but research shows that gender equality, which gained momentum in the 1970s, has since stalled, particularly when we look at class issues. Some issues have been hit head on, issues relating to sexist job ads and some sexist behavior at work…but we still have a long way to go. The wage gap between men and women is especially concerning.

The federal law of The Equal Pay Act of 1963 protects against wage discrimination based on sex doing the equal work when women are performing the same profession and duties being approved. Despite of that law, women average earn 78 cents for each dollar men earn, although the reduction of the gap between women's and men's wages, progress is painfully slow (state news para 3). The same credentials, full-time in the field, such as men, women must still work all year for less money. For example, women's business majors earned $ 38,000 a year or more, then just graduated a little over $ 45,000 compared to men. Two-thirds of women think professional women are scrutinized more harshly than men, compared to half of men who agree. Meanwhile, just a

In many ways today's society, even though women have come a long way, we still live in a patriarchal world. There are many examples of this in everyday life, whether it be that there aren't very many women CEO's or the mere fact that we've yet to have a woman president. No matter where you live, there is the presence of a male dominated world. It especially extends into the working fields. There are professions that are categorically ‘women's' jobs like nursing, school teacher, or secretarial jobs. The rest of the professional world is mainly male dominated, i.e. engineering, CEO's of major companies, and Law Firms. Which brings us to the movie I picked to watch, Legally Blonde?

Many women today work just as hard as their male coworkers and have the same amount of experience and education, maybe even more, but make less money than their coworkers. In the United States and all around the world women are dealing with this problem. There is even a national day that focuses on this exact problem and it doesn’t pertain to one certain industry either. In fact, it is all throughout society. While some education and experience provide more value for women all around the world females are being held back from their potential just because they aren’t men. Society shows this every day. One example of this is how the lead actress in Shameless, Emmy Rossum, is speaking out and demanding equal pay after finding out she has been paid less since the television series started. Rossum plays a key role only to find that some of her male coworkers are making more (Jensen, 2017). The problem is that women are working just as hard as men or even harder, but they are still being deprived.

A woman and a man start the same job, on the same day, with the same qualifications. They will start with the same salaries and benefits, right? Probably not. According to a study by The American Association of University Women, a man and woman can share the same college, major, and career, but the woman will make less than the man. On average women tend to earn roughly 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man (Institute For Women 's Policy Research). In a report published by Catalyst (a non-profit market researcher), it was revealed that women make up 51% of the U.S. population and 47% of the workforce, yet only 4% are CEOs and 17% are board members. As a society, we like to pretend that the virtues of feminism have been met, and that we’re living in an equal world, but the truth of the matter is that the “Glass Ceiling” is very real, and so is the wage gap.

In (source A), they gave information about high school shop class and how they were dismantled in the 1990’s. They wanted all the students to be knowledgeable workers. There are also rhetorical questions being asked as they said in (source A),” But what if such work answers as well to a basic human need of the one who does it?” Which basically mean that the work to a basic human might be challenging instead of the person who actually does the work. (Source C) it shows a graph of men and women hourly wages. Since 2000, americas young college graduates has seen wages adjusted for inflation. On the graph it shows that men wages are higher than women wages every year, because in every career job, men always make more than women do.

By way of contrast, when those same students were asked about payment they stated that the men deserved to get paid more not knowing they were better at job”. Padavic and Redskin further infer that cultural attitudes that devalue women are expressed in the lower value that many employers, workers, and societies place on the work those women usually do. Furthermore, devaluation of women’s work can help to preserve the sex gender

There are many origins to the issue of workplace inequality. Across the world, women are getting paid less and less. The gender wage gap now stands at an average of 22 cents between genders. It is common knowledge that women were often not allowed to work in the past, and if they did they didn’t have the best jobs. With women increasing their education and work experience, it shouldn’t still be an issue. On average, a woman who goes to the same college, gets the same job, and has the same amount of know-how a man does, will get paid 78 cents for every dollar made by the male counterparts.

In places of work, women are often treated differently than men, good or bad it is undeniable that it happens. They are paid less and work harder. But from a young age, girls seem to want to follow in career paths that pay significantly less than those of the ones that young boys want to follow. If you ask a young girl what they want to be when they grow up you may get an answer such as a teacher. As a result of the way women have been treated in workplaces in the past, it seems that there have been a few jobs such as children's education or nursing that is primarily women, possibly as a way to escape the wage gap. With women occupying a majority of these jobs, many have come to understand that these jobs are feminine. But how can a job be feminine? It's a job, not a person with a personality. Yet it happens

Today, education plays a decisive role in obtaining a good job that pays well. Women are getting an education; they are striving to be successful. As a matter of fact, women are procuring more college and graduate degrees than men; they are also outnumbering male students in college enrollment. Every working woman who has the same level of education and is performing similar job duties as men should earn the same as her male counterparts. Women are making progress in every facet of their lives except in closing the gender pay gap that exists between men and women in the workplace.