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    Gender Discrimination in the Workplace

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    Gender discrimination can cover a wide variety of social prejudice. Throughout much of world history, even American history women have been treated as second class citizens. In the United States women have had to fight for rights such as the right to vote, or own land. These are just a few examples of the many injustices that women have had to face. Men have held the position of leadership, and power throughout history when it comes to almost everything. Men would even decide to whom a women would

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    Gender Pay Inequality

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    There are a million and one gender inequality issues taken place locally and globally each day. Many of these issues vary in degree and intensity across different countries. The gender wage gap and educational gender gap are by far one of the main inequalities, which undoubtedly affects women and in many cases minorities. Pay equity is greatly deprived in North and South America, the Middle east and Asia. Asia is the largest continent containing approximately 60 percent of the world’s population

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    to be diversity with gender, but behind the scenes, this bias has changed very little. This behind the scenes industry consists of music production, mastering, mixing, A&R, administration and many other record label jobs that are given. The gender biases that exist in today’s music industry serve a harsh reminder of influential sexism, most prominent biases are the attitudes towards women because of pre-existing male preference in the business. In today’s world, we see gender biases that still exist

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    Women 's Rights Of Women

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    clinging to the tradition of men being the superior gender, and women being the inferior gender. They tend to lack faith in women 's strengths, and our capability to the same amount of work that men can do. While I believe that everyone has a right to their own opinion, I have found that things are not equal between men and women especially in the workplace. Across modern day America, the gender gap remains unnaturally wide. The gap between genders is worse in some states that others. The state that

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    “In 2014, female full-time workers made only 79 cents for every dollar earned by men, a gender wage gap of 21 percent. Women, on average, earn less than men in virtually every single occupation for which there is sufficient earnings data for both men and women to calculate an earnings ratio” (IWPR). Since the beginning, women have experienced discrimination whether in the workplace of in general, and unfortunately, it continues on today. Women have always had to fight for equal rights, to vote, to

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    in the hearts of Americans. ("The American Dream, What Is The American Dream?"). Although the American dream dogma is presented to be accessible to all individuals, obstacles and barriers such as financial and social differences, specifically with gender inequalities, limit the ease and simplicity in which such a dream can be achieved for that area of people. Unfortunately, many of these discriminations still exist today. Even more so with women in the work environment, such issues serve as prevalent

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    Gender inequality has become an ongrowing issue in today’s society. This issue begun in early history and has grown over time. In early days it simply began as women not being able to vote or not being able to work. This has improved over time and now women have gained those rights, but there are still inequalities in today’s society between genders. When most people think of gender inequality they automatically think of women. Men have also started to become victims of gender inequality. Men

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    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. As of 2012, women make up 52% of the labor force (Women in the Labor Force: A Databook

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    and easy for gender inequality to thrive. Women have come a long way from what they were and how they were treated, both in society and under the law, but the discrimination is still significant globally, even in places such as Canada. Under the law we all are the same, no matter what gender, race, or background we come from, but in society women still do not get the respect we deserve. No matter what the law or the Supreme Court of Canada states, women still have to face gender discrimination

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    Women 's Role As A Woman

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    are living in 21st century but still we are having to fight for gender wage gap. Women’s work is not seen as more valuable than men, such as if there is a promotion going on in an office environment it’s more likely that the male will get the promotion, “studies have shown that women’s performance at work is evaluated less favorably by male supervisors” (Abendroth, et al., 2017, p. 193) this is the reality of our society and gender discrimination with earrings. No matter how hard that all the women’s

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