Women in Management

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This paper discusses the gender discrimination that is often evident in companies. It specifically looks at women in management positions and the fact that they often receive unequal pay compared to men in the same positions. The paper discusses the importance for human resource management to attempt to equalize conditions between the genders in order to improve the functioning of the organization.

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"Furthermore, because women are being paid less during their working years, they cannot save as much money for their retirement and will earn smaller pensions than men. Statistics show that fifty percent of all older women receiving a private pension in 1998 got less than $3,486 per year, compared with $7,020 per year for older men. This breaks down to an average loss of more than four-thousand dollars annually for working women's families because of unequal pay. (AFL-CIO)"
"This can no longer be tolerated, and immediate measures must be taken to improve the fairness of the employment and promotion systems prevalent in the corporate world, and in the business world in general, so that women in management, and all women employees will be paid fairly. To do otherwise is not only discriminatory, it costs American businesses millions of dollars per year in lower productivity because many of their women managers and employees are simply not going to be as productive as they could be if they are not paid fairly."

Sample of Sources Used:

• "Equal Pay for Working Families: National and State Data on the Pay Gap and Its Costs." AFL-CIO. Online. Available: http://www.aflcio.org/women/exec99.htm. 9 March 2007.
• Hartmann, Heidi, and Whittaker, Julie. "Stall in Women's Real Wage Growth Slows Progress in Closing the Wage Gap." Briefing Paper, Institute for Women's Policy Research, 1998.
• McCall, Leslie. Complex Inequality: Gender, Race, and Class in the New Economy. New York: Routledge, 2001.

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