Gender and Sexual Inequality

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that gender and sexual inequality in the workplace is a very important aspect of modern American sociology today and asks why this situation exists today. The paper then presents a literature review and a list of various positions in a fictitious banking institution to show these disparities related to sex. The author concludes that the main culprit is the patriarchal system, which has been in existence in the United States since its earliest days.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Literature Review
Methodology
Discussion of Findings
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"Another area of concern is politics, especially as it relates to the status of women in the world of employment. For many years, beginning roughly with the Equal Pay Act of 1963 which mandated "equal pay for men and women doing the same work," employers have utilized special rules regarding appropriate positions and pay for women, such as "formal and informal restrictions on positions, separate male and female sections in help wanted ads, differential pay scales for men and women in the same job (and) pay scales set in accordance with the gender composition of jobs." "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Acker, Joan. (August 2006). "Inequality Regimes: Gender, Class and Race inOrganizations." Gender & Society. Vol. 20 no. 4, 441-464.
• Bertrand, Marianne and Kevin F. Hallock. (October 2001). "The Gender Gap in Top Corporate Jobs." Industrial and Labor Relations Review. Vol. 55 no. 1, 3-20.
• Cotter, David A., Joan M. Hermsen and Reeve Vanneman. (April 4, 2004). "Gender Inequality at Work." Internet. Russell Sage Foundation & the PopulationReference Bureau. Retrieved from http://www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/vanneman/ papers/Cotter_etal.pdf.
• Huffman, Matt L. and Philip N. Cohen. (March 2004). "Occupational Segregationand the Gender Gap in Workplace Authority: National Versus Local Labor Markets."Sociological Forum. Vol. 19 no. 1, 121-147.

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