Sociology 2410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Tokenism, Cara Williams, Glass Ceiling
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Women earn less than men; the wage difference is known as a wage gap. Women, working full time with less than a grade 9 education. Women, working full time with a university education. Men, working full time with less than a grade 9 education. Men, working full time with a university education. There are three main causes for the wage gap. Women"s unequal responsibility for childbearing and child rearing. Women are expected to stay at home with their children. Discrimination occurs when we treat people who are similar in different way or sometimes, when we treat people who are different in similar ways. (kimmel and holler, 2012, p 217) Employers are not allowed to set the requirements for a job based on stereotypical gendered characteristics. This is more subtle, and it is a pervasive mechanism that maintains gender inequality. Women"s and men"s concentration in different occupations, industries, jobs, and levels in work place hierarchies.
