APA 1302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sebastian Giovinco, Christine Sinclair, Sex Segregation
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Men have issues with getting time off for family reasons. Womens have issues with being promoted although they have great reviews and performances. Less qualified men are making the leap to the higher-paying wages . Women paid 79% that of men"s pay wages (21%) The pay rate gap has since decreased from the late 1900"s due to women having proper rights to education and some equality in the work force 59% in 1974. Pay gap is worse for women of colour. Difference of pay between coloured men and women are worse. Education is not a factor between men and women. In most cases, pay gap is higher in higher level of education between men and women http://www. ncbi. nlm. nih. gov/pubmed/7076377. Women and men at work by irene padavic, barbara f. reskin. Women"s and men"s promotion rates depend partly on their race and ethnicity . Two theories that jobs are sex-oriented: women and men prefer different occupations.