SOC362H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Glass Ceiling, Ada Lovelace, Organizational Culture
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Ada lovelace, an english mathematician and writer known for her work on the early. Mechanical general purpose computer described as the world"s first computer programs only legitimate child of lord byron and lady isabella. Interesting for our course because she is a woman a stem occupation. Women earn 13. 3% less an hour than men 87 cents for every dollar earned by men based on hourly wage rates. Women in general don"t work as many hours this is occupation based: the lack of hours a week accumulates and results in a gap. The gap in hourly wages is shrinking (stats canada: 26. 92 an hour women, 31. 05 an hour men. Women getting into jobs and positions that have real authority: women have trouble getting into jobs that matter, how do people get into those jobs, most common way is to get promoted into the position. Shows that women are increasing their share of senior manager positions.
