The impact of the crisis on employment of women has long been underestimated in Czech Republic, but also in whole world. In the early stages of the recession 2008 was thought that the job losses will typically affects mainly male sector. Now, when delayed effects of the crisis and the recent saving measures in the Czech public sector, which primarily affects women, it is clear that the employment crisis has also hit women.
Job losses and pay cuts in the public sector, which represented a typical response of European governments to the economic crisis, significantly threaten gender equality in access to employment. Women represent in the EU almost 70% of employees in the public sector, so any action which falls on number of jobs and their wages in the public sector will always hit stronger women than men. In addition, the public sector in many countries is stabilizating gender equality in employment because it mostly offers better employment opportunities, better working conditions, including paid vacation, a better possibility of combining work and family life and a better wage condi...
Poverty is a significant threat to women’s equality. In Canada, more women live in poverty than men, and women’s experience of poverty can be harsher, and more prolonged. Women are often left to bear more burden of poverty, leading to ‘Feminization of poverty’. Through government policy women inequality has resulted in more women and children being left in poverty with no means of escaping. This paper will identify some key aspects of poverty for Canadian women. First, by identifying what poverty entails for Canadian women, and who is more likely to feel the brunt of it. Secondly the discussion of why women become more susceptible to poverty through government policy and programs. Followed by the effects that poverty on women plays in society. Lastly, how we can reduce these effects through social development and policy.
Thesis: Gender pay gap continues to impact working women in today’s society. Women who have the same education and experience as men deserve to be paid the same. By participating in the organizations to help stop the issue of unequal pay can eventually stop gender discrimination.
To resolve the gender wage gap, the government should consult with employers in federally-regulated sectors to apply a gender-based analysis to the design, development, implementation and evaluation of the policy. The law should clearly outline the systematic discrimination that women face in the workforce. This policy would entail employers to determine whether gender-based disparities exists and reevaluate the current pay system from an equity perspective to ensure and promote pay transparency. The law of ensuring pay equity should first be applied to the public sector, including federal public servants, employees of Crown cooperation and federally regulated companies. After this law has been found to be effective, it is also recommended that private corporations follow the same suit and comply with the pay equity
The participation of females in the labour force is a contemporary issue, which has seen much discussion and debate. This is because females have sought to overcome inequality...
The article The Gender Gap in Wages insights the issue about the wage gap in the early 21st century, observing that is not actual discrimination in the workplace, but rather the type of work and time put into it that changes the wages between male and female workers. June O’Neill gives sufficient statistical data that is focused on work experience and how productivity in the home is a result of the wage gap. Her claim introduces a great amount of statistical data that shows the reader the reasons for a wage gap to exist. She is knowledgeable about the subject and is straight-forward about her point. O’ Neill’s argument is justifiable meanwhile, it can be argued that her neutrality on the wage gap does not give a specific reason as to how this
Victoria. (2006). How Much of Remaining Gender Pay Gap is Result of Discrimination and How Much is Due to Individual Choices? International Journal of Urban Labour and Leaisure , 7 (2).
We have seen in the past forty years significant changes in the structure of the UK economy, including the development of a knowledge economy and a rise in investment of human capital (Thompson, 2004). The accelerated process of globalisation and a shift in social attitudes and government policy has also influenced and shaped the UK labour market. This report will explore the structure of the UK Economy and the implications this has had on the labour market and Human Resources Management. It will argue that inequalities and disadvantage still exist for many demographic groups and will focus on female participation in the workplace through gender, segregation and the gendering of roles. Secondly, this report will focus more specifically on the London Economy and the Borough of Camden in order to assess the extent of disadvantage and inequality for those who fall into the BAME group. Finally, this report will discuss HR interventions and the effect of equality legislation (particularly The Equality Act, 2010) and how these have worked together and separately to eradicate inequalities within the workplace.
The question has been around for many generations, are the two key elements to evaluating a whole economy closely related? Many have studied this topic and all have come out with various results and views as to what they feel defines a relationship between the two. After evaluating the subject, the points will be defined on what may or may not link the two together. Do inflation and unemployment work hand in hand? The results characterize these two as working with one another.
Few agreeable reasons as to why the gap continues, expressed by the European Commission, are either by traditions and stereotypes, “glass ceiling” direct discrimination, or the undervaluing of women’s work ("What Are the Causes?). Several claim that the persistency of gender wage gap is that men and females differ in their choice of profession and educational degrees. Men, traditionally, attain “career-oriented” degrees such as engineering, sciences, and business, in which, usually, they steer towards high-paying jobs, while women seem to wade near social service degrees, and secretarial work causes lower pay.... ... middle of paper ... ...
Today, 46.9% of the employed population in Russia is made up of women. Most women in the work-force (85%) are in public health service. Women in the country are reduced to few jobs and forced to accept low wages. Women make up 74.2% of the unemployed
Gender equality has renovated our societies in the past 50 years (Bain & Co 2013). The conventional view of women, the caregiver, now gained equal working and educational rights to men. In Britain, women comprise almost half of the total workforce (xxxxx). However, the increasing number of female participants does not secure greater economic powers, few women embody top management roles, men and women are being far more equal. Individual, social and organizational burdens set up barriers for women to achieve success. Many countries realized that it is a waste of resources by putting women aside and to enact laws to encourage women enter the workforce. It has seen a positive transformation on balanced gender diversity among different occupations.
According to Vera Nazarian, “A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less. Equality is a given.” For centuries, gender discrimination and inequality issues concerning employment and wages, has been a serious problem that still is in the midst of being solved. Women excel in all fields and play a vital role in economic development of the country, and their contribution is nothing short of their male counterparts. However, there are still several issues and problems that women face today. Sometimes, they are not treated equally in their workplace and are considered as inferior to their male co-workers. Gender discrimination and inequality issues has been a reoccurring issue for years and because of this, it impedes single and/or married women from acquiring certain occupations or levels of occupations as males, receiving equal wages as males, and therefore affects women’s economic class placement in society.
The opportunities available to women in the market are not as diverse as those presented to men. Still, the construct of gender ideology influences how employers undertake economic decisions, and that is why companies still have jobs labelled as “men’s work” and occupations categorized as “women’s work.” Indeed, the pervasiveness of gender differences in labor markets is undeniably true, specifically with respect to salary gap between men and women, occupational gender segregation of men and women, and the challenge that women face in terms of juggling their time and attention between their career and family life. There is no denying that the salary of men is far more than that of women’s. In the Great Britain (and other parts of the globe), there are pieces of evidence which suggest that gendered practices of participation in the labor force still have significant impact on the economic security level that men and women develop over the course of their lives (Warren 606).
Women in today’s society face many adversities. In this essay I will discuss fact versus stereotypical perceptions about the various social and economic problems women must face everyday. I grew up on the Upper East Side in Manhattan mostly comprised of wealthy, socialite families. I attended The Convent of Sacred Heart, also one of the top, private, all girl schools in Manhattan. The majority of the students come from very privileged families and are, more often than not, very spoiled and naïve to the world around them. While I was attending High School, I found it very hard to make friends with some of the students that went to Sacred Heart. I hated the way “rich kids” thought. They always spoke about Welfare and made absurd comments about how it should not exist because the people feeding of their tax dollars were nothing but the bottom-feeders in the world. The people I was surrounded by could never move past the fallacies their parents would talk about. They never realized that many people on welfare struggled. These unfortunate people were not lazy; they weren’t all drug dealers and prostitutes that just kept getting pregnant so that the city would write them a check every month. The only thing they were guilty of was being born a minority and from birth, growing up in some of the worst conditions imaginable.
Unfortunately, there are many Americans out of work in today’s current declining economy. Unemployment can be defined as a person who is out of work involuntary, not by choice. These people are looking jobs and available to start work. Being unemployed can be disheartening and deciding what the next step is can be challenging. Underemployed can be described as being inadequately employed, such as a low-paying job that requires fewer skills than one possess. (Daly, Hobijn, and Kwok 2015) Making ends meet can be difficult for one who has been affected by this economy over the past few years. America still has a high unemployment rate since the decline of the current job market. And many Americans are struggling to establish the skills needed for employment, or the underemployed are force to lower they skill to make a profit. America’s economic status has force the underemployed and unemployed to make ends meet with the current jobs available. And last but not least some have also utilized these difficult times to venture into new discoveries to make life hassle free. So, we wonder is Americans giving up in today’s economy or do they settle for lower end job to establish a steady income to make ends.