Gender Wage Gap Effect On Women

What is gender wage gap, and how does it affect men and women in terms of earnings where conflict and functional perspectives comes into play? Gender wage gap is the systematic differences during the Women’s Movement that affected both men and women in terms of wage percentages within the labor force. “As measured by median annual earrings of full-time employees, women earn less than men, a global pattern that holds across all racial and ethnic groups, all levels of education, and as we saw earlier, throughout occupation” (Lindsey, 2011, pg. 291). Another words, on average women earn about seventy -five cents less than a man did working in the same field, and it took her nearly five months just to possibly match that of a man salary over

“After World War II, large number of African-American women moved into government white-collar and clerical jobs and the lowest-level private sector jobs, such as data entry or filing clerks; unlike white women that are steered into traditional female occupations such as teaching, and social work” (Lindsey, 2011, pg. 292). Another, recognized jeopardy was that of sexual orientation, these gay men would receive less pay than other heterosexual men if related to one of these individuals; but lesbians related to heterosexuals their wage jumped. This is because these women seem to hold higher position within a company than that of gay men, and can handle conflicting issues with successful reconciliation compared to that of men. “Lesbian families exhibit role flexibility and even in their child-centered homes biological parent is not given a higher rank over primary caregiver or wage earner” (Stuart, 2007: Hillary and Stuart, 2007 as cited in Lindsey, 2011. Pg.

However, after further review of why this is impacted so highly, it was brought to everyone’s attention that women sometime bring the wage gap to light all on their own; by accepting job’s that are lower on wage scale compared to other position to which they could apply for. “In support of this model, because now women now demonstrate less discontinuous work patterns than in the past, their wages have increased, and the wage gap is decreased” (Penner, 2008: Napari, 2009 as cited in Lindsey, 2011, pg. 293). Because women choose to take jobs that required fewer hours and responsibility, women now had more time during the day to take care of other duties away from work; such as household chores making their pay decrease set in stone. This is where functionalism comes to light, because with the women away from their outside jobs; men are gaining more recognition for being on the job more often than these women. This helping to boost these men’s self-esteem while these men work qualities improve, soon giving them the classification as being the sole wage earners in the home. Though, people feel it’s functionalism that should determine ones pay, actually it how we perceive and apply our abilities as to what are pay consist of; regardless if we are men