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A 3 page exploration of the persistant problem of pay differences for men verses women who are performing the same jobs. This paper explains this problem from the perspective of the so-called radical feminist approach as well as from a structural/functionalist approach. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPwmnPay.rtf
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Although lessening in recent years, wage disparities between males and females are still very much a reality. en are
paid more than women in many cases even when the job duties are identical! According to Diesing (2004), women are compensated an average of thirty percent less than men
performing the same job. The situation becomes even more frustrating when we realize that there are significant differences in pay in jobs that are typically occupied by all females
verses those that are occupied by all males. These differences can be up to fifty percent lower for all-female jobs than that for comparable all-male jobs (Cohen and Huffman
2003). Promotions are few for women and female input into management decisions almost non-existent. Even when women do promote to become managers they are commonly paid less than
male managers doing the same job. The reasons for these disparities obviously extend well back into history and to the patriarchal society we have yet to completely abandon.
Acquiring an understanding of exactly how the discrepancies which are so apparent between mens and womens pay in the workplace can be aided both
from an employment of the so-called radical feminist approach and an employment of the structural/functionalist approach first proposed by Radcliff-Brown and Evans-Pritchard for use in analyzing traditional societies. From
a structural/functionalist approach we recognize that the phenomenal increase in technology which this country has experienced over the latter half of the twentieth century has resulted in an employee base
which is skewed considerably in terms of their responsibilities and skills. Because of technological evolution there has been an understandable demand for fewer low-end workers while at the same
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