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A 3 page paper discussing the state of gender effects in the workplace and in the workforce. The situation is much better now than in the past, and there is less difference among professional and technical positions. There is also less gender-based difference where both men and women have similar educational backgrounds. Even so, there is still much improvement that can be made. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KShrGenPay.rtf
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line is that the world has not yet reached perfection, but conditions today are immensely better than they were more than forty years ago with the passage of the first
law addressing equal pay for equal work. Likely it was the mythical "Rosie the Riveter" who suffered the first organized sting against gender. After providing factory labor during
World War II as virtually every able-bodied man was engaged in the war, at wars end all of the Rosies of the day were sent home to bake cookies so
that the men could return to their old jobs. The Gendered Workplace Even though there have been great gains for women during the
past century, "Traditional gender ideologies - man as breadwinner, woman as housewife - persist" (Kimmel, n.d.). Even though it is illegal and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission would go
into full-bore mode should it hear of its occurrence, it is still quite likely that interviewers will ask women if they are married; if they have children; if they can
deal with daycare issues; and if they plan to have additional children in the future. Any complaint about such questions results, of course, in a proclamation that the job
has been filled. Kimmel (n.d.) states that today "or a colleague of the other sex who does the same job, for the same
employer, in the same location, on the same shift." This is one way that employers can circumvent equal pay laws without providing grounds for substantiated complaints. The Gendered Workforce
President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law in 1963. At that time, women "earned 59% of the wages men earned
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