Gender Inequality

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English Essay

1 May 2010

Gender Inequality in the Work Place

The so-called battle between the sexes has been ongoing since time immemorial . In the early times and in most cultures , women have been regarded as the inferior sex , the submissive one , the one tasked to do household chores , and the one who did not need to have an education because she will only look after the kids and the house anyway . But things have changed overtime and these situations are no longer true -- at least for the

most part . Nevertheless , there are still some instances where gender inequality exists , and one typical example of such situation is in the workplace

Despite the generally open reception to both men and women in the employment sector , there continues to exist an undercurrent of preference for men , especially in the US . As the reading cites : the greater a job 's income and prestige , the more likely it is that the position will be held by a male (Lecture : Sex Gender . This finding is similar to the results of a study in Clayman Institute which states that : there was a 2 :1 bias towards hiring a male over a female with identical applications for faculty positions (Soto , par . 2 These findings indicate that despite the current so-called `equal opportunities ' for both sexes , the ideal status where women are given equal chances against men is still somehow ignored and disregarded

Meanwhile , women 's surge into the labor force has taken place in...