Gender Roles In Work Place
Eric Bauer
In today’s blog, I will be
discussing the roles in the work place based on the first hand experience I
have encountered in my life. I will be mainly focusing on the careers of both
my parents, and how their different genders may have had an effect on the way
they were looked at.
To start off, both my parents are
teacher. My mom teaches middle school and my dad high school. Both have their
Masters degree plus 45 hours, and both work for the same school district. Both
have worked for 33 years and have the same exact schedule for hours in a day.
The only difference is my father makes a significant amount more money then my
mother. Now I’m not talking about thousands and thousand dollars worth of
difference, but still a substantial amount nonetheless. According to Ben Weber,
a reporter for business week, “One data point
everyone agrees on is that women and men face huge disparities at the office.
In the U.S., female workers are still paid only 77¢ for every dollar their male
colleagues make” (“Gender Inequality, 2014). This stunning fact proves that
women across the nation are being paid less amount of money, even though they
are performing the same tasks. Personally, I think my mother almost has a more
difficult job then my father because she teaches special education and almost
never makes in home before 6 p.m. Even though she is at school for roughly 10
hours each day, compared to my fathers 9, my dad still gets paid a higher
salary.
However, this
workplace discrepancy is definitely not a new trend in the United States.
According to Infobarrel.com, “In the past, women
did not have a say in anything, they figuratively had no voice. Today
there is much more equality between the genders; however, it still is not
sufficient” (“Gender Inequalities”, 2013). I think the steps that America has
made over the years is great, but still am very curious as to why women have
always been treated not the same as men.
In conclusion, this debate between
equality between genders in the workplace and in everyday society is one that
has been around for many years and doesn’t look like it’s going anywhere.
Anytime you pay one person more then another person based on their sex, the
person getting paid less is going to get very upset. Looking at it from the
point of view of my mother, she is happy that my dad gets paid a lot because
they share everything anyway, however I wonder if she is secretly upset about
this topic.
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