Discussion-Gender Wage Gap and Sex Segregation

Discussion-Gender Wage Gap and Sex Segregation

Topic:
Investigate the gender wage gap and sex segregation. Information for the United States is available at the following website: bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.pdf. Pick some occupations you are interested in and look up the percent female in that occupation, and then calculate the gender wage gap. What is surprising about this information? What theories might you develop about which occupations tend to be more segregated than others and which have a larger gender wage gaps?

Papers should be about 4-6 pages in length. .Address the following points:
1. How do the readings selected compare and contrast from the required readings on the topic?
2. What did you learn that was new? What had you never considered before? How might the issues you studied on women relate to other oppressed populations?
3. How much evidence was provided to support material presented?
4. What did you read about that you do not agree with? What is your disagreement based on? (your values, opinions, statistics)
5. How might you use what you learned about to promote social and economic justice in the social work profession? How compatible were the values presented with the values of the social work profession?

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