Data from 2005 states that women earn $.77 to every dollar a man earns.* This statistic should be alarming because the majority of women are employed in the lowest paying professions. Why are women so reluctant to choose a higher paying career?
Women's percentage of industry employment,
selected industries, 2007
Percent women
Construction 9.4
Mining 13.8
Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting 23.4
Transportation and utilities 24.6
Manufacturing 30.0
Total, all industries 46.4
Leisure and hospitality 51.4
Other services 52.0
Financial activities 55.4
Education and health services 74.7
*data recieved from the bureau of labor statistics
According to Wikipedia “gender is the wide set of characteristics that are seen to distinguish between male and female."Gender and sex differ because sex is the physical conditions that make a male a male and a woman a woman and gender is a socially constructed word. Gender is an ever changing definition as society changes, their value, belief, and ideals construct as to what gender is today.
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