The Gendered Wage Gap In America

Young girls in America are never sat down by their parents and told that when they grow up that they will be discriminated against in their workplace. They are never told that even if they follow their dreams and reach their goals that they will be paid less then their male co-workers. The gendered wage gap is very real and prevalent in America. The American workplace has always been a site of “homosocial reproduction”, a …

…families, including their children. Once we figure out how to remedy all the gender problems in the workplace, we can start with the rest of societies issues. American society is based on money therefore this is a very important issue to deal with. Most would agree that a combination of the persistence of traditional gender ideologies and changes in economic and social realities make today's workplace an ideal arena for working out gender issues (Kimmel177).