dual labor market

Even with all the gains women have made on the job market, they will always be a step behind there fellow male coworkers. Women have made significant gains with their numbers in the workforce, but they still fall behind in the their average wages made. There a many major factors for this, but they are all brought about by the dual labor market. Women cannot compete with men on the job market because they do …

…or be a nurse, while men are told they need to be aggressive and smart and should be a lawyer or a doctor. All in all, women will continue to stay a step behind men when it comes to wages and job status until the dual labor market is eliminated. Unfortunately there are too many underlying factors that have been cemented into our societies thinking for that to happen any time in the near future.