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(Why) Are Women Paid Less? Approximately 70% of employer’s expenses consist
of labor costs. An employer that hires only females ...
... This is one of the reasons why women are still to this day paid less than men. ... In
almost every occupational category, women are paid less than men. ...
... First, women on average get paid less than men do. ... In class it was speculated that
the reason women get paid less, is that they are willing to work for less. ...
... world. When women are paid less and they have to help raise a family it
is impossible to pay bills and have a life as well. In the ...
... that was the case. I hadn’t even known about the fact that women were paid
less by a huge amount. That could either say something ...
Submitted by Royiis on May 13, 2008
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Approximately 70% of employer’s expenses consist of labor costs. An employer that hires only females can save 20 cent per dollar compared to one that only hires men. Since a female worker saves the company 20 cents per dollar, she is performing equally to a man – to a lower cost. Since marginal benefit versus marginal cost for women is 20 cents higher than the ratio of men, there should be a clear incentive for hiring women. There has been a major discussion over the passed years about the questions around whether women and minorities are being wage-discriminated on the basis of their sex/ethnicity. This paper will elaborate on the part of women. In the 1950’s one third of the US workforce was made out of women compared to today where two thirds are females. Apparently, this can be seen as a result of more women entering the labor market, whether they are proactively or reactively introduced to the market. According to McDowell & Thom in Principles of Economics (2006), some call this effective competitiveness while others reject it and call it discrimination, so the question arises – are women despite their market representation earning less than males?
In chapter eleven in The Economic of Public Issues, the author explains that some differences in wage are inescapable due to factors of risk. In occupations such as firefighting were males represent 92 percent of labor there needs to be an incentive to risk one’s life. Safe jobs tend to pay less than “dangerous” jobs simply since is to compensate for the risk workers at dangerous jobs take in dying at work. So when trying to explain some of the gaps that are present among the wages between males and females - one has to consider that - in some occupations such as firefighting were the labor is dominated by males, the salary is higher – not because they are males but because of the occupational danger. It is to bring the amount of firefighters to the level demanded that the higher wage is...
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