Management 13th Edition by John Schermerhorn,Daniel Bachrach

Exercise 12

MAKE DATA YOUR FRIEND
75% of women 18-32 believe more must be done to ensure workplace equality.
Social Attitudes Shift on Women at Work, but Concerns for Equality Persist

S ocial attitudes toward women at work are shifting in a positive direction. But polls and surveys show that a gender wage gap and bias toward women remains. For example:
More women than men now receive college degrees and comprise almost half the workforce.
Young women earn 93 cents per dollar earned by young men, while women in general earn 76.5 cents per dollar earned by men, a figure that is actually up slightly from 71.6 cents in 1991.
Among full-time workers, women earn 79 cents per dollar earned by men.
The percent of women who believe they can't have a career and family without sacrifices to each fell from 78% in 1997 to 66% in 2013, while 64% of men now say women can't "have it all."
35% of women report experiencing some form of discrimination at work versus 15% of women aged 18-32.
84% of women versus 63% of men believe women are paid less than men for the same work.
75% of women between18-32 believe more must be done to ensure workplace equality.
WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS
What reasons-other than discrimination-can you give for the lingering wage gap between women and men Do these explanations make the gap more justifiable, or not What are the implications of this wage gap for the economy, for families, for businesses, and communities How about the belief that women can't have it all-career and family, without making sacrifices Is this your belief What are the implications for society at large as well as for women and their families If more needs to be done to create workplace equality, what steps should next be taken-by government, by employers, and by educators Have you seen examples of age, racial- or gender-based imbalance in compensation What do you think drives any such gaps