READING TASK 4 : Week (?)

Referring to the article : Gender Inequality in the Workforce

In the light of the author's views that gender inequality in the workforce is imaginary and founded on premises of medieval history, I find that the reason why we still think that men and women are unequally treated in our societal workforce is because we have always viewed them as such. It is enlightening to read that gender inequality in the workforce does not seem as serious as people might view it to be, because I believe, like many others do, that being egalitarian is the way to go.

The author brought up many interesting points worthy of note, such as the 'glass ceiling' that women consider a stumbling block in their professional career. Such an example is an epitome of being too pessimistic about prejudicial treatment in the workforce. I concur with the author's view that assertions of women being treated unequally in the workforce are exaggerated. We should, as teenagers, not be too quick to make a judgement about prejudicial treatment in the workforce simply because we have not experienced a working life.

Elizabeth Fox Genovese also articulated her views that "the differences between paychecks have more to do with the differences between social classes--and, increasingly, the education that, more than anything else today, determines class membership--than with the differences between the sexes. Within classes, differences between men and women persist, although they are steadily lessening. And, in the end, the best explanation for them remains women's ability to bear children--the inequality that no amount of social policy can erase." A good point to note, don't you think?