[Answered] Equal work and pay opportunity for women
Description
This assignment is designed, within the context of social work education, to create an opportunity for students to provide ideas, visibility, and “voice” toward achieving constructive solutions/outcomes as they prepare to work with diverse groups for social and economic justice. This paper should be 12 pages in length.
- Identify and discuss in writing a real world issue of disparity among women (based on class, gender, race, ethnic group, region, sexual orientation, disability, age or religion) which represents persistence in differential treatment based on these traits, maintenance of systems of power and privilege that prevent equal access to needed resources. Make a thorough and comprehensive discussion
.·Identify collaborative partnerships that can strategically act together in making contributions toward advancing inclusion and equity of treatment.
- Identify policies that emphasize empowerment of women (individuals, families, communities) and will lead to impeding unequal outcomes in income, employment, education, health, and housing for women.·Develop a bibliography of books, journal articles, useful websites and links in APA format that support your study.
Solution
One of the issues affecting women worldwide is equal work and equal pay opportunity for women, resulting in a gender pay gap. Studies indicate that women are consistently paid 54% for every dollar paid to men, even though millions of women have joined the workforce over the past decades. Similarly, a study conducted by Sardelis, Oester, and Liboiron (2017), on the strategies to minimize gender inequality found out that while women occupy the more significant part of the workforce, they tend to occupy only 20% of the most lucrative disciplines such as science, engineering, and technology. The unequal work and unequal pay opportunities for women are attributed to numerous factors…………………Purchase the link to access the full answer @$13
