In: Economics
Identify a specific example of inequality that you have heard about that impacts a group based on their race, class, sex, or other identities. Where have you heard about that issue? What do you know about it? What are you curious about in regard to it? Where/how might you (hypothetically) learn more about it?
The most prevalent inequality in many countries is gender inequality . Gender based wage gap or different pay for identical work is very common in many countries . Due to difference in perception of work ability this wage gap exists . Women are sometimes considered less productive or less efficient . The skills and education level of women are undermined . This issue mainly occurs due to difference in educational opportunities , prevalent social ideas , bias towards a particular gender , etc .
Inability to negotiate , motherhood , industry segregation , discrimination based on gender all leads to this gap . Also in some developing countries male education is given more importance at root level than education of the female child . This leads to basic difference in skills .
We can learn more about this wage gap from various data on gender wages for similar job roles . Distribution of high tech jobs among males and females also indicate such inequality .