Project 1

Liza Zeh

Dr.McGinnis

English 1102

February 2, 2021

Gender Inequality in the United States

1. Purpose:

The topic I choose for this project is, gender inequality in the United states.I chose this topic, because women all over the US even in the 21st century experience gender inequality everywhere. This topic intrigued me because people always assume since our nation has progressed so much in the years, so a topic this obscure would have been one of the first things to be figured out. Gender inequality should not exist because it is belittling to women. I think I will discover in my research that the reason why no one really wants to talk about a subject this large is, because they don't want to face the facts; they are scared of what they will discover. Gender inequality in the US fits in my group's overall idea because the overall idea is: how gender inequality in the US differs from other countries in the world (each one of my group members tackles a different country).

2. Problems to be investigates:

• Why do men feel superior to women in the workplace?

• Why are women getting paid less than men that are in the same position?

• How has the Me Too movement affected women in the past year?

• Why do men have more access to a higher education than women?

• What are major corporations doing to help women in the workplace (sexual assault alligations, and the wage gaps)?

• Why did corporations cover up sexual assault/harassment allegation made by women that happend in the work place?

The key issue I would like to discover is why gender inequality is still such a big topic now. Women have been fighting for a change for centuries,so why are people just now trying to help. I’d also like to uncover the root of why women are being discriminate against in the work just based of the their sex.

3. Methods of research:

The methods of research I plan on using for my paper are online articles published by a reliable source on Google Scholar. I also plan on using E-books, Youtube videos, websites, and articles from journals. These methods of research will be scholarly sources, and reliable.

• Equitable growth. “Factsheet: Gender Wage Inequality in the United States and What to Do about It.” Equitable Growth, 24 Apr. 2019, equitablegrowth.org/factsheet-gender-wage-inequality-in-the-united-states-and-what-to-do-about-it/.

• Lee, Bun-Hee. “#Me Too Movement; It Is Time That We All Act and Participate in Transformation.” Psychiatry Investigation, Korean Neuropsychiatric Association, 16 May 2018, www.psychiatryinvestigation.org/journal/view.php?year=2018&vol=15&spage=433.

• Delmore, Erin. “'We Didn't Back down': How Women's Basketball Players Scored Major Wins for Equal Pay.” NBCNews.com, NBCUniversal News Group, 11 Feb. 2020, www.nbcnews.com/know-your-value/feature/we-didn-t-back-down-how-women-s-basketball-players-ncna1131561.

• Jacobs, Jerry A. “Gender Inequality and Higher Education.” Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 22, 1996, pp. 153–185. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2083428. Accessed 31 Jan. 2021.

• Beggs, John J. “The Institutional Environment: Implications for Race and Gender Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market.” American Sociological Review, vol. 60, no. 4, 1995, pp. 612–633. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2096297. Accessed 31 Jan. 2021.

• “Everything You Need to Know about Pushing for Equal Pay.” UN Women, 14 Sept. 2020, www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2020/9/explainer-everything-you-need-to-know-about-equal-pay.

• Wilson, Julie. “5 Top Issues Fueling Gender Inequality in the Workplace.” As You Sow, As You Sow, 20 Dec. 2019, www.asyousow.org/blog/gender-equality-workplace-issues.

• McGregor, Jena. “New Database Aims to Expose Companies That Make Employees Arbitrate Sexual Harassment Claims.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 27 Feb. 2020, www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/02/27/new-database-reveals-which-companies-prevent-employees-filing-sexual-harassment-lawsuits/.

• Sasso, Anthony T. Lo, and W. Pete Welch. “The $16,819 Pay Gap For Newly Trained Physicians: The Unexplained Trend Of Men Earning More Than Women: Health Affairs Journal.” Health Affairs, 1 Feb. 2011, www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0597.

• Pedace, Roberto. “Exploring the Data on Hollywood's Gender Pay Gap.” The Conversation, 20 Dec. 2019, theconversation.com/exploring-the-data-on-hollywoods-gender-pay-gap-127414.

• Alaggia, Ramona, and Susan Wang. “‘I Never Told Anyone until the #Metoo Movement’: What Can We Learn from Sexual Abuse and Sexual Assault Disclosures Made through Social Media?” Child Abuse & Neglect, Pergamon, 19 Mar. 2020, www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0145213419304880.

• Hussain, Iman, et al. (Wage and Gender Discrimination): An Analysis of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team. 2020, worldatwork.org/journal/2020/q1/pdfs/f2.pdf.

4. Survey Ideas

Questions related to our group theme:

1. What country has the best gender equality

   • a. Iceland

   • b. Norway

   • c. Pakistan

   • d. The United states

2. What country has the worst gender equality

   • a. Sri lanka

   • b. South korea

   • c. United States

   • d. United Arab Empire

3. What is gender inequality

   • a. social process by which men and women are not treated as equals

   • b. Women and men are treated equally

4. Have you ever been a victim of gender inequality

   • True

   • False

5. What age group where you when you were a victim of gender inequality \

   • 20-30s

   • 40s-50s

   • 60+

Questions for my individual topic:

• The ratio of percentage of men and women in the workplace?

  • a. 66% men and 55% women

  • b. 58% men and 42% women

  • c.60% men and 40% women

• Do you think men and women should be treated equally

  • Yes

  • No

• Do you think men and women have the same rights in the United states

  • Yes

  • No

• Do you think the US is doing something about gender inequality

  • a. Yes

  • b. Yes, but very little

  • c. No

  • d. The government knows about it, but has yet to do anything

• Have you every witness someone getting sexual harassed in the workplace

  • a. Yes, but i didn't want to report it because it was afraid of losing my job

  • b. Yes i reported it, but i lost my job due to reporting it

  • c. No, but i do i will report it

  • d. No, and if i do i wont report it because i'm afraid i will lose my job

• If you were discriminated against where was it

  • a. Workplace

  • b. School

  • c. Sports

  • d. Other

  • c. No i have not experienced it

• Have you ever experienced gender inequality in the medical field

  • a. Yes, as a doctor

  • b. Yes, as a patient

  • c. No

• Do you think that you are getting paid equally as opposite sex couterpart

  • a. No, i think he/she is getting paid more than me because of my sex

  • b. Yes, because where i work there is no gender inequality

• Have you ever been a victim of gender inequality, sexual harassment, and/or aussault

  • a. Yes, but I didn’t report it because i was afraid of losing my job

  • b. Yes, I reported it and nothing happened

  • c. Yes, I reported it and he/she was fired for what they did

  • d. No

• Have you ever been not been given a promotion at work because of your sex

  • a. Yes, I work in a male dominated place and they think little of women

  • b. Yes, for other reasons

  • c. No

5. Annotated Bibliography portion:

• • Lee, Bun-Hee. “#Me Too Movement; It Is Time That We All Act and Participate in Transformation.” Psychiatry Investigation, Korean Neuropsychiatric Association, 16 May 2018, www.psychiatryinvestigation.org/journal/view.php?year=2018&vol=15&spage=433.

  • Summary: Lee’s article, “#Me Too Movement; It Is Time That We All Act and Participate in Transformation” talks about what the Me Too movement is. She defines it as, “the Me Too movement (or #Me Too) is a movement against sexual harassment and assault”(pg.1). She focuses the article mainly on how the Me Too movement has affected the Medical world of today. Her findings show that, “30% of women and 4% of men among U.S. academic medical faculty members reported experiencing sexual harassment” (pg.1). The movement has led her to help stop sexual harassment and assault at her job. She explains how men have shown an interest in separating the two sexes, because they do not when or if they have crossed a boundary. Currently many men feel uncomfortable being near a woman because they do not know what is right or wrong. She also helps her readers understand why victims wait some time to come forward with their stories. She believe that the movement has shifted the norm surrounding sexual harassment, meaning that if someone comes forward that their story won’t just be handled, it will be investigated properly. The victims won’t be hushed anymore, those times are over thanks to the Me Too movement.

  • Asses: This article will be very useful to my paper, because it covers the topic that I would like to include. The writers and correspondents are well educated, some even with PhDs. If you continued and scrolled down to the bottom the author listed their references. I can trust this information for my article, and it was all informational on a very interesting topic.

  • Reflect: Yes, I will be using this source for my project, it is scholarly and will be very useful. It covers my topic and it even adds statistics to help support their article. For some reason I guess I just never really thought that sexual harassment could happen in the medical field, but this articel has made rethink it. You never know how deep an issue can grow, so I am glad I got to read this article.

• Hussain, Iman, et al. Wage and Gender Discrimination: An Analysis of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team. 2020, worldatwork.org/journal/2020/q1/pdfs/f2.pdf.

  • Summary: the authors of this article take a deep dive in the lawsuit the United States Women's National Soccer team (USWNT) against the U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF). The women argued that the USSF was not paying them as much as their male counterparts, and gender discrimation. The article states, “Not only are the Women three-time World Cup champions, they are also four-time Olympic Gold medal- ists and three-time recipients of the U.S. Olympic Committee’s Team of the Year award. The 2015 World Cup final achieved 25.4 million viewers and became the most watched soccer game in American television history (Strauss 2019)”(15). The Women are more qualified and are favored more by the american people, yet they are getting paid significantly less. The article goes into how much more the men make per game and it is astonishing. The USSF denied the pay inequities, and said that is the page gap was based off other factors other than sex. When they took it to court the case was ruled in favor of the women, gaining them a huge success.

  • Asses: This article is very informative with lots of details. It ties right into my topic and it's an article I can trust. Two out of three of the authors have PhDs the other author has an MBA, and they all graduated from state universities. They also have a couple pages of citations and references that they used.

  • Reflect: Yes, I will end up using this article for my project because it covers everything that it needs to for my topic. It is very scholarly, which means that I can trust the information it has provided. They included graphs and a lot of information about the lawsuit and pay gaps between men and the women players. It made me really think that a company can be so blind that they deny the pay gap lawsuit even though there was clear evidence saying the men players get paid more.

• Jacobs, Jerry A. “Gender Inequality and Higher Education.” Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 22, 1996, pp. 153–185. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2083428. Accessed 1 Feb. 2021.

  • Summary: In this article Jacobs talks about questions regarding gender inequality and higher education. She first talks about how, “women were disadvantaged in access to elite schools” (155). Although the number of women representing at college are 53.3%, more women apparently get turned away from top tier elite school because of their sex. Jacobs goes on to say, “Women fare relatively well in the area of access, less well in terms of the college experience, and are particularly disadvantaged with respect to the outcomes of schooling”(175). In the rest of her article she talks about how women are at a disadvantage when they leave college because of the gender inequality in pay wages. When women graduate they are more likely to get paid less than a man in the same position.

  • Access: This source is useful for my paper, because it covers a topic I am not that informed about. It is teaching me and the reader at the same time about the gender inequalities in the education system. It is a source I can trust because it was referenced by Google Scholar. The author also gives pages of citations at the end of the article.

  • Reflect: I will definitely use this in my project, because it helps strengthen my argument and I can trust the information. The author's research is supported by facts and statistics. It covers my topic while also teaching me new things about my topic.

• “Everything You Need to Know about Pushing for Equal Pay.” UN Women, 14 Sept. 2020, www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2020/9/explainer-everything-you-need-to-know-about-equal-pay.

  • Summary: In this article many important women that sit in the United Nations speak on equal pay for women. Chidi King Director of the Equality Department of the International Trade Union Confederation, and a member of UN Women and ILO’s Equal Pay Champions initiative talks about, “how a job in the male dominated construction field a women would get paid significantly less, because it is a male dominated job”. The article also goes on to talk about how, “Equal pay matters because it is a glaring injustice and subjects millions of women and families to lives of entrenched poverty and opportunity gaps”. The authors also talk about how gender inequality is harder for women of color, “In the United States, Black women earn only 62 cents, Native women 57 cents, and Latinas 54 cents for every one dollar that white men earn”. This article covers many different types of inequalities women go through.

  • Access: this source is very helpful to my paper, because it helps strengthen my argument. Not only does this topic cover gender inequalities it breaks down that and talks about how women of color are at an even more disadvantage. This topic is very scholarly and I can trust the factual information that comes from it. At the end of the article it gives its references and citation.

  • Reflect: Yes, I will be using this article for my paper, because the information that was covered is extremely relevant to my paper. This made me rethink how deep gender inequality stems. Not only is there gender inequality worse for women it is actually worse for women of color. Gender inequality is something that needs to change and it needs to do so fast. This article wasn't a normal article since it was written by women of the United Nations, but I think that is what makes the article trustworthy.

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