This document discusses gender inequality in the workplace, education, and income. It notes that women are more likely to hold interactive jobs like teaching while men dominate fields like engineering. Women on average value flexibility and social purpose over salary. Though more women now graduate from post-secondary education, they still earn less than men. The feminist perspective aims to ensure equal opportunities and pay. Possible solutions include more flexible work schedules, improved parental leave, and encouraging gender diversity in career paths.

1. Gender
Inequality
Gabrielle Clayson & Allison Boylan

2. What is Gender
Inequality?
• The difference in the status, power and
prestige women and men have in groups and
societies
• Unequal treatment or perceptions of an
individual based on their gender

3. Overview
• How does gender inequality affect women in:
1. Workplace
2. Education
3. Income
• What does the feminist perspective have to say on this
topic?
• Possible solutions to promote equality between men and
women in the work/education environment

4. Women in the Workplace
Women are more likely to have interactive and people
oriented jobs such as teachers, social workers, nurses and
receptionists where men are more likely to work as engineers
and in the trades

5. Women in the Workplace
• A study showed that women value flexibility, autonomy,
and a job with a social purpose.
• Women tend to value social interaction as more important
than salary
• Women face the choice of marrying below their
educational level or not marrying at all
• Some women choose to work part time or stay at home
when their children are young.

6. Education Levels
• A study shows that the average ratio of men to women
graduating from post secondary school are 93 men to 100
women
• 64.8% of females have post secondary education while
63.4% of males have post secondary education
• In 2008 women accounted for three out of four graduates
in education and health sciences programs

7. Level of Income
• In 2009 young women aged 25-29 with full
time work earned 85 cents for every dollar
males made.
• In comparison in 2013 women made 72 cents
for every dollar males made.

8. Level of Income
• 72% of Canadian part time workers are
females which affects their annual income
earnings
• Male graduates from business and
management programs on average earn $46,
500 compared to $41, 700 for women

9. Feminist Perspective
• Liberal feminists focus on ensuring equal pay in
the workforce, family-work balance and child
labour concerns
• Feminists observe that the world bases our
presumptions on what women are supposed to do
rather than what women want to do
• For a lot of women working is not a choice but
rather a necessity – just like for men
• We are also to be aware of how gender roles in the
workplace can affect men. One problem men tend
to face is getting accused if they choose to stay at
home with their kids – to the world this is not
“proper masculinity.”

10. Solutions for the Workplace
• Make jobs more enticing so more women work in the
trades and as engineers
• More flexible work schedules so women don’t feel
pressured to find childcare services for their children or
having to quit their job
• Improved parental leave for both men and women

11. Solutions for Education
• High school programs that encourage young men to
pursue a post secondary education
• A support team that will help men succeed in their post
secondary education
• Don’t label young people when they are in school; this is
when they are most vulnerable and will hold that label for
a very long time

12. Solutions for Income
• If men and women have the same education level and
same job title they should be receiving equal pay
• Allow women to have the same opportunity as men in the
workplace; they should have chance to succeed just as
much as men

13. Conclusion
• Women are still not treated the same as men in the work
place
• Even though women have the same job title as men their
annual earnings are not equal
• Women feel pressured in deciding how to make both their
jobs and family a priority
• We need to find a way for more women to get jobs in the
trades and men to work in more interactive and people
oriented jobs

14. References
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(2016). Understanding social problems (5th Canadian
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26, 2013). The Canadian Press. Retrieved from
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/more-women-than-men-have-
post-secondary-education-1.1358656

15. References
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