This document discusses gender roles and stereotyping in the workplace. It defines gender roles and examines how gender stereotyping can affect the types of jobs men and women obtain. It then explores specific issues like pay differences between men and women doing the same jobs, the glass ceiling that prevents women from achieving high-level positions, and challenges women face regarding their image and balancing work and family roles. Statistics are provided showing women still earn less than men on average and are underrepresented in corporate leadership positions.

2. Gender Roles…?
0 Definition of gender roles
0 Gender roles with relation to jobs – how does gender
stereotyping affect the jobs either sex can obtain?

3. Game Reveal

4. http://www.youtube.com/wa
tch?v=QS2UsjBufqE

6. Role in the Workplace
0 Stereotyping the office is multifaceted.
• Pay differences
• Glass Ceiling
• Image

7. Last year's tax returns may already be
signed, sealed and delivered, but April
20, 2010 is the day the average American
woman will finally finish earning her
2009 salary — at least, the one she
would have received if she were a man.
-TIME Magazine

8. Pay Differences
Statistics show that women receive a lower pay for
the same job description, when compared to men.
0 Excuses:
• Work less hours
• Not the same level of education
• Have to take care of children
• Different jobs

9. Pay Differences
0 Average woman makes 78 cents to every dollar
earned by a male.
0 Women work two-thirds of the world’s working hours
but earn only one-tenth of the world’s income
0 Hours worked per week versus percentage of male
coworkers pay:
• 41 to 44 hours per week - 84.6%
• >60 hours per week - 78.3%

12. Glass Ceiling
0 Limit placed on the ascension of women “up the
corporate ladder”
0 Prevents women from achieving high status job
positions

13. While women make up 50%
of the work force, only…
0 12 Fortune 500 companies have women CEOs
0 25 Fortune 1000 companies have womenCEOs
0 In 2009, 15.7% of corporate officers in Fortune 500
companies were women!
• Down from 16.4% in 2006

14. Women’s Image in the
Workplace – A balancing Act
0 Types of dress
• Avoiding the focus on wardrobe – is this realistic?
0 Personality
0 Having a family
• Motherhood – possible interference?

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IT”

16. Previous solutions… Have
they worked?