Labor Market Inequalities

After reviewing this week’s readings and videos, identify an inequality within the labor market and conduct additional research by reading at least two scholarly articles on a topic of interest. Expand your consideration of inequalities beyond the traditional narrative heard throughout the media. Feel free to explore inequalities beyond those experienced by women, minorities, and immigrants if you find enough research to support a substantive discussion.

To provide context for an in-depth discussion, compose the following for the topic you selected:

· an historical background

· an overview of current research

· critiques of at least two current policies created to negate the inequality

Be sure to only share substantiated ideas using evidence from appropriate sources rather than relying on opinion

Labor Market Inequalities

After reviewing this week’s readings and videos, identify an inequality within the labor market and conduct additional research by reading at least two scholarly articles on a topic of interest. Expand your consideration of inequalities beyond the traditional narrative heard throughout the media. Feel free to explore inequalities beyond those experienced by women, minorities, and immigrants if you find enough research to support a substantive discussion.

To provide context for an in-depth discussion, compose the following for the topic you selected:

· an historical background

· an overview of current research

· critiques of at least two current policies created to negate the inequality

Be sure to only share substantiated ideas using evidence from appropriate sources rather than relying on opinion

 NOTES from the Professor:

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Diversity in the Workplace: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation

One with our modern notion of work pertains to how we define work. Generally, the definitional bias is toward paid employment outside the home. By that definition, a great majority of the world’s work goes unrecognized. Schools rely heavily on volunteers, yet that is not paid and thus, not considered to be work. Domestic labor, primarily performed by women, is often not categorized as work because it is often unpaid. When the “what do you do” question comes up, too many women in our society respond by stating “I’m just a housewife or a mom.” Such a response clearly shows that these women have bought into the notion that work implies receiving a wage and it is somehow not what our culture defines as work. Chinese communist leader Mao Tse-Tung used the phrase “women hold up half the sky” to promote the equality of women as part of the overall vision of human equality under Chinese communism. Despite this belief, which has been globally adopted, women are not rewarded or acknowledged for most of the work they do. “Across countries, women make up a disproportionate share of the illiterate, the poor, the displaced, the elderly, the underpaid, the underemployed, and the underrepresented” (Henderson & Jeydel, 2007, p. i

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Benet, W. J. (2013). Managing the polarities of democracy: A theoretical framework for positive social change. Journal of Social Change, 5(1), 26–39. doi: 10.5590/JOSC.2013.05.1.03 Retrieved from http://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1033&context=jsc

The New Yorker. (2014, July 22). Malcom Gladwell on income inequality – The New Yorker Festival (Full) – The New Yorker [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/embed/iKvFlSedpNI (Links to an external site.)

Levknecht, L. (2013, January 8). Using polarity thinking to achieve sustainable positive outcomes. Retrieved from http://www.elsevier.com/connect/using-polarity-thinking-to-achieve-sustainable-positive-outcomes

Young, M. C. (2010). Gender differences in precarious work settings. Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 65(1), 74-97.

Recommended References

DeJesus, V., (2017, September 27). How to use Bureau Labor of Statistics website. [Video file]. Retrieved fromHow to use Bureau Labor of Statistics website (Links to an external site.)

Henderson, S., & Jeydel, A. S. (2007). Participation and protest: Women and politics in a global world. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Misra, J., & Strader, E. (2013). Gender pay equity in advanced countries: The role of parenthood and policies. Journal Of International Affairs, 67(1), 27-41.