UNIT A - Blog 2

The wage gap video peaked my interest the most and I think it's amazing how the video stated that only two percent of women own fortune five hundred companies. Women have so many jobs to choose from and have all these options out there for them yet they are put on such a lower scale when compared to a man in the same position. I don't really understand why it is like this but it seems that males seem to lead a pattern of dominating in the work place and employers feel the need to pay them much more in salary than a woman. The job can be done just as well if not better than a man and I don't think this is equal or fair.

The you tube video on Patriarchy also seemed interesting because it listed alot of detail on women and men and how men seem to dominate the work place and overtake most jobs that are even available to women. This video said that woman only make up 16 of the 100 seats in the Senate and I don't know why this is. I thought about this for a while and thought that maybe they just felt that 84 men were more qualified for the position than woman but now that just seems bazaar and I'm starting to think that they feel men represent the Senate better because they think men are stronger and smarter which seems like a form of sex segregation. I think sex segregation is when you separate men and women in anything such as telling them they can each only play certain sports or in the work place paying a man and a woman differently when they have the same job and same credentials. When it comes to ASU the only time I really see it is maybe with the types of positions women get such as receptionist or front desk person but I'm hardly on campus so I can't really answer this question that well.

Socialization at my job produces gender roles because most of the supervisors are men and there's two out of five supervisors that are women and I also notice that the men make themselves known and are very loud and abrupt when talking to their employees. All I really do is process medical claims at work but in my own position I honestly don’t really see any specific gender roles because we have a lot of male and female processors that work at my job. However, I do find it odd how every company Ive ever worked for had a man that was head of the company. In reference to the report "Moms become breadwinners as job losses hit men" i think sex segregation and the wage gap still persists even when men are becoming unemployed because women are still receiving lower wages and poor benefits compared to other men that are in the same occupation. Even though men are being laid off the women still have to find jobs and work to make a living but this doesn't necessarily increase their wages and even if it did they'd still be on the lower end because men are always making a little bit more than women in the same field.