Essays on Gender Wage Gap

Increasing Women in STEM Over the years there has been the need to increase the number of women in STEM-related jobs, a move that has intensified because of the need to have a win-win situation (Diekman, et al 2010, p. 1051). That is, the society would benefit from having several STEM...

The Gender Wage Gap is the distinction between the average weekly full-time equivalent wages of women and men, expressed as a percentage of men's income (Miller, 2017). This disparity is a product of several variables that determine the place and role of women in society, namely social, family and stereotypes....

The wage gap between men and women is the disparity in earnings for different occupations that contribute to unequal pay between the sexes (Campos, J. Elizabeth, 2). Although studies suggest that the pay gap for women and men has decreased over the past decade, change has been slow, growing by...