Glass Ceiling Informative Speech

Corning Glass Works v. Brennan, 417 U.S. 188 (1974) was a gender equality case brought before the Supreme Court on March 25, 1974 (Insidegov.com). It was based on whether or not Corning Glass Works violated the Equal Pay Act by paying its male night shift workers substantially higher wages than its female day shift workers. I found this case interesting because gender equality and the right to equal pay is still an important issue in the business world today. In recent years, the income disparity between men and women has gained more attention, causing researchers to study why it exists. There has also been a push in politics to update and strengthen the Equal Pay Act. Although recent attempts by the federal government,

Gender equality: the pinnacle concept that American society is not-so desperately trying to achieve. Many Americans have convinced themselves that gender equality was remedied by the Nineteenth Amendment and the Second Feminist Movement, and have not considered the thousands of steps that are left on the journey. In recent years, a matter of public interest has been the gender wage gap, stating that women are earning significantly less money than men for doing an equivalent amount of work. Critics of the effort to “break the glass ceiling” claim that a pay gap does not exist, and that if it does, it is because women either do not work as hard, have to tend to their families, or hold lower paying jobs. However, the gender pay gap has been proven to exist in a variety of different forms,

“Integration and Desegregation”, written by Ralph Wiley addresses issues with integration and how helpful it could be to desegregate areas in the community to benefit all of the citizens and not just one group.”Affirmative Action”, written by Shelby Steele addresses the issue of people using a tool that is meant to help as a reason to be lazy. Both of the authors in the passages use extreme negatives and positive examples to get their points across to their audience, resulting in the reader having to think about what the author is really saying.

Current career paths to executive ranks within American public schools reveal that all roads can lead to the superintendency. The myriad of pathways has attracted a diverse candidate pool for many of our nation’s public schools. The most recent decennial study of the superintendency by American Association of School Administrators (Kowalski et al., 2010) report that superintendent career paths remain similar over the past three decades and identify three primary career paths to the office. Forty-nine percent of superintendents matriculated from being a classroom teacher to assistant principal or principal and then to a central office administrative position before becoming a Superintendent. The second pathway indicated that 31 percent of

The business world during the 1990s was forty-seven percent female, and fifty-three percent male (Mulligan). Surprisingly, however, the percent of women entering the workplace has stalled. In the early 2000’s the percent of women that worked peaked at seventy-seven percent, and has yet to change from that, still, this is a huge increase compared to the amount of working women in the early 1900s.

Olsson shows how difficult it is to get promoted in Walmart, which contributes to her argument that Walmart does not treat their employees as they should. In addition, it shows why employees can’t have better lives because they make minimum wages for a long period, and work extra hours without getting paid for it. Olsson suggests, “he asked for a promotion, but three months later he was still doing the extra work for no extra pay” (6). Olsson’s point is that Walmart employees can’t get promoted even when they try, instead Walmart is using them and make them work harder. Increasingly during her article Olsson makes it clear that Walmart exploits their employees. Furthermore, Olsson presents us with another alarming fact that show that not only it is almost impossible to get promoted in Walmart, it is more difficult to get promoted if the employee is a female. According to Olsson, “Wal-Mart today has the same percentage of women in management that the average company had in 1975” (5). In other words, the percentage of women in management did not change from 1975, when women weren’t equal in a work atmosphere as they today. Olsson provides statistic that improves her argument and reveals Walmart unfairness.

In today’s society despite of the progress women have reached there are still barriers that are placed in society. According to author “Thirty-four percent of all families headed by women are poor: the rates are higher for African American women, Latinas and Native American women, and the rate has been increasing” (Andersen, 2015, p. 3). The previous statistics reveal that even living in a society were “equality for both genders” is usually advocated, women’s are still suffering the biggest discrimination in the workplace and in society. Even professional women working full time are being paid less than males. Moreover, professional women are continuously suffering from barriers such as the glass ceiling effect this clearly affect women from raising to upper level positions.

This study was also about income inequality. Again, it was conducted as a survey where 55,000 people from 40 countries were asked to estimate how much corporate CEOs and unskilled workers earned. Then they asked people how much CEOs and workers should earn. The findings were that most Americans estimated that the CEO-to-worker pay-ratio was 30-to-1, and that ideally, it’d be 7-to-1. In actuality, 354-to-1 is the actual ratio of CEO-to worker pay. Fifty years ago, it was 20-to-1. Again, the patterns were the same for all subgroups, regardless of age, education, political affiliation, or opinion on inequality and pay. “In sum,” the researchers concluded, “respondents underestimate actual pay gaps, and their ideal pay gaps are even further from reality than those

It can be said that today social divisions plague Scottish societies, though some are not completely obvious at first thought it can be said that they undoubtedly affect us all, however it can be argued that the impact of them to everyone is very different. Scotland is a developed country, and as part of the UK is one of the most powerful countries in the world both socially and economically, yet it finds itself pulled down by the social divisions that can lead to the creation of a detrimental civilisation. This essay will cover five of the main divisions (gender, class, race, age and health) that are commonly found in Scotland and will be evaluated through evidence and thought to what extent they occur.

During World War II, while men were off at war the women were responsible for taking over men’s duties while still maintaining a balanced family life. Thus began, the rise of women in the workforce, a time when high quality childcare was offered, and women were competing in top jobs such as defense plants, and war related organizations. While men were away at war the women learned to juggle the multiple tasks of being housekeepers, meal makers, balancing finances, and fixing the car. In today’s society, women are unrepresented in these high ranked corporate level jobs, and are held highly to the same standard of being able to “do it all” by herself as if the men are still at war. The article “What’s Holding Women Back in the Workplace?” helps

The nineteenth amendment granted the right for women to vote. It was a proud day in 1920 when many women exercised their right to vote. The injustice that women face daily continues to grow. The unfairness of women can be viewed on television, in films, documentaries and even in the workplace. It seems to be a perpetual cycle. Women have to wear many For many men, a woman has to display strength, subservient and nurturing.

In 1986, The Wall Street Journal published an article called “The Glass Ceiling”, which introduced the concept of the Glass Ceiling. The Glass Ceiling has significant message it is conveying, which is the difficulty for women to move up in the industry or workplace hierarchy, due to their sex. I wanted to put this study together because I believe it is very important for the public to put more attention to this, so women can be able to break the glass. Industries and women have been going head to head trying to break this, but it has been going on for so long we believe this glass ceiling has already turned into plastic. When being introduced this idea I wanted to base my paper on researching how these glass ceiling affected women over time

A tumbler ceiling is a term used to explain "the unseen, but unbreakable barrier that keeps minorities and females from rising to the upper rungs of the company ladder, in spite of their skills or achievements."[1]

Over the years, women have fought their way through the various barriers thrown at them by society, they are now more educated, matching male participation rates in the labour force and they are seen to create more opportunities for themselves in the workplace. Despite these achievements, gender stratification still exists in organizations and corporations in the 21st century; this paper seeks to analyze the numerous reasons why women remain underrepresented in leadership positions in the workplace and how this causes a trickle-down effect for other females in non-managerial positions.

A feminist is defined as a person who supports feminism and feminism is simply the quest or the belief in the social, political and economic equality of sexes. In this essay i am going to dwell on how different organizations demonstrate inequality against women in the working environment and other different organizations such as churches, Law firms and business companies using different feminist theories. Feminist theory uses the conflict approach to examine the strengthening of gender roles and inequalities, highlighting the role of patriarchy in maintaining the oppression of women. Nowadays selection of a candidate for a position in an