Only read and answer Questions from Bobbitt-Zeher (2011), “Gender Discrimination at Work,� 764-786:
1. What are some of the gender stereotypes that women encountered in the cases that Bobbitt-Zeher (2011) studied?
2. Where was stereotyping more common – in female-dominated, male-dominated, or integrated workplaces? Why might this be?
3. What is ‘discretionary policy use’? How does it lead to discrimination? Include an example from the reading.
Questions from Acker (2006), “Inequality Regimes�, pages 441-464:
4. What are inequality regimes? What kinds of things are distributed unequally?
5. Give some examples from the reading of how, withinorganizations:
a. gender inequality can be linked to class
b. race inequality can be linked to class
c. racial inequality can be linked to gender inequality.
6. Why is it so difficult to challenge and change inequality regimes?
Questions from Blau and Kahn 2007, “The Gender Pay Gap,� pp. 7-23:
7. Based on Blau and Kahn’s (2007) analysis, what factors help explain the gender pay gap (e.g., the ‘wage differential’ between men and women who are working full-time)? What is the ‘unexplained’ portion of the gap? Be sure to note which characteristics have a larger statistical effect than others.
8. According to Blau and Kahn (2007), how did the gender pay gap change over the late 20th century? What factors account for the change (or lack thereof) in the gender pay gap? (This is related to the previous question, but is asking about what explains the change or absence of change over time, rather than simply asking what characteristics account for the pay gap).