PSYC 3533 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Premarital Sex, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Gender Studies
26 Mar 2017
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Stratification: refers to a system in which groups of people experience unequal access to basic, yet highly valuable, social resources. Canada is characterized by gender stratification (as well as stratification of race, income, occupation, and the like). Evidence of gender stratification is especially keen within the economic realm. Despite women making up nearly half (48 percent) of payroll employment, men vastly outnumber them in authoritative, powerful, and, therefore, high-earning jobs (statistics canada. Women"s income for full-year, full-time workers has remained at 72 percent of the income of men since 1992. The average hourly wage is better: women earned 83 percent of men"s average hourly wage in. 2008, up from 76 percent in 1988 (statistics canada 2011). However, as one report noted, if the gender gap in wages continues to close at the same glacial rate, women will not earn the same as men until the year 2240.
