PHIL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Affirmative Action, Negative Liberty, Positive Liberty

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1010
• Professor: Kyle Bromhall

Document Summary

There are three different measurements that cool uses to tackle the issue at hand: annual earnings, full-year, full-time employees" income only, hourly wage concerning all forms of employment. Changing measurements does determine how wide or narrow the gap is but the big one is hourly wage, taking all forms of work into account. Permanent female workers without union coverage make 78% of what unionized men make. Permanent female workers with union coverage make 93% of what non- unionized men make: the discrepancy between the temporary work wage gap and the permanent work wage gap should be noted. The hourly wage also varies based on occupation; some examples include: arts, culture, recreation, and sport 99, health occupations 98, occupations unique to primary industry (agriculture, logging, etc. ) This is despite the fact that most of these workers are unionized: management occupations 80%