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Title: Discrimination against Working Mothers


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Discrimination against Working Mothers
  • The discrimination against working mothers in
    core regions is decreasing, while exploitation of
    the working mothers in periphery regions has been
    increasing because profit is held at a higher
    value than the success of a family,
    discrimination against working mothers is
    inevitable.

2
What court cases have shown
  • hiring profiles exclude married women and women
    with children
  • refusal to hire women with a severely disabled
    or seriously ill children
  • prohibiting any leave of more than ten days- an
    obvious obstacle for caretakers
  • refusal to consider an employee for a promotion
    because she had a child or assumed that she would
    not be interested because the new job required
    travel
  • firing a woman after she became pregnant and
    planned to take maternity leave
  • The Civil Rights Coalition for the 21st Century

3
Solutions for working mothers lead to more
discrimination
  • Manager positions
  • Overall women are equal to men till the age of
    33.
  • Then women steadily lose, with mothers losing
    the most.
  • The gap grew by as much as 21 for every dollar
    earned.
  • The National Report on Work and Family 1995 and
    2000
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Out of 25,000 working mothers, 61 said a
    flexible work schedule is the most effective
    benefit
  • Women are penalized about 23, 2.13 less per
    hour
  • Flexible Work not Working Out. Chicago Tribune.
    2-12-02

4
Internalized Discrimination
  • Study 1 data change in 25 years with agreement
    to statement,
  • much better for everyone involved if the man
    earns the money and the woman takes care of the
    home and children.
  • Fathers In 1977, 34 disagreed. In 2002, 58
  • Mothers In 1977, 61 disagreed. In 2002, 61
  • Study 2 Time spent with children
  • Fathers increased from 1.8 hours to 2.7 hours
  • Mothers just as much time with kids as their
    mothers did 25 years ago too (approximately 3.3
    to 3.4 hours per workday)
  • Families and Work Institute

5
Discrimination against Another Working Mother
  • These mothers are working side-by-side male
    counter parts in highly competitive workplaces
  • Privilege of working in tertiary and quaternary
    sectors of core regions results in recognizable
    efforts to decrease discrimination
  • Working mothers in periphery regions complete
    mostly unpaid work, therefore the economy
    discriminates against them by not even
    recognizing them

6
  • The Worlds Women, a United Nations publication,
    explains that
  • Generally, the lower a sectors share in GDP,
    the higher the amount of informal activity in
    that sector and the greater the participation of
    womenWomens average economic situation in most
    developing regions is certainly worse than GDP
    figures show, as GDP averages do not take any
    account of distributional considerations.
  • Large numbers of women worldwide work in the
    informal sector
  • It accounts for ninety percent of women working
    outside of agriculture in India and Indonesia

7
  • Waring explains working mothers in the informal
    economy are discriminated against because they
    are not counted in the GDP
  • The GDP is used to
  • project public service investment and revenue
    requirement for the nation, and plan the new
    construction, training and other programs
    necessary to meet those needs
  • analyze past and current effects of changes in
    policy or other economic changes
  • create frameworks or models for the integration
    of economic statistics generally
  • quantify all areas of what is considered the
    national economy so that resource allocation
    decisions can be made accordingly
  • forecast short- and medium-term future trends
  • internationally to compare one nations economic
    performance with anothers.

8
Now What?
  • Discrimination against working mothers is mostly
    profit inspired
  • Core regions mothers are more involved with
    children than work
  • Periphery mothers more easily exploitable and
    are not counted if merely sustaining a family
  • As long as profit is highly valued, there will be
    discrimination against working mothers
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