Question

The gender wage gap generates considerable discussion. As defined by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), this gap is the "difference between male and female earnings expressed as a percentage of male earnings." Critics of the pay gap note that women do not work as many hours as men, that children necessitate women as primary caregivers (as the sole persons able to bear children), and that the entire problem "can be explained away by simply taking account of college majors." All of this debate underscores what basic idea?

Answer 1

All of the opinions from the critics of the pay gap underscore the idea of male dominance in society.

Step-by-step explanation:

Critics of the pay gap that concieve the difference between male and female earnings as natural or as a consequence of the fewer hours women work, or the fewer women that have a college major help perpetuate and reproduce the idea of male dominance in society. These opinions fail to see the structural inequalities that relegate women into being second class citizens and that have been sistematically putting women below men in the job market. The idea that women are the sole persons capable of raising children also contributes to such inequalities, confining women to the domestic life and making it possible for men to work longer hours out of home and, therefore, recieve more benefits such as bigger earnings.

Answer 2

This debate is widely known and assumes a pathriarchy structure. Men understands that, since women can have babies, it is ok to pay less since at somepoint she will have kids and work less. First: not all women want to have kids. Some women just want to keep working. Second: Women need men to have kids. Kids are everyone's business, not only women, so you lower women's pay and do not allow for men to have days off, you assume that only women have responsability over the child, what is not true. Everyone can have kids, at some point, so the wage should be equal for everyone, just as the days off to take care of a newborn and for children's sick days, for example. The fact that less women have majors in college is due the fact that women started being able to go to college not long ago, and they still have more problems maintaning themselfs in college for multiple reasons.