The Study of the Gender Wage Gap
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https://doi.org/10.54097/hbem.v21i.14700Keywords:
gender discrimination, gender inequality, wage gap.Abstract
The gender wage gap is a prevalent phenomenon in the world, which exuberates inequality and discrimination. This article is a qualitative study that mainly discusses the gender wage gap by analyzing the causes of some prevention to alleviate the gender wage gap. The purpose of this article is to figure out the influencing factors of the gender wage gap and carry out some possible preventions of the gender wage gap getting bigger. According to previous researches, gender discrimination can be roughly defined as the basis of the gender wage gap, and the social background of patriarchy is the other original factor that leads to the gender wage gap. In other words, the gender wage gap is the microcosm of gender discrimination and it implies the present social problems.
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