Volume : VII, Issue : XI, November - 2018

A STUDY ON GENDER BIAS IN WAGE DISCRIMINATION IN INDIA

R. Narasimhan

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One of the harsh realities of the 21st century is the existence of a persistence gap between the wages of men and women around the world. Wage difference on gender basis has been a great global concern for over a century now. Women are still earning about 80 cents for every dollar earned by their male counterparts at work.  That’s part of the problem.  There’s been a lot of thinking, but not much action.  As a result, there hasn‘t been much progress in eliminating the pay gap over the last few decades. One reason we may lack motivation to close the gap is confusion surrounding the roots of the problem.  Often people think that the pay gap can be entirely explained by women’s opting out of the workforce or choosing more flexible schedules to accommodate their families. Others say the pay gap stems from men and women choosing different career paths, with men electing more lucrative professions.  While family obligations and career choice do account for some of the gender pay gap, they certainly don’t account for the whole 20 cents.  In order for women to achieve full parity with men at work, we must eliminate the unconscious bias that still plays a significant role in the gender differences in pay. The only way to completely eliminate unconscious bias is to be unaware of a person‘s gender. The discrimination and biases against women witnessed in social spheres gets mirrored on to economic spaces not only through direct, legitimate routes but also via the resilience in perceptions and mindsets among the agents of the labour markets that reconfigure to retain elements of gender imbalances. The objectives of the research paper is to study about the wage discrimination in india and to analyse  the gender biasness in wage discrimination in india and result analysis proves that the null hypothesis is true and conclude that there is no significant level of  gender biased wage discrimination also exist in Organised sector.

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A STUDY ON GENDER BIAS IN WAGE DISCRIMINATION IN INDIA , R.NARASIMHAN , INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-7|Issue-11| November-2018

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