Inequality Final Paper

Soc of Law

Inequality Paper Step 1: Pick a topic

1.) Macro-Level Inequality

Whether there is gender inequality in pay

Micro-Level Example of that Inequality

The gender wage gap is mostly a penalty for bearing children. Studies show that there is a dramatic drop in women’s earnings after the birth of their first child, in which there is no comparable wage drop for men.

2.) Research from an economist at Princeton, Henrik Kleven, studies the gender wage gap, specifically regarding the pay drop after women employees give birth to their first child. His research resulted in the findings that women ended up earning a whopping twenty percent less than their male coworkers after having a baby. All in all, this study dug deeper than the obvious notion that men earn more than women. Kleven set out to find out why men earn more, and the theory of wages dropping for women once with-child makes a pretty solid case.