January 24, 2019
Based on the Gender Wage Gap reading, do the following activities:
1. Organize the text in a coherent order
2. What can be the name for each part? (parts of an essay)
3. What words or phrases did the author use to signal causes and effects?
4. What kind of language is used? (grammar, vocabulary)
3. Do a summary by using a graphic organizer
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Currently, one of the glocal issues is the Gender Wage Gap . Do you know what it is? well, click on the link and do the reading. After reading, analyze the text and answer the following questions in comments:
1. Identify the key words or terms that are related to the topic?
2. What is the main idea of the text?
3. What is the definition of the issue?
4. What are its causes?
5. What are its consequences?
6. What are the solutions?
7. Which grammar topics do you identify in the text?
*Take a look at another issue. Practice your reading skill and learn new vocabulary:
climate change
Project task 1:
1. In project team, Choose 1 article about your topic and analyze it
2. Download the file Project Task 1: Academic Reading and share it with me in Drive (degomezv@unal.edu.co)
Sugggestions to choose your glocal issue article:
Strategies:
1. Identify reliable sources of information.
These are some reliable sources of information where you can find your articles, but you can also look for others:
Conserve energy future: https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/category/pollution
https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/category/global-warmingClimate change:
http://www.cuentoseningles.com.ar/ecology/environment/climatecrisis1.html
UN Data Base: http://sinab.unal.edu.co/index.php/recursos-bibliograficos/bases-de-datos
Voice of America: http://www.voanews.com/
2. Recognize the topics of the text. Build a glossary with the keywords.
Digital tools to build a glossary ⇦
Your dictionary
Visual dictionary
Terminology Dictionary
3. Recognize general and specific ideas: Skimming & Scanning.
4. Use graphic organizers to represent the most important ideas, build connections and understand a text better.
1. Equal, pay, sex, discrepancy, employers, work, gap, gender, mothers, discrimination, solution, children, family
ReplyDelete2. Gender wage gap
3. The gender-based wage gap is still a major social issue in the United States. In 2018, on average American women earn 19.5% less than their male colleagues according to the US Census Bureau.
4.
One of the biggest reasons for this discrepancy is that there is continues to be gender-based discrimination in the workplace.
Another major contributor to the wage gap is the lack of women in the highest strata of business leadership
5.
The gender pay gap hurts the American economy as a whole as it deters women from participating fully in the economy.
6.
The first step to a serious and lasting solution is requiring that wages are more transparent.
Another important step towards a solution is mandated paid maternity and sick leave
More participation the women in the government
7.
Mainly comparatives
1. Key words: Women, wape, gap, gender, equal, discrepancy, work
ReplyDelete2. The main idea of the text is the gender wage gap as a issue global, its effects and possible solutions
3. The definition of issue is the inequality that exist between men and women in the laboral fields, the employers dont pay an equal wage for equal work, they are based in the sex of employee
4. One of the biggest reasons for this discrepancy is that there ir continues to be gender-based discrimination in the workplace.Also social norms contribute to the issue of gender wage gap, women are more likely to have to interrupt their careers in order to have and raise children. Additionally, family responsabilities often fall on the mother
5. The gender pay gap hurts the American economy as a whole as it deters women from participating fully in the economy and women hold significantly fewer positions of power that men in Unite States and fewer people are able to advocate from a position of power for equal pay for women
6. The first step to a serious and lasting solution is requiring that wages are more transparent, another important step to wards a solution is mandated paid maternity sick leave and the finally solution is more participation the women in the government
7. Superlatives and comparatives
keywords
ReplyDeletewage,gap,issue,discrimination,women ,discrepancy,gender ,equality,societal,norms
I think the main idea is inequality in the wage gap based on gender. Explain the factors and solutions with examples of society, discrimination in the workplace and wage inequality, violation of ideas, justice and equality.
The problem is social inequality based on the wage gap between men and women.
Causes
Society norms
Ancient thoughts
Dishonest companies
Lack of work
Need for money
Lack of women in power to offer their support
Consequences
Discrimination in the workplace
The women's less representated in high earning fields
The lack of women in the highest strata of business leadership
Deteriorates in the economy
Poverty
Discrimination social
Solutions
The wages more transparent
Mandated paid maternity and sick leave
Women well prepared in their studies
Ensure compliance with the law
I identify comparatives and superlatives .
1. Equality, gender, racial discrimination, women, mothers, family.
ReplyDelete2. Pay equality
3. Wage inequality between men and women generates economic problems, although five decades ago work was done about it, it is still a current problem
4. There is no recognition of womens work
5. Few wage income is recorded for women. The family economy is affected. Women do not have recognition in society.
6. More transparent salaries, sharing of salary information, paid maternity leave, guaranteeing child care.
7. Informative and comparative.
1 - Gender, women, wage, gap, men, equality, economic, discrimination, issue.
ReplyDelete2- The main idea of the text is gender wage gap in United States, this is a local issue
3- The wage inequality between women and men, discrimination by employers.
4- One of main causes of the issue exists in the United States are the laws that existed, the discrimination that these generate make the employers follow with the discrimination. Also the employees do not talk about the inequality in which they are.
1-
ReplyDeletea)Wage gap
b)Gender-based
c)Discrimation
d)Discrepancy
e)Economy
f)Sacrifices
g)Employers and employees.
h)Workplace
i)Income
j)Raise
2- Gender-based wage gap
3- Gender-based wage gap, means the lack of quality for the woman's income.I.e., women earn less money than men, when they do the same work.
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a)There is continues to be gender-based discrimination in the workplace.
b)Societal norms also contribute to the issue of gender wage gap.
5-
a)Women are more likely to have to interrupt their careers in order to have and raise children.
b)A woman's work is sometimes perceived to be less valuable than a man's work.
c)Their areas of studies often do not yield the highest income.
d)Women are underrepresented in the highest earnings fields.
e)Women hold significantly fewer positions of power than men.
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a)Companies should have to publish the wages they are paying their employees.
b)Mandated paid maternity and sick leave.
c)The government must subsidies childcare and pre-school to make it more readily available and affordable.
d)A firmer push by schools and education entities to advance the role of women in high earning fields like science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
7-
a)Comparatives and superlatives.
b)Independent clauses.
c)Past verbs.
d)Future auxiliaries.
1.Economy, wage gap, job, opportunities,inequality, race, gender
ReplyDelete2.The main idea of the text is based on the wage gap that exists between men and women
3.The problem of the text is based on the inequality that exists between the wages of women and men in addition to the various complications that this problem takes on issues such as motherhood and races.
4.There is still a gender-based discrepancy in workplaces,The work of the woman is perceived as less valuable than that of a man,Social norms and The lack of women in the highest strata of business leadership.
5.The consequences of the wage gap are: It harms the economy, harms families with mothers heads of family, more oppression and less free time for men, creates a difference of power between women and men.
6.More transparent salaries, approve the fair payment law, paid maternity and sick leave, and a stronger drive by schools and educational entities to advance the role of women in high-income fields such as science and the technology
7.Future auxiliars, Past verbs; irregulars verbs,Informative and comparative,superlatives...
1. pay, women, equal, work, wage, gap
ReplyDelete2. the main idea of the text is that there is no equal work between men and women to the extent that in the same jobs women often receive lower pay just for being a woman and that this generates a wage gap between men and women who perform the same work based on discrimination against women
3. There is a wage gap between men and women in the United States because women are less paid than men because of their status as female in the performance of the same job
4. the cause of women being less paid than men by the performance of the same job are discrimination, sexist culture and gender inequality
5. some of the consequences are that women are not motivated to participate in the economy, family mothers have problems to take food to their homes and women lose ground in the struggle for equal
6. Some solutions could be to implement more rigorous policies that require all companies to pay men and women equally, make educational campaigns and raise awareness about the importance of gender equality.
7. irregulars verbs, comparatives and superlatives,Indefinite article, gender noun, compound verbs
1. Work, Sex, Gender, Equality, Women, Family, Mothers, Economy
ReplyDelete2. In the text shows the salary inequality and the opportunities that women have in the labor field, explaining how it corresponds to the economy.
3. The problem of the inequality that men and women have in the labor field, and in this way is gender inequality.
4. There are many contributing factors to the issue of gender wage gap. One of the biggest reasons for this discrepancy is that there is continues to be gender-based discrimination in the workplace. For instance, among financial managers, women make 67% of what men make for doing essentially the same work as them. This gap illustrates one of the most stubborn problems in tackling this issue: a woman’s work is sometimes perceived to be less valuable than a man’s work. There are other more material issues that women must deal with as well. Societal norms also contribute to the issue of gender wage gap. Women are more likely to have to interrupt their careers in order to have and raise children.
5. The wage gap directly hurts the families of these working mothers. Furthermore, gender pay gap hurts the American economy as a whole as it deters women from participating fully in the economy.
prohibit employers from retaliating against employees for sharing information about their wages.
Another important step towards a solution is mandated paid maternity and sick leave. The burden of bearing children is on women. Women should not be financially penalized for starting a family. Additionally, the government must subsidies childcare and pre-school to make it more readily available and affordable
6. Although the problem at hand is deeply rooted, there are solutions. The first step to a serious and lasting solution is requiring that wages are more transparent. Companies should have to publish the wages they are paying their employees. Currently, some employers in the United States can retaliate against their employees if they share information about their wages with their colleagues. This practice allows employers to hide the discrimination they are perpetrating. Some legislators in congress are trying to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would prohibit employers from retaliating against employees for sharing information about their wages. Another important step towards a solution is mandated paid maternity and sick leave. The burden of bearing children is on women. Women should not be financially penalized for starting a family. Additionally, the government must subsidies childcare and pre-school to make it more readily available and affordable.
7. past, Comparatives, superlatives
1. Wage pay, equality gender, work, equal pay, justice.
ReplyDelete2. The main idea is that gender inequality is present in the labor area. Women earn less than men, there are different factors that influence this wage gap. For this problem there are solutions that require social and cultural changes.
3. The wage gap between women and men is the difference in the wage they receive, this difference is caused for the inequality gender.
4. There are different causes, the most important are the social and cultural context, the old and erroneous ideas that define the qualities, characteristics, work,and others, that are attributed to women cause that the wage gap be more wide.
5. the consequences are: the inequality pay do that the inequality gender be more, the women don't have equality remuneration economic for the same works that men, the women have works that are considered less important for the wage gap, the inequity pay generate more injustice in the context labor, cultural and social.
6.The solutions are: implement and regulate laws that control wage and allow the equality, that the maternity don't be excuse for lower de wage of women, and the most important is to change the inequality gender, change the culture and social precepts.
7. comparatives and superlatives, irregulars verbs, past verbs.
1. Gender, wage discrepancy, employers, social issue, equal work, US Census Bureau, gap, women, family, pay.
ReplyDelete2. Gender wage gap.
3. It is the gender inequality that exists between men and women, when earning a wage.
4. One of the causes more important is the discrimination that exists with women. When they go to work.
5. The gender pay gap affects to development of the US economy, because many women are mothers and to the not receive a wage suitable, it can increase poverty.
6. One solution is that to the companies the to force them to comply with the laws to that can see an equal pay.
7. Comparatives, past verbs and superlatives.
1.Gender,Wage Gape,Sex,Discrepancy,Equality.
ReplyDelete2.The main idea is Gender Wage Gape.
3.The Gender-based wage gap,the discrepancy between the wage of womans and mans
4.-There is continues to be gender-based discrimination in the workplace.
-Societal norms contribute to the gender inequality.
5.-A woman's work is perceivend to be less valuable than a man's work, sometimes.
-The womans are more likely to have to interrupt their carreers, and if a woman have a children,according by the US Labor Bureau,earn 3% less than woman who don't have children.
6.-Wages more transparent
-Mandated paid maternity and sick leave.
7.Past verbs, superlatives and comparatives.