Unit C Blog #14

Britton's theory of gendered organization involves the wage gap between working women and men in this country most notably in the same jobs. Britton talks about how this injustice occurs at the level of structure which means that these particular disadvantages for women begin to occur when the job descriptions and titles are created. The jobs are structured to pay men more than women for the same jobs as we were able to learn in the powerpoint. The Power point and the book showed us that women in certain fields such as women lawyers make only 69% of what men lawyers made within the same companies, and women corrections officers made only upwards of 80% of what men corrections officers made. Britton found that this wage gap has existed since jobs wer first created because women have never had equal opportunities to make the same kind of money that men have had. This shows that the level of injustice occuring in everday life is immense, as well as the fact that gendered organization is occuring on a daily basis.

Injustices with the pay of genders from one position to another has been the central theme of the class thus far and for good reason. Britton shows us reasons for her theory on gendered organization but that does not settle the entire case. This type of gendered reasoning is hurting our country because it shows that we still primarily favor the white angolo saxon protestants, or WASPs, and that while we have come a long way from our country's begginings, we still have not come far enough to give equal and fair rights to all genders and races. For a country that is known as the land of the free, plenty of people still struggle everyday to obtain equal pay for doing the same job as the white man.