UNDERSTANDING THE GENDER PAY GAP: WHAT’S COMPETITION GOT TO DO WITH IT?. (2010). Industrial & Labor Relations Review, 63(4), 681-698.
The article describes possible reasons for the gender wage gap and the factors that contribute to the problem. The article hypothesizes that a major contribution to the gap is that women are a lot less competitive compared to men and only compete when the rewards/incentives are higher, and due to the lack of competition their performance falls below that of their male counterparts explaining why men earn more than women. The article concludes that while these reasons are a contributing factor it only makes up a very small percentage of the gap in wages and that misleading data as well as other published article take things for facts instead of putting more research into it, leading people in the wrong direction.
This article connects with my theme of human rights because its explanation of the factors contributing to the major topic of the gender wage gap. The gender wage gap is the difference of wages earned between men and women, and women believe they are being discriminated against as well as some violation to their rights as workers. The author of the article researches possible triggers for what may be the cause of the gap in salaries, the author talks about how data has been used to make the wage gap appear larger than it really maybe and that contributing factors do not have such a large impact as other make it to believe.
Information Literacy: Conflicts 