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Discuss the gendered division of paid work and explain its relationship to the issue of pay equity or comparable worth.
 
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__________ is an approach to health care that focuses on prevention of illness and disease and is aimed at treating the whole personbody and mindrather than just the part or parts in which symptoms occur.
 
  a. Traditional medicine
 b. Preventive medicine
 c. Conventional medicine
 d. Holistic medicine



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According to feminist scholars, women experience gender inequality as a result of economic, political, and educational discrimination. Women's position in the U.S. work force reflects their overall subordination. The workplace is another example of a gendered institution. In industrialized countries, most jobs are segregated by gender and by race/ethnicity. Sociologists Judith Lorber notes that in most workplaces, employees are either gender segregated or all of the same gender. Gender-segregated work refers to the concentration of women and men in different occupations that remain more than 90 percent female (for example, secretary, registered nurse, and bookkeeper clerk) or more than 90 percent male (for example, carpenter, truck driver, mechanic, and electrical engineer). Women are severely underrepresented at the top of U.S. corporations. Only about 20 percent of the executive jobs at Fortune 500 companies are held by women, and only fifteen women are the CEO of such a company. Across all categories of occupations, white women and all people of color are not evenly represented. Labor market segmentationthe division of jobs into categories with distinct working conditionsresults in women having separate and unequal jobs. The pay gap between men and women is the best-documented consequence of gender-segregated work. Most women work in lower-paying, less-prestigious jobs, with little opportunity for advancement. Gender-segregated work affects both men and women. Men are often kept out of certain types of jobs. Those who enter female-dominated occupations often have to justify themselves and prove that they are real men. Occupational gender stratification contributes to stratification in society. Occupational segregation contributes to a wage gapthe disparity between women's and men's earnings. Overall, women make approximately 79 cents for 1 earned by men. Women at all levels of educational attainment receive less pay than men with the same levels of education. The gap increases as a person's salary grows. Pay equity or comparable worth is the belief that wages ought to reflect the worth of a job, not the gender or race of the worker. Analysts break a job into components, such as the education, training, and skills required, the extent of responsibility for others' work, and the working conditions, and then allocate points for each. For pay equity to exist, men and women in occupations that receive the same number of points should be paid the same. However, pay equity exists for very few jobs, and little change has occurred over the past two decades in many occupations. libri;letter-spacing:.25pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US; mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'> competitors. ng:.1pt'>with partners, health-related concerns, and lack of readiness or ability to care for a child.

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