Because of this view female jobs tend to pay less than sex integrated jobs or those that are only filled by males.
The feminist explanations of how families function and contribute to maintaining women's subordination have transferred in the past decade from those that stressed sex roles and socialization to those that portray processes of categorization and stratification by gender. The focus has moved to families operating to construct gender through the symbolic and structural dimensions of labor, both paid and unpaid, and through the control over income within the family. Gender models have moved theorizing about families away from the emphasis on dichotomies such as public or private, love or money, traditional or modern, and toward recognition of the diverse and contested nature of gender conventions. Rather than positing two opposite, comprehensive, consistent, and exclusive sex roles, the new thought identifies a variety of actively gendered roles that link families with other social institutions.
Throughout history women have been treated unequally just because they are women. There may have been a point in time when this unequal treatment was what worked then. But this is not longer the case. For many years women have been told what they could or could not do. In the beginning...
Because women are the ones who have the babies they were delegated to the role of nurturer and this has been a role that has been very hard to shake over the years. When women stayed at home and raised the children and took care of the house while the men worked this was seen as the norm and people didn't question it. That is the way it had always been done and thus it continued to be done that way. It wasn't until it became necessary for women to work outside of the home that things began to change.
Women today have not completely been able to shake the role of mother and nurturer. There are many examples that can be seen where women are still not treated on an equal playing field with men in the working world. They are not being given the chance in order to prove what they can do. There is no question that things have come a long way but there still appears to be a lot of road to travel yet. Women need to be in a position that they can be treated as individuals. Every woman has her own things that she can contribute to the workforce and she should be allowed to do just that. This is going to take a change in the mindset of the working environment that will allow women to contribute what they can and in the best way possible.
