Jiyao Liu, A02, Week 6

According to the article “Opening the Box: An International Asian Woman Scholar’s Fight” by Akiko Takeyama, I know that how Asian women are treated unequally. As Akiko says in her article, international faculty are an invisible underclass among U.S. academics. No matter how excellent they are, they are often paid less, facing racial and accent discrimination or struggling with language and acculturation issues. 

In fact, the underrepresentation of women in high-level roles is not due to lack of education or attrition rates (Skye, 2019). In Skye article “Facing the Gender Gap in the Workplace”, he/she says that women are underrepresented at every level, and women of colors are the most underrepresented group of all, lagging behind white man, men of color and white women. Obviously, women of color are in the last. This situation also happens in the workplace. According to the McKinsey study, it shows that women are less likely to be hired into every-level jobs than men, even though they currently earn more bachelor’s degrees and have the same attrition rate. Equal Pay Day, which represents how far in the year women must work in order to make the same amount of money men did in the previous year, can be more to reflect the social inequal to women. Thus, many companies focus on culture and organization changes to reduce gender inequality (Skye, 2019). This changes make me feel that many people realize that women are treated inequality and willing to reduce this inequality.

Question: In fact, many companies hire more men than women is because they think women would get pregnant and take maternity leave rather than think women have less ability at their jobs. So how to avoid the discrimination for this reason? 

Reference

Takeyama, Akiko. Opening the Box: An International Asian Woman Scholar's Fight. 

Skye Schooley, Staff. (May 20, 2019). Facing the Gender Gap in the Workplace. Retrieved from https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/4178-gender-gap-workplace.html.