Gender inequality within the workplace is the core reasons why women's jobs often have lower pay and status. Women are less likely than men to hold higher-paying professional, technical, and managerial jobs. Women usually have a much higher representation in secretarial, sales, and service positions. They outnumbered men in office jobs in, for example, even though a relatively small percentage of women are in the labor force. In Brazil, more than twice as many service …showed first 75 words of 217 total…

…showed last 75 words of 217 total…can devote to work, which makes them appear less committed or competent than men, who can spend more time at their jobs. But in many ca! ses, women's lower positions reflect simple gender discrimination. Employers are reluctant to promote women to managerial jobs because they worry that women's household responsibilities might interfere with their work performance, or simply because they believe women are not as good as men in leadership or administrative positions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**