Business statistics - Inequalities on salaries

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After making a survey on a chosen subject, each student has to prove its memo and its proposal with statistics. The purpose of this memo is to request your authorization to conduct a research project to test an idea for expanding our market share. The problematic is the following: business World still feed differences between men and women on wages.

The statement of the problem is that nowadays, business women meet barriers which develop a big difference in the salaries of men and women in comparable jobs. Those differences create and make the discrimination process growing. As an hypothesis, if Government sends, every year, a "bonus income", fixed according to their income, to French executive women, they will report higher levels of respect and more positive perception of fairness.

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[...] Businessmen earned a middle income of 45 k Euros per year. Wages differences increase according to the age of women and men: Pay differential, in 2007, reached for executives of less 35 years old; 13% for 35 to 44 years old and 19% for 45 years old and more. B. Reasons 1. Structural effect Nowadays, there are as many graduate women as graduate men. However, women get less experience than men and men are many to have a training course. [...]

[...] I do not think so Do you agree if Government send you an income bonus (percentage of your current salary) to reduce inequalities? Yes No I do not know If Yes, which percentage do you think could decrease discrimination on salaries ? Less than10% From 10% to 15% From 15% to 20% From 20% to More than 25% Who has been interrogated? Our target was exclusively composed of business women, from 20 to 55 years old. We have interrogated 39 women to answer our survey, working into hypermarkets industry, in Auchan in France. [...]

[...] However, with our little results, we could notice that our theory is quite good, as most of business women trust in this proposition. Government should be careful of salary discrimination, mostly in marketing and sales department; they seem to be deeper touched by the phenomenon than the other ones. The bonus income, business women are likely to expect belongs to a range from 15 to of their own wage. Bibliography “Statistics for Business” de Derek L. Waller janvier 2008. “Complex Inequality: Gender, Class, and Race in the New Economy” de Leslie McCall juin 2001. [...]

[...] After all those questions, we ask them about eventual inequalities in salaries with men who work into the same firm. We also proposed an income bonus from government to reduce eventual inequalities if they believe into this proposition, they could give us a percentage of income bonus they think it could really kill discrimination. After having questioned some women, we put our results into an excel table to have a better view on them. However, as we transformed results into numbers to get real statistics, it is necessary to read the next legend: COLUMN AGE (YO for Years Old): COLUMN JOB SECTOR COLUMN FIRM SENIORITY COLUMN SALARY RANGE COLUMN MEN EARN MORE COLUMN % EARNED MORE COLUMN PAY DIFFERENTIAL COLUMN SOLUTION POSSIBLE COLUM INCOME BONUS COLUMN % INCOME BONUS What interest us to know is finally to discover the percentage of income bonus, Government should send to business women to reduce inequalities on salary with men, in France. [...]

[...] Thanks to our survey, we could have a small idea on that point. To the question, you think Men earn more than you, with the same of questioned women answered YES only said No and 38% answered I DO NOT KNOW. We could have a deeper view on results by analyzing their job department, according to their answer. Women who answered YES, mostly work in marketing sector and sales department. Most of women who said NO to the last question, are situated in the sales department other ones). [...]