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  • Essay / The Negative Impacts of Gender Inequality - 1061

    Men are likely to be hired if they have children and tend to be paid more. On the other hand, women are less likely to be hired even if they have more quality and children. This is where gender inequality comes into play. In this article “The Motherhood Penalty versus the Fatherhood Bonus”, the author presented the role and impact between gender roles. Michelle Budig, a sociology professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, put it this way: “Gender role inequality reveals that men are paid well to have children and women pay the highest price for low incomes” (Qtd. in Miller). According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 71 percent of mothers work at home with their children and 40 percent are the primary breadwinner (Pew Research Center). In this perspective, women working at home and men working in a career exchange qualifications with each other. The inequality is that the employer sees the father as a committed worker and the mother as a distraction in the workplace because women have extra working hours to do at home with their children and household chores. Claire Miller states that “one of the worst career decisions a woman can make is having children” (Claire Miller). As for women in the United States, they experience many negative impacts if they decide to have babies. Quality for them is reduced to the corner while men have the advantage of having