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This 4 page paper looks at the way wage discrimination is occurring in the airline industry, why and how it is occurring and what is happening about it. The paper looks at the issues and has an annotated bibliography. The bibliography cites 2 sources.
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disparities in many industries which reflect the social biases, both in appreciates, such as bias due to race r gender, as well as the underlying social factors, such as the
minorities or women less likely to be able to gain skilled jobs (Guadeloupe, 2004). Guadeloupe (2004) argues that the deregulation of the industry and the loss of monopoly rent
places a downward pressure on prices. The pressures will result in large disparity emerging for the lower skilled groups and appears to be higher in the Anglo American form of
capitalism, with a greater level of discrimination in wages in the US and the UK, when compared to more socialist capitalism models, such as those in France and Germany (Guadeloupe,
2004). There are many examples of the way that this has immerged in real life, for example, (Swoboda, 1998) looks at a case of wage discrimination at US Airlines who
were found to have discriminated following an audit that was undertaken by the Labor Department. The results of the audit were mixed, it reports that there was not found to
be any discrimination taking place in terms of the way women were promoted, and that there was not the traditional glass ceiling preventing women getting to the top. However, it
was found that women managers were not being paid the same as their male counterparts. This was found to effect 30 women who were currently, or in the past, had
been paid less than their male equivalents. The company is reported as stating that the disparity was due to "anomalies in the companys early history then exacerbated by the
{companys} financial difficulties of the early 1990s". There have been two resulting moves by the airline. The first is the agreement reached with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance
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