1. Justification of Inequality by
Elite?
Jeff Smith
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2. The Facts
• The Top 1% are using
their money and authority
to stay at the top.
• Why is this happening?
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3. Schooling
• With educational attainment going
increasingly to the children of the affluent
and educated it increases the wage gap
more.
• We appear to be developing a self-
perpetuating elite that reaps a greater and
greater share of financial rewards.
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4. Poor Schools
• The National Education Association has made
an effort to eliminate any contract language that
forces the best teachers to schools with high-
needs (rich schools).
• Better schools for poorer communities would
dramatically increase the potential for success
regardless of race or gender.
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5. Inequality in the Workplace
• The median female income has risen
faster than the male median, growing from
about two-fifths in 1960 to three-fifths in
2008.
• Still, women remain over-represented
among low income earners and under-
represented among the super rich.
• WHY?
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6. The Cost of Being A Mother
• Working mothers not only earn less than men, but
also less per hour than childless women.
• “The pay gap between mothers and non-mothers
under age thirty-five is now larger than the wage
gap between young men and women.” (K& O-R
340)
• Women have a greater likelihood of interrupting
their careers for childbearing and other family
work. This makes females a poorer long-term
human-capital investment for a company.
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7. Family
• “…But fathers with working wives, who
presumably had a few more domestic
responsibilities, earned almost 20 percent
less. There it is again: a 20 percent family
wage gap.” (K& O-R 342).
• The reason given by executives is that
fathers from dual-career families put in an
average of two fewer hours per week (4%
less) than men whose wives were at home.
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9. Article 1
• The Paradox of the New Elite
• http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/opinio
n/sunday/social-inequality-and-the-new-
elite.html?pagewanted=all
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10. Article 2
• For Women in the Workplace, an
‘Upgrade Problem’
• http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/world/
europe/27iht-women27.html?
pagewanted=all
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11. Brick Lane
• Nazneen is forced to marry Chanu
• Nazneen tries to adapt to her situation, to
obey her husband and be content.
• However, she learns through friends and
her daughters over time that she doesn’t
have to be content with this lifestyle.
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12. Change
• It only makes sense to hire people based
on their experience/skill and to pay based
on solely on that.
• I believe that for serious change to happen
people will have to bring it to court.
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13. The Future
• “In their impatience for change, these
women often forget that their rise to
becoming half or more of the work force in
many places took place recently — in the
past 50 to 60 years.” (Clark).
• In the years to come women will hold
more elite positions in the workforce and
society in general.
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