A recent survey of Human Resources managers revealed the inequalities of women's versus men's salaries in the workplace. The study commissioned by CareerBuilder.com showed that one in five HR managers admitted that women are earning less money for doing the same work as men.
"More than 3,200 workers and more than 220 human resource managers in the private sector across industries participated in a nationwide survey, conducted online by Harris Poll on behalf of CareerBuilder from November 4 and December 1, 2015," the survey said.
Even startling is the current notion that employees hold on the way men and women are treated in the workplace. Over half of the respondents, about 55 percent of them, do not think that men and women are provided the same chances to advance their careers.
Gender inequalities are no more manifested than the salaries men and women are paid. The study unveiled the fact that men in the workplace are almost three times as likely as their female counterparts to earn six figure incomes and almost twice as likely to earn $50,000 or more. On the other hand, women are twice likely to say they earn less than $35,000.
This earning inequality between genders is proven by statistics. The Bureau of Census in the United States showed that "Women working full-time, year-round jobs earned 78.6% of what similar men did in 2014, up from 78.3% in 2013."
This has led the Women's Policy Research to conclude that "If current trends continue, women will not see equal pay with men until 2059."
But the other side of the coin does not see it that way. About 80 percent of HR managers surveyed by CareerBuilder.com does not believe that there is gender inequality in the US pay scale. They carry the idea that there are more factors such as job classifications that can influence pay inequality between men and women.
