David Cucinotta ENG 15

  The two scholarly articles I chose are: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2017/11/07/do-women-ceos-face-greater-shareholder-activism-compared-to-male-ceos-a-role-congruity-perspective/#more-102583 http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=3fccf13a-9cf5-419c-b509-bcc778854e4f%40pdc-v-sessmgr02&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=93375674&db=buh These articles discuss the hardships that can occur when wages are uneven between genders, races, cultures, etc. My first article was partially written by the professor who I which to propose my ACURA project to, Professor Han. She wrote about the fact that there are factors which change a company based on the gender of the CEO, and she questions if women face more judgement or hardship when they have a CEO position. My second article discusses the variables that may have something to do with wage gaps such as average hours worked per year, how effect each gender is at ...

Professor Han, funny to meet you here, do you have a minute? My name's David Cucinotta, and I am a huge fan of your research in gender research in the business discipline. I just wanted to talk with you about an important topic, which affects you, as well as myself. Wage gaps. Weather that gap be due to sex, age, culture, or race - it needs to be discussed. In the business discipline, the possibility of a gender wage gap is a large controversial topic discussed by many scholarly researchers. Hours upon hours of research and surveys have been conducted to answer the question which is still unanswered: Is there a wage gap between genders. I come to you wishing to build upon your personal research on the matter, and to truly come to a definitive answer. One of your various scholarly articles " Do Women CEOs Face Greater Shareholder Activism Compared to Male CEOs?" presents great factual evidence to argue both sides of this topic. I believe that if more effort was to be put i...

WP2 Feedback Matrix Did Not Meet Expectations Met Expectations Exceeded Expectations Faculty Member is a Logical Choice  Discipline and Sub-Discipline Agree  ACURA elevator pitch Vocabulary / Understanding of Topic Analysis Genre Knowledge PowerPoint / Google Slides Other Comments              An elevator pitch is a persuasive sales pitch. Elevator pitches are used to try and persuade a person, or group of persons, to "buy into" what you're selling. This should spark interest to potential "buyers", and communicate to them what your organization does. Some conventions of an elevator pitch are; persuasion, pleading, illusion, fast-paced, to-the-point, timely, disciplined, scholarly, etc.             ...

Research Questions: Do women make the same salary as men do, on average, in the business field? Is there any proof and or factual research that backs up this claim? Why is the business field, specifically, so important to have an equal platform among both sexes? Is there a different level of production that comes from female or male run businesses? Does the sex of the CEO have any financial effect on that business? Keywords: Wage gap Gender studies Sex of CEO Business Salary difference Business women Business production Financial effect Male vs. Female wage Wage gap theory Citations: MLA Format Bartolucci, Cristian. "Gender Wage Gaps Reconsidered: A Structural Approach using Matched Employer-Employee Data." Journal of Human Resources , vol. 48, no. 4, 2013, pp. 998-1034. Balcar, Jiří, and Veronika Hedija. "Influence of Female Managers on Gender Wage Gap and Returns to Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills....

                        The discipline I selected for WP2 is Business. A concept that a researcher at Penn State Abington studies in this field is the topic of gender wage gaps. This professor, Seonghee Han, is one of the professors who study in this aspect of business. In the business field, the question of if there is a wage gap between genders is recently a very popular topic. The reason I find this intriguing is that there are several instances where female business employees are paid differently than men employees, but if this difference in pay have anything to do with their sex. To me, it seems almost impossible to be able to measure this in detail, purely because there are so many variables that affect how a person is paid in a specific field, especially the business field. If I had to devote a long time studying in this field, I would devote that time to uncovering facts and falsities among this specific cont...