PB2B Revision

 The two scholarly articles I chose are:

1. 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
2. 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 specific professions, as well as percentages of each gender in multiple disciplines.

Both these articles review and studied the topic of gender wage gaps in many similar as well as dissimilar ways. The content and overall base of these articles ask the same basic question – is there a wage gap between genders? While the first article, helped written by Professor Han, discusses more fact-based evidence supporting the fact that businesswomen face more hardship in a CEO position then a businessman would face. Yet in the second article, it is almost as if they are trying to prove the fact that there are too many variables that have effect on one’s salary, therefore saying there can’t be factual evidence that there is a true gender wage gap. Several questions were created through these articles such as; What variables go into one’s salary? Is performance between men and women equal in the business discipline?  The argument the author(s) of the first article were making was that women are more likely to have more hardships then men in a CEO business position. The argument of the second article’s author was that there are far too many measurable things which have effect of one’s salary than just their sex/gender.

I believe this genre is the most unique topic because of how often this is talked about in media/social media, yet nothing has been done about it recently. No research, studies, or evidence has been released to the public through the news or social media addressing this topic. The purpose that both these articles have in common is that they are attempting to address the public who are uninformed on the matter, that it exists. The writing styles I believe both articles used was completely informational as well as factual. Opinions don’t truly matter when it comes to this topic, because several accounts of opinionated researches had previously been released. What we need is facts. Pure research studies or surveys, not someone who has a gender studies degree that tells us that “women get paid less than men”, yet share no evidence backing their claims up.

I believe the most important part of these articles are the parts which address how important the topic of wage gaps is. Not many articles speak about the actual consequences of this occurring, but both of these articles do speak on the topic.