Analysis of women and minorities in the labour industry in America
Previous decades had set a clear distinction between the jobs women and the minority groups in America could participate in and those that the white American males could that had set a trend followed for many years. This disparity set the males on a higher income scale than the females and the minority and set the disparity between white collar jobs and blue collar jobs. The minority group were only allowed to do the blue collar jobs while the whites who formed the majority group did the white collar jobs. This analysis incorporates statistical data collected from the Statistical Bureau.
Changing trends in the legal industry
The legal industry had for the past decades been considered a masculine work that could only be done by the white Americans. However, statistics has for the recent past shown that more blacks and women are graduating from law colleges and having a successful legal career as indicated in the graph below (BLS 2013This group of discriminated persons have had to work twice as hard as their male counterparts to fit among this group of “learned friends” (Gorge 2013).Today, the US records a large percentage of women and the minority groups such as the Latin Americans and Black Americans practising successful legal firms and careers as opposed to the past decades.
Diversification of the labour market
The whites, who were considered as a majority group and worthy of doing white collar jobs such as law have now been seeing taking to some of the jobs that were considered blue collar such as those of office messengers, receptionists, and even mechanics (Brass 2011). This shows how the American market has diversified over the years with statistics from the Bureau of Statistics showing a significant growth in the taxes paid from blue collar jobs.
There is also the existence of more men in the fields that were previously considered feminine like nursing and cooking. More male chefs are preferred to female chefs, and more homes prefer male nurses and aides to the females. This just proves that there is no job for a specific person, and that any individual regardless of their racial background or gender can be good at the job they choose to do (Cuellar 2010).
After the recession of 2007 to 2009 there was a significant decline in the employed Hispanic population in the manufacturing, construction, financial, business and professional services. The job losses settled in 2010, after which Hispanic employment increased in the professional business services and retail trade. By 2012, there was a 1.1% increase in the employment rate of Hispanics. The Hispanics are underrepresented in various professions. For instance, only 10.9% of jobs belong to the Hispanics in the health and social assistance industry. Hispanics account for a measly 7% in the Science, Technology, Mathematics and Engineering occupations. In the computer and mathematical occupations, architecture, engineering, and physical, life and social science occupations, Hispanics account for 5.7%, 6.4%, and 5.9% respectively.
References
Brass, T (2011). Labour Regime Change in the Twenty-First Century. Leiden: Brill.
Bureau of Labour Statistics, (2013). Highlights on women earning in 2012. BLS website available at http://www.bls.gov/opub/
Cuellar A, (2010). “Customers satisfaction falls with banks services,” Economic Section, Canada, Copre PR.
Gorge. M. (2013). A Modest Session of Reality: the Economist. N.Y.: World Bank, Available at www.hrw.org/world-report/2013/country-chapters/venezuela
