Question

       4.

Female Labor

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D_f

S_f

Wf/W_m

Refer to the following diagram, in which W_f/W_m is the ratio of the female wage rate to the male wage rate and answer the following questions.

(1) The demand curve in the diagram eventually slopes downward because:

a.           as the female/male wage ratio falls, more firms find it “too costly” to indulge their tastes for discrimination

b.           as the female/male wage ratio rises, more firms find it “too costly” to indulge their tastes for discrimination

c.           as the female/male wage ratio falls, firms will raise their discrimination coefficients

d.           as the female/male wage ratio falls, firms will reduce their discrimination coefficients

Answer 1

Ans Option C.) There is a huge income inequalities between the income of male and female workers, despite the efforts made to reduce the inequalitiy of the wages of male and females.Which is due to the discrimination between the gender.The other reason is mainly the women are employed in unorganised sector.The lower the ratio that is

Wf/Wm or wages of females and wages of males which implies higher wages of males than females is an indicator of inequality based on gener.Hence correct answer is Optin C . As a fall in the ratio of wages of female and male will lead to high discrimination coefficient, which converts the prejudices into monetary terms which can come from employer, employee and customers or the result of the opinion of the same mentioned above.