Women in Business Podcast Outline

Clarissa Campbell:  Hello and welcome to the “Women in Business” podcast.  I’m Clarissa Campbell and my co host here is Jennifer Lopez.  
Jennifer Lopez: Today we will be discussing an article from the fall 2012 issue of the scholarly journal, “Women in Business.”  The article, written by Leigh Elmore, is called “HOW far HAVE women COME?”  
Clarissa Campbell: The piece focuses on the many injustices women STILL face in the workplace, despite the many obstacles we have overcome.
Jennifer Lopez:  To start, we are going to interview both a male and a female professional in the business world today.
Clarissa Campbell: We have shown both of our respondents the Journal article and asked them a set of questions in response. These questions have connections to the article as well as dilemmas we see in today’s society.  The first individual, Mr. Phillip Drake, works as an accountancy professor here at Arizona State University.
Jennifer Lopez: So Mr. Drake, now that you have read the article I will ask you a series of questions based on the journal article as well as your own personal opinion. (Mr. Drake has yet to respond with his answers to our questions so I will only list the questions for you our outline)

1. Have you ever seen a type of gender discrimination throughout your time being at ASU as an accounting teacher either towards a student or another faculty member?
2. What is your point of view in regards to women holding high positions in the corporate world?
3. According to this article, “in America, women are paid an average of 80 cents for every dollar paid to men. The pay gap is even larger for women of color, with black women earning about 70 cents, and Latinas about 60 cents, of every dollar paid to all men," Were you aware of this fact prior to reading this article?Why do you feel that there is such a big price gap for the salaries of men and women, what is the reason behind it?
4. Do you feel that the pay gap between women and men will ever close or be resolved anytime soon?
5. What is your view on women having maternity leave and breastfeeding policies while working. Are you for it or against it?
6. What do you think women need to accomplish to have equality within the business community, what steps need to be taken to be taken serious?
7. According to this journal article, “Only 17 percent of its members are women. Between 1923 and 2011, only 28 women have chaired congressional committees, and only 45 women of color have ever served in Congress--just one in the Senate. Last year's congressional 'supercommittee' of 12 legislators charged with reducing the federal deficit has one white woman and not a single woman of color." Do you think women are less enthusiastic to participate in politics? If so, why do you think that is?
8. In 2009, President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, what is your opinion towards this move in legislature and do you think it is a step in the right direction for women?
9. The article talks about how women have “a lower glass ceiling” still today, even though women now outnumber in college.  Do you agree with this fact?
10. As you know, women have come a very long way in the past century.  Do you believe that we have reached a time of true equality yet? Explain

Clarissa Campbell: While Jennifer interviewed the male for his perspective on this dilemma, I spoke to a woman and sought to see her point of view on the issue at hand. (we have yet to conduct the interview with the female due to current let downs but have provided the questions for our outline)

1. As a woman in today’s workforce, have you personally experienced or observed others experiencing any inequalities or discriminations in your work environment?  If so, can you explain?
2. What is your point of view in regards to women holding high positions in the corporate world?
3. According to this article, women in general, “are paid an average of 80 cents for every dollar paid to men,” and “the pay gap is even larger for women of color with black women earning about 70 cents, and Latinas about 60 cents, of every dollar paid to all men.”  Were you aware of this fact?  Why do you feel that there is such a big price gap for the salaries of men and women, what is the reason behind it?
4. Do you feel that the pay gap between women and men will ever close or be resolved anytime soon?
5. What is your view on women having maternity leave and breastfeeding policies while working. Are you for it or against it?
6. According to this journal article, “Only 17 percent of its members are women. Between 1923 and 2011, only 28 women have chaired congressional committees, and only 45 women of color have ever served in Congress--just one in the Senate. Last year's congressional 'supercommittee' of 12 legislators charged with reducing the federal deficit has one white woman and not a single woman of color." Do you think women are less enthusiastic to participate in politics? If so, why do you think that is?
7. In 2009, President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, what is your opinion towards this move in legislature and do you think it is a step in the right direction for women?
8. The article talks about how women have “a lower glass ceiling” still today, even though women now outnumber in college.  Do you agree with this fact?
9. As you know, women have come a very long way in the past century.  Do you believe that we have reached a time of true equality yet? Explain
10. Many women still spend much of their time caring for family and household chores, and if employed, they are more likely to be in occupations that are “traditionally female occupations.”  In your opinion, is this simply their choice or an influence of the “gender roles” that are still assigned by todays society?

Jennifer Lopez: As you can see our respondents were very enthusiastic about their opinions on this topic and had no problems expressing it. So now we leave you guys with this thought; what is your opinion on women in the business? Should they be allowed to have maternity leave when the time comes or should they be expected to be at work like the rest of the men if they want to be treated equal. Will the pay gap ever between males and females ever dwindle down to nothing? Thanks again for listening ladies and gentlemen this is Jennifer Lopez
Clarissa Campbell: And Clarissa Campbell signing off. Have a great day of thinking folks.

Podcast Matt and Austin

Austin: What's up guys this is our podcast for paper number two. We will be talking about the unequal justice system that we have set up in America.

Matt: That is right Austin so the journal that we read was written by Steven Seidenberg who is a trail lawyer so when it comes to the court system there is almost no one better to ask. In short the article talked about when it comes to the legal system those who have the most money also have a better chance of getting off their charges.

Austin: That is how I feel as well Matt. And we got an interview from one of your professors who is teaching this very topic.

Matt: Correct so we did not do a face to face interview but we did email him and he responded accordingly.

Austin: Alright so which one of us are going to play the interviewer and interviewee?

Matt: Why don't we flip a coin for it ?

Austin: Sounds like a plan.

(Flip coin)

 Other then the American legal system, what other system would you want to use if the situation presented itself?
The education system.

 Would you suggest that more financial aid be presented for the use of free legal services in the American legal system?
 Of course. I think we discussed this issue a few weeks ago. Money is always an important thing which will be factored in preserving everyone's equal access to the legal system.

 Compared to that of the American legal system, which other system do you feel has the same or greater quality of the American system?
I would say the education system, too. Although the politicians claim that everyone has an equal access to the education system, racial, gender, and other injustices have caused a disproportionate outcome especially for those oppressed majority. Personally, I think this situation is pretty similar to that of the legal system.

Journal

So I am not sure what do about this blog but I did find an interesting journal about law school and their goals. It was interesting because it said that law school try to teach law as a social science and that they are beginning to focus on the teachings of one guy. I don't know how this relates but it was good, the link is below.
http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/docview/1023395491/139D705E7C71A577BAE/1?accountid=4485

Journal article notes

My partner and I chose to write about an article found in the Women in Business Journal (Kansas City, MO).  The article is called “HOW far HAVE women COME?” by Leigh Elmore.  It is about how, although women have come a very long way over the last century, there are still many inequalities.  I think the purpose is to inform women of what these inequalities are and also to persuade women to do something, such as vote in the upcoming election, in order to push for a change and make a difference.  The audience was mostly targeted toward women, but as for the informing purpose, it can be said that the target was the general working public.  The genre is a report.  I don’t think that it is arguing for anything or analyzing the information.  It is simply reporting statistics and facts for the reader to analyze and interpret.  The author’s stance seems to be opinionated stating that “the fact that we want to discuss that Mayer is pregnant shows that we have much more progress to make,” (Leigh Elmore, 2012).  My initial response was shock.  I had an idea that there was still much inequality, especially in the military, but I had no idea that there was not only inequality in treatment, but also documented statistics showing a substantial pay gap and very low percentage of women in top positions.  Some reasons I came up with that were for this article were all the cited statistics and quotes from women of authority.  Things that could be negative are that it is somewhat one-sided and therefore possibly biased.  The first paragraph consisted of a story about how Marissa Mayer became the new CEO of Yahoo, but all people want to talk about is the fact that she is pregnant and whether or not she will work through her maternity leave.  The rest of the article if almost fully made up of quotations from people of authority such as the U.S. Labor Secretary, Hilda L. Solis and the ABWA Executive Director, Rene Street and several other important sources.  There is not a whole lot of input from the author though.

The journal I have read was a journal that talks about the issues of the unequal and the unfair legal system that we have in the United States. In a recent report the U.S. has one of the greatest legal systems in the world. There is a catch to this great legal system which is the ability to afford the cost of the system and if you cannot have the afford then you are out of luck as a person. This is a terrible fact in this society because it shows that there is no justice for the little guy and all the benefits go to the big fat cats that can afford what ever they want to do. This shows that if a little guy has to go up against a big fat cat then the little man has to go up against a huge display of legal support and power that will likely end up in not winning the debate and loosing everything that he/she has that they needed to sell just to afford to stand up to them. This goes to en tale that lower groups cant have the same justice rights as a person in the higher social class. With this realization this shows a distinct culture shift with the distance between the lower class and a higher social class with the disappearance of a middle class.