Research Notes

Step 1:
What topic are you researching for your position paper?
Gender Inequality
Step 2:
Be sure you are using reliable research-based sources of information.
Step 3:
Keep track of your source.
1. Author:
2. Title of article and/or website: International labor organization
3. Copy and paste URL (for your own retrieving purposes):
http://www.ilo.org/washington/areas/gender-equality-in-the-workplace/WCMS_15949
6/lang--en/index.htm
4. Publisher and Publication Date:
5. Date Accessed:
Step 4:
Read the article and take notes. If it helps you, print the source so you can annotate and
underline the text. You should use quotes if directly quoting or paraphrase information in your
own words.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO), in a recent report shows that in 2010
women constituted 59 percent of the low-wage workforce. Less-educated women were
more likely than less-educated men to work part-timeon average, 29 percent of
women and 15 percent of men worked part-time in 2010.
Also, according to the GAO report, single woman households had the lowest total
annual income of all households, averaging about $27,000. Fifty-seven percent of the
household income (or about $15,000) came from their personal wage and salary
earnings.
The remaining $12,000 came from other sources, such as government benefits and
other household members earnings. Without income from these other sources, the
low-wage single mother households would be well below the poverty level of $22,314
(or $10.73 per hour, full-time) for a family of four.
In terms of women in leadership positions, in 2009 only 24 percent of CEOs in the US
were women and they earned 74.5 percent as much as male CEOs (BLS 2010 p.9).
Also, companies with 25% or more women in leadership positions as Corporate
Officers averaged 13 times more philanthropic donations than those with none

Step 5: Main Idea/Summary of Source

In a few sentences, summarize the main idea and relevance of the above information for your
position paper. How does it help you answer the question, How real is the American Dream?
Remember you are answering this question from the perspective of all Americans.
The article takes focus on some of the main issues with women in a workplace it touches on
some of the issues or unusual things about women in the workplace and how they are not
treated fairly. Most of these issues being economic and this obviously ties into our essential
question. The way I can discuss this or argue this is that if they aren't getting paid the same
then how is that equal? There doesnt seem to be reason that they a being payed less but for
some reason they are which in turn will make it harder for single mothers to live out the
american dream.