ABSTRACT

Journalism's gender problem just got worse with Jill Abramson's firing', the New Republic wrote a day after the dismissal. Gender job inequity is not restricted to the newspaper industry. In its 2015 annual review, the United States (US) Department of Labour reported that women earn on average 83 percent of what men earn, and only 5 percent of Fortune 500 CEO's were women. Gender identity spills into the workplace, forcing women to resolve conflicts between home life and work life. Lewis Coser and Rokoff contend that men avoid role conflicts because of the standard expectation that prioritizes employment over family obligations. According to the US Bureau of Labour Statistics, in 1970 about 38 percent of women comprised the overall labour force compared with 62 percent of men. In 2012, Linda Williams Favero and Renee Guarriello Heath set out to research the generational work perspective of four generations of women who were intersecting in the current workforce.