User talk:Scott nielsen/sandbox

This article about aging had a lot of issues. For one, not all of the links worked. that is an issue because these were the links to the sources and without the sources, people can not check to make sure the information is all factual. The article seems pretty neutral in my opinion. Not all of the citations worked either, some of the links did not work. There was some information that was not relevant to the article and there was also information that was not cited. Some of the information was also out of date and that is not good for a wikipedia article, all of the information should be frequently updated if anything changes. In the talk page some people are referencing some of the issues about this article that I explained. ````

article proposal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescent_sexuality_in_the_United_States

2 things that I would do to help fix this article is I would add more relevant and new information to the topic of adolescent sexuality because some of the information seemed very outdated. The second thing that I would do is check all of the links and provide my own sources if any of the current sources were either inaccurate or no longer relevant.```` — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scott nielsen (talk • contribs) 22:51, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

article 2 proposal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_in_the_American_workforce

This article had some issues. One thing that I would fix in this article is I would add more factors that contribute to the aging workforce that the author seems to have left out. The second thing that I would do to help this article is I would fact check all of the data and if any of it is outdated, I would correct it with data from today. I believe that I would prefer to do this article over the teen sexuality article because this article seems more interesting for one and also needs more help than the first article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scott nielsen (talk • contribs) 22:58, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

wiki article proposal ( motherhood penalty)
Something I would like to add to this article is I would like to expand on the discrimination of women in the workplace section and also the wage gap section. A good article that states many facts on the topic is http://gap.hks.harvard.edu/getting-job-there-motherhood-penalty. This article gives exact numbers in the wage gap and also gives reasonings as to why women are discriminated against in the work place. The second article that I will be citing is https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/upshot/the-gender-pay-gap-is-largely-because-of-motherhood.html. This article goes into depth explaining why women are paid less and also talks about hoe even women with higher education than men can still be paid less. The final article that I will be citing is https://www.nbcnews.com/better/careers/motherhood-penalty-can-affect-women-who-never-even-have-child-n548511. This article states that the motherhood penalty is not only for mothers. The motherhood penalty is experienced by all women because men just assume that they can do more because they are men.

sections that I would like to revise
Many sections already exist in my wiki article. Two sections that I believe are in good standing and do not need to be changed are the human capital theory and the work effort theory sections. In the causes section, I would like to add more causes that cause this because I believe that the author left out some. I believe that in the economic theory section that I could add a new economic theory that the author did not think of. The theory that I would like to include is the theory that men are the breadwinners of the home therefore women do not need as much money. Finally, in the sociological theories section, I would like to add one more sociological theory and also add more detail to the existing theories. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scott nielsen (talk • contribs) 04:17, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

week 7 assignment
I would like to add to the economic theories category the theory that women are not paid as much as men because generally men are seen as the breadwinners of the household and therefore should be paid more because they support the family. This is very untrue because in the case of a single mother, she is most likely the main breadwinner of the family. Also I would like to add a new category with the exact dollar amount of difference. My source states that for every dollar That a man makes, a woman makes $0.71 according to a recent study done by the National Partnership for Women and Children. I would also like to add a category called negative effects of the motherhood penalty. One of those effects being that women are very discouraged from having children because they fear being behind everybody else when they return to work or even possibly being replaced by someone else. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scott nielsen (talk • contribs) 23:09, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Week 8 assignment
I would like to add a new piece of information to the “causes” paragraph. On cause of the motherhood penalty that he did not talk about is the main reason why there is a wage gap in the first place. He forgot to mention that the real reason there is a wage gap is because women have more responsibilities on top of their job than men do and women are perceived to put work second and their family first. For this reason companies believe that women are paid less than men. Source: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/women-gender-pay-gap_us_56ab93b2e4b00b033aaecdf6

I would like to add something to the “effects” paragraph as well. I would like to add that one of the effects of the motherhood penalty is that single moms who are generally the breadwinners for their family are paid less but a single man who would also be the breadwinner is paid more. They both have the same responsibilities when outside of work and a family to take care of, yet there is still a wage gap.

I would like to add new information to the “Hiring penalty for motherhood” as well. The fact that I would like to add is that mothers were offered a 7.9% lower starting salary than non-mothers. That number is 8.6% lower than the recommended starting salary for fathers. Mothers are 6 times less likely than non-mothers to be recommended for hire. Source: http://gap.hks.harvard.edu/getting-job-there-motherhood-penalty

I would like to add something else to the “effects” paragraph. One negative effect of the motherhood penalty is that it highly discourages women to have children if they already part of a workplace. The article states that after women announce that they are expecting that they will be taken off of current projects and not given very many projects in the future. Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/better/careers/motherhood-penalty-can-affect-women-who-never-even-have-child-n548511

Another piece of information that I would like to add to the “effects” paragraph is that women are not taken as serious as men in the workplace. Women are also unfairly penalized in performance reviews. The wage gap is the biggest at the top of the income scale. Source: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/women-gender-pay-gap_us_56ab93b2e4b00b033aaecdf6 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scott nielsen (talk • contribs) 23:56, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

peer review~ Scott nielsen
I feel like I need to check all of my sources and make sure that they are accurate and up to date. Also I need to make sure that they can be accessed by anybody and not just me. I believe that I need to expand on some of the ideas that have already been touched on in the article. I have found some new information that has to do with the human capital theory section and I will include it so that the reader can better understand the points that I am trying to make in that section. Finally, I think it would be helpful if I added actual numbers when I talk about the wage gap. I would also like to expand on all of the sources that I include so that the reader understands better why I included those sources.