For the Institutional Artifact Project the institution I would be talking about is businesses , the artifacts is promotions within businesses and/or pay rates. The three concepts I am using to support my writing is Systematic privilege/ systematic inequality, Institutionalized discrimination and Social structure or structure of power. “Institutionalized discrimination refers to the unjust and discriminatory mistreatment of an individual or group of individuals by society and its institutions as a whole, through unequal selection or bias, intentional or unintentional; as opposed to individuals making a conscious choice to discriminate.” Women are more likely to be ‘top performers,’ but less likely to be the boss. Why is that? If women work harder why aren’t we getting the recognition deserved. Institutionalized discrimination creates systematic inequalities. Systematic inequalities are “patterns of differential Group treatment repeated across time even in the absence of overt discrimination.” CEOs or people in headquarters of a company are mainly men, white men to be specific. Women’s median earnings are lower than men’s in nearly every occupation. The gender pay gap or gender wage gap is the average difference between the remuneration for men and women who are working. Women are generally considered to be paid less than men.
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I like this general idea. However, “promotions within businesses and/or pay rates” is not an artifact. Perhaps you could find an article about gender differences in promotions and pay rates that could serve as your artifact (they are available). Or you could find a company policy and analyze that – or a company annual report that provides this data. I think you have a good instinct, but we need to find you something concrete to analyze. Let me know what you think. If you can’t find anything, let me know and I might have an article you can use.