Barriers Of Women For Women

It seems that women workers have reached a plateau in society. In order for women to be respected (as men are) in the workplace there needs to be a redistribution of domestic and family work. It’s acceptable now for women to work; but this acceptance into the workforce has not drastically changed what they, women, are expected to perform at home. There is no way for women to move forward to equality in pay if they are not recognized as contributers to their job (i.e. women are still expected to perform outside of work in the family setting as well in a way that men are only expected to perform at work and not at home).

Since the late 19th century, women have been struggling with the issue of not receiving the same amount of pay as men. The gender wage gap was not seen as a major issue until the 1960s, however, and unfortunately, it is still a major issue in our world today. (cite source). In the early 1900’s, World War I caused many men to leave their families behind to fight for their country. As a result of this, women had to take the responsibility of the male roles in the workforce. Women were expected to do the same jobs as men did before they were deployed, but were paid less to do so (cite source). This problem still exists in our world today. In 2011, it was proven that the weekly earnings for a female full-time worker is $684, compared

Furthermore, gender inequality is rising instead of declining. For all female workers, (including people who are working part time), the wage gap has risen from 19.6% to 19.7%. This highlights that society is moving backwards and is becoming more intolerant; is this the reputation we want for our country? Later in life women are less likely to study engineering or science later in life. This demonstrates women being underestimated and perhaps society is discouraging them into aiming for jobs that have been predominantly male in the past. Schools show that (early on in life) women have, statistically, far more potential than men, so what is it that subdues this? Social attitudes concerning women and their potential essentially hold a certain level of accountability for this. Not only does this result in women being oppressed and not achieving their full potential, it also devalues society as we are deprived of their aptitudes.

Women have always been recognized as less than men. Not only do women earn 88 cents for every dollar made by men, a woman of colour, race, or disability earn much less. Black women earn about 63 cents for every dollar, native women earn about 53 cents, women with disabilities earn about 73 cents while men with disabilities earn 76 cents. Paulette Senior, the president and CEO of the Canadian Women’s Foundation, explains in an article how women are at a risk of falling into poverty due to the gender gap and its low earnings. Women are also “less able to save for their retirement and are sometimes forced to make a choice between safety and staying in abusive relationships” because the gender gap doesn’t allow women to feel empowered. In Australia, women are experiencing mental health issues such as anxiety and depression due to the gender gap. Although the gender gap isn’t causing health issues for women in Canada, who’s to say it isn’t a possibility that could occur in the near future if the gender gap doesn’t close. Closing the gender gap would create countless of benefits for our society. For instance, women would be able to feel empowered if they earn the same amount of money of the men they work with. Closing the gap would also allow successful, intelligent women get the earnings that they deserve which would make them feel appreciated and respected. Our society and the social aspect of our world

For example, in the United States there is still a fair amount of gender inequality. This inequality appears most clearly in the form of the wage gap. In 2015, women working full-time made only 80 cents for every dollar earned by men. (Pay Equity, n.d.) There are a few reasons for this pay gap including the fact that women tend to choose lower paying jobs than men. The problem

From the beginning of time there has been a distinction between the accepted roles of males and females. For ages men have been viewed as the family provider and women as the family caretaker. Although new roles developed with different eras, the same ideals have held for centuries now. Since the late 1800’s, the idea of “feminism,” or the social, political, and economic equality for females, has begun to shake the foundations of gender roles. It is 2015, and women have made tremendous strides to establish equality for themselves in a world dominated by male leaders. However, women have not been able to conquer the wage gap. The gender wage gap refers to women being paid on average 78% of what men do. Although the gap is closing, it is still

However, I didn’t understand that race and race-ethnicity and location played such big role as well. Saudi Arabia’s has the biggest wage gap where women earn 16 percent of men’s income and Hungary has the smallest gap where women can earn 94 percent of men’s salaries (Ginger World pg. 182). In the U.S women earn about 81 percent of men's income. This is an improvement from the 1970s when women only earned 51 percent. However, this is a result mainly of men’s wage galling instead of women gaining (Gendered Worlds pg. 185). Women are also facing the “glass ceiling” effect, in which they cannot catch up to the higher level of management due to artificial barriers based on attitude or organizational bias (Genders Worlds qtd Martin pg. 187.) Women also face “sticky floors” where there are in a way stuck doing certain low-paying jobs. For example, women working in maquiladoras in Mexico (Gendered worlds pg. 188). Token women are also looked down Upson whereas men find preferential treatment and actually face rescuer to move up (Gendered Worlds pg. 185). The wage gap between women and men had not only resulted from discrimination, but also from backhanded tactics which seem to lift women, but are actually putting them down, gender segregation of the labor market, and job ladders (Gendered Worlds pg. 193-195.) In the work force, there are various factors which impede women from being equal with men. In reticent at the end of employment, there are also differences which hinder women. Sinc3 men on average make more than women they are able to get the maximum benefits and they also average 35 years of employment while women average only 12 years which also cuts down their eligibility for funds (Gendered worlds qtd Harington-Meyer pg.

The fact of the matter is that gender roles, although not as prominent as they once were, still have a heavy impact on how society’s functions are dispersed and divided up. There is no denying that a double standard and gender roles were once how everything was decided, but what some deny is that there is not a way to overcome them. For instance, the argument of women getting paid less than men for the same occupation is totally illogical because if women get paid less than men for the same job, wouldn’t large companies just hire women if they could pay them less and still get equal work? But that’s not the case according to Kevin Miller and his article “The Big Number: 80 Percent” in the magazine Economic Justice:

Today, women are underprivileged as compared to men. The participation of women in different sectors of economic and politic is very less. Most of top positions holder in almost all agencies are held by men. The human society has been male dominant since ancient times and that view is still prevalent today where male considers themselves superior to female.

According to Hill (2016), with attention to male dominance in the workforce, women working full time were paid just 79 percent of what men were paid. This caused a 21 percent wage gap between the two genders in 2014. The gap occurred since the 1970s, as the women started to be more involved in education and jobs. This, perhaps caused the men to feel inferior about themselves. So the only way they could feel powerful, is to raise their wages against the women. The wage gap appears less likely to recede over time. Conforming to Macionis (2014), “In any field, the greater a job’s income prestige, the more likely it is to be held by a man.” (p. 316). Macionis also stated that there is this invisible barrier blocking women’s careers all the time (p. 316). This is depressing to know that men will always have an upper-hand in jobs that keep women from pursuing high-paying jobs and having accomplishments. The type of work women are mostly hired in, is

"Women do two thirds of the world’s work...Yet they earn only one tenth of the world’s income and own less than one percent of the world’s property. They are among the poorest of the world’s poor." –Barber B. Conable Jr, President, World Bank

“For every dollar a man receives, the woman receives 77 cents of that dollar (Female Power)”. The difference is not drastic, however; women have been fighting for this specific right since 1963, the Equal Pay Day. The Equal Pay act was implemented to stop the discrimination against male and female, however the changes were made. Furthermore, women who are working in lower paying fields are not being represented as they should. The problem only involves the highest paying groups such as law, business and medicine. In “The Wealth of Nations” by Adam Smith, Smith claims that “The whole of the advantage and the disadvantages of the different employments of labour and stock must, in the same neighbourhood, be either perfectly equal or continually tending to equality”, equality being shown as an important aspect to our lives. Another example used in The Wealth of Nations is on page 107, “Fifthly, the wages of labour in different employments vary according to the probability or improbability of success in them.”giving a clear definition as to why women in lower paying fields are being as much as they are. It all matters onto how much profit the job succeeds. Women working with males is not the only problem. “A World Without Work” by Derek Thompson gives specifics details as to why the world is becoming more

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