Equal Pay For Women
As the world advances, women continue to fight for their rights against gender discrimination across all nations. Though some nations have been slower in realizing equal treatment for women in the society, unless otherwise, all women, black or white want to live in a world where gender equality is given a high priority. If the truth on the ground is to go by, women hardly receive the pay that they deserve across nations in the whole world. Even if the world pretends to be doing well on this issue, statistics are not promising; this economic problem, which takes the effort of many women rights activists to keep it check, is worse in third world countries compared to first and second world countries. This research paper seeks to understand the reasons behind unequal pay between men and women, the policies governing this gender issue, the places it is most prevalent, the facts on the ground, what is being done about it and proposes plausible solutions to this problem.
According to an anonymous writer, for a woman to make earnings equal to that a man makes in a year, she has to work for over 14 months. Statistics have shown that women rake in not more than 85 percent of the earnings that their male colleagues get for the same job rank. It is, however, imperative to note that this is realized behind the back of most women who are the victims; it usually comes by shock to women victimized that they actually earn lower than men yet the work they do is relatively the same or even more compared to that their male colleagues do. Giving women unfair pay has been proved to be a great economic setback especially in the third world countries where the ramifications and repercussions of pay inequality are at a shocking level. Not everyone affords to sit back and watch as this unfair treatment continues; many organizations are trying to fight for women rights and establish a world that can see women get their fair share in employment and other monetary issues.
One of the most common causes of disparity between the amount of earnings that women and men get for the work they do is culture. In first and second world countries, the culture has slowly been phased out by technology and education. In these regions, women have good jobs and some have even ventured into businesses that were ventured by men alone in the recent past. This population has been exposed to factors that have seen them advance from one step to another with their thoughts about women changing for the better as education takes its toll in them and technology becomes more and more sophisticated. Moreover, in these countries, women are able to express their views openly without being disregarded by leaders, men and other groups who continue to pull women issues behind.
In the first world countries, women are well protected by the constitution and some are even involved in drafting the laws that govern their countries; in the modern world, several judges, lawyers and prosecutors are women
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