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0px Arial; color: #454545; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; min-height: 20.0px} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Equal pay for equal workThe media has been reporting for a very long time, that men are getting paid significantly more than women for the same hours in the same position.This isn’t fair and the pay gap should be closed for many reasons. This is disadvantage for females because it is a life purpose that women bear the burden of having children and nothing can change this fact. Employees are bias when employing males so they don’t have to pay women the same rate or deal with covering maternity leave.
I believe as a female, the gender pay gap is a problem because women can do everything a male can do and work as effectively. Equal pay for equal work, doesn’t sound unreasonable. It seems to me that in the workforce, a woman is a person just as a man is a person, if that person gets the job done right, he or she should be paid for doing so. The influence of gender on this issue is very curious as to why it is even a factor in the first place. The biggest question is why employers are still enabling this workplace behaviour and discrimination in the 21st century.
Women are worth less than men when entering the workforce after completing the same university degree. Men and women attend the same kind of university, pick the same major and accept the same kind of job, but on average, the woman will still earn 82 cents to every dollar that a man earns. It is recognised that women who have maternity leave are more likely to return to work after their child’s birth. Which means companies don’t have to waste money and energy finding replacement workers. Some employers are refusing to paymaternity leave, this may disadvantage single mothers or lower income parents who can’t afford to take unpaid time off from work in order to have children, which means some women are forced to choose between having children, working full time, or leaving work and putting a financial strain on their family.
Many women can’t afford to do so, which effectively robs them of their choice. How would you feel if you had to choose between having a job or having a family? Women should be guaranteed paid maternity leave because they are not only taking care of themselves, but now they are making a family to be responsible for. A baby is incapable of taking care of themselves. Entering the work force in approximately two years, it gives me hope for a possible breakthrough solution to this problem. I wish to be treated equally when I start my career. I hope for us women to keep on proving the decade old stereotypes to be false to accomplish just as much if not more than men. To continue striving for the best for ourselves, as well as stick to our feminine nature that makes us so special and unique to society.
Time is the only answer right now and time will also show the results of hard work, to be equal one must demand equality. At the end of the day it is how it is and no matter how many times we say it’s not fair, it’s not us making the decisions it’s the employers. We can speak out loud and the more that speak about how this is disadvantaging us and maternity leave is putting a stop on us, the higher chance we have to change this gender pay gap. i believe this shouldn’t even be of concern or raised its wrong and its shocking to see this is still relevant in our world.
I hope I can watch out community grow as I get older and come to realisations I hope I see this change in years to come.