Gender pay gap, how and why?
Let me first tell you the basic what’s a gender pay gap ? The gender pay gap or gender wage gap is an average calculation between working men and women wages. And sadly it’s to be informed that yes, there’s approx two-third of working women but their wages are about one-tenth and that’s all.
Now let me say what isn’t known to many, there’s two different number of pay gap: non-adjusted and adjusted one.
Now, what’s the reason, we’re having for a gender pay gap?
First, difference in jobs or industries: according to surveys it’s seen that most of the working women are working under some under-paying company, or there’s more men in higher rank than women.
Every women must have been told at least once in her life like, why are you choosing so much stressful and labourers job, you’re a girl, go easy!
Yes unfortunately that’s what our society think of the jobs, according to them it’s not the liking or excitement, it’s about what is more suited to you. Major of the women works in the mostly women-based works like home health aide, nursing, child care worker, teacher and most of them are not highly paying jobs. Thus women got a large gap between payment.
Second, society leads us women to not exploring, women should have a calm, decent, settled life which is a bit different from men society somehow. Yes of course everyone wants a settled job, but in the process of failing, men got much more time and thus much experience which lead to a healthy and highly paying job. While women agreed on settl down soon and getting married. Which makes them lack of experienced.
With these, there’s a lot of house hold duties and mother-child care, family care waiting for women that they can’t serve extra hours for job, which men can easily do. This is another reason of getting under-paid.
In terms of physical labour, women are considered to be weak and inferior. So not every institution and field work accept much women workers.
And last but not the least, there’s this ongoing gender discrimination process. Women are continuously getting under payed despite of giving same amount of effort. It’s even larger for women with colors. As we know though the amendment of 377, LGBTQ community service is not taken equally important and it’s an explicit truth of our community.
Now why’s it so important to discuss? Being underpaid is an issue which is leading the fact that women being dependent, and economically targeting to lower female workers and thus a lower GDP.
Meanwhile, there’s have to be a cure. First, women have to be informed about their rights, equal pay for equal job. Second, we should lead and inspire our women to get higher education and thus getting post on a higher rank. And lastly, we should consider the problem of LGBTQ community and try to resolve it, they are a part of our society and none should be discriminated.