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Women are still less paid than men in all countries throughout the world, according to the ILO, and the salary disparity has only slightly decreased over the previous decade. By the year 2000 women in most nations, as compared to one-third in 1990, constitute a minimum of one-half of the workforce. A comparable improvement in women’s living or working conditions rarely has matched their mass entering active economic life, the ILO states. Inequality in treatment marks almost every element of the professional life of women, starting with wages and prospects for jobs and access to decision-making and executive roles. The main focus of women’s jobs is a small number of sectors (especially services, where access to jobs is easier but wages are often lower and job security minimal). Even in such areas, women are grouped in the lower stages.
The informal sector employs a particularly high proportion of women in underdeveloped nations. These positions do not provide the full-time benefits of official employment, including stable salaries, suitable conditions of work health and safety, safety at work, and social protection. There is little evidence that the situation will soon improve in the absence of governmental measures for improving women’s profit and job opportunities. Men hold the highest position in companies and institutions worldwide. The ILO predicts that it would take 475 years to reach parity between men and women at the high level of management worldwide at this time. The segregation of jobs is a key factor in the pay gender divide. 75% of women work in historically low-paying, service-sector jobs in the developed countries; 15% to 20% work in manufacturing; and approximately 5% in agriculture. 80% of the workforce is female in many areas where export processing in industrialized countries is labor-intensive, low-cost production. There’s a global epidemic of sexual harassment. In polls carried out in industrialized countries, 15 to 30 percent of working women questioned have been frequently and severely harassed – undesired sexual abuse, punching, ugly statements, and unsolicited sexual favor demand. These degrading and offensive situations can lead to emotional and physical stress and associated diseases that reduce morale and productivity.Earlier women were not even allowed to step outside their homes alone so just forget about education or working outside. Our society failed as a whole to provide women equality and to eradicate patriarchy from the lives of women. Women weren’t allowed to work outside their homes but the times have changed and it’s not just a man’s world anymore. Women are making an impact in every field and they are leading in every way. There is no place where we find women any less than men. So, why do women typically earn less and have less secure jobs? Why don’t we give them the well-deserved positions that society has always ignored just because of their gender? The question is why?
Women were always supposed to work at home and the fact that women are working outside homes is still not digested by society so women are not paid equally. When a woman is seen doing a job, the one question that pops up in everyone’s mind is “How will she manage?”. People start assuming that a working woman won’t be able to manage her personal and professional life and will be bad in either of them. People start judging her and make a prior conception that she is a bad wife/mother/daughter-in-law/employee etc. Women also may face career problems because of stereotypes that they are more family-oriented and less committed to their careers. Women earn only one-tenth of the world’s income despite working two-thirds because of the concept of sexism and patriarchy and the persisting problem of societal stereotypes associated with them. Women are considered vulnerable to doing hard work. They are considered emotional and weak to take up the positions that men get. The concept of a man working outside and being a breadwinner for the family while a woman should work inside and take care of the household is still prevalent in most households. When it comes to the workplace, sometimes there are traces of women falling prey to misogyny. When men witness women doing better than them, they hardly accept a woman’s leadership and as a result, she is required to work in a tactful environment where her opinions do not matter as much and she gets paid less than her male colleague. This needs to stop as soon as possible. We need to understand that women are capable enough to be the best in their work-life. Women have the ability to wear many hats while balancing careers, households, and other jobs so discriminating against them for their gender is purely stupid and paying less than what they deserve is completely illogical and a threat to the growth of the world. So yes, women typically earn less and hold less secure jobs than men because of this society and its illogical perspectives.As women enter a workplace they are already entering an unequal landscape that has been traditionally believed to be ruled by men. There is prejudice treatment against them at the time of hiring. They are judged on the basis of their marital status. And it is not even a surprise that they are paid much less than men despite being on the same position and doing the same kind of job. Pay raise or training opportunities are some other issues faced by women at work. Whereas, men dominate the highest corporate and institutional positions everywhere in the world. The ILO estimates that, at the present rate of progress world-wide, it would take 475 years for parity to be achieved between men and women in top level managerial and administrative positions.
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