When I first got an enrollment in Limkokwing (LUCT), I was very delighted and took it as a onetime opportunity. It was like a dream come true! Moreover, having an opportunity to study the course I wanted was the icing on the cake!
I remember the very first day when I came to LUCT, i was petrified. I have never studied in the environment where people from different countries studied under the same roof. I was scared to death but was optimistic about the knowledge, opportunity and career I was heading for..
Whenever people asked me what I was studying at college? I said-“ media and communication” and all people could think of was writing and journalism. I often tried explaining to them that there are more components to it than those two. To be honest, writing never appealed to me, I always thought I was a bad writer and not good with putting words together. When I was in the first semester, I never wanted to attend writing classes, I felt lost and incapable in my class. There was constant encouragement from Denise and other family members but I thought that the art of words is just not my cup of tea!
When I started my second semester, I thought I might be able to get away with my writing class (honestly, nothing to do with lecturer) but my luck! On the very first day of the class, Denise gave us our assignment for the semester, it was to write a blog every week, journal every day and 3,000 words article. At first, I thought it would be very difficult and be in a trouble for being a horrible writer. I did not wanted to do any of the assignment at all. However, as time passed, and as I started writing, I found the game of words quiet interesting. All those researches for the blogs and article, pouring emotions on journal was an interesting game. I am proud of every piece I wrote.( I doubt about Denise enjoying it!). It was not as good as other fellow classmates but I enjoyed writing them. Today, I feel confident and part of this word game. This assignment helped me to put across my opinions, emotions, arguments, and thoughts in the form of words.
I really wish to keep up my writing spirit, as I now strongly believe that sometimes, the words on paper speak louder than your speech.
Monday, 10 May 2010
Monday, 3 May 2010
Reflection of Creativity
It is an obvious thing that we all work hard and spend our blood and sweat to get success in life. No matter whatever we do, we always want to be successful.
Today, I would like to share the video below, where a famous American writer Elizabeth Gilbert, shares her fears and approaches towards the reflection of creativity in her life and work. I am inspired by this video, as being a communication student where things just happens instantly, it sometimes get difficult to keep up with the pace of time. The way she revealed the anxiety we go through in the success procedure is what every other person experiences.
“Everyone of my book have killed me a little more.” – Norman Mailer. I agree to what Mailer said as it is amazing how we get caught in the vicious circle of success that every time we achieve one, we are scared of loosing it and want more and more.. Especially in the creative process, as we are constantly thinking about different things, sometimes we get brilliant ideas but to put it in practice might not be possible always, different pessimist thoughts surrounds us constantly and held things up.
The words like creativity, success have become quiet intimidating these days, as we are constantly compared to the previous art of work and are judged on that basis. It is not always possible to keep up the height of perfection or creativity. Hence, at the end of the day, the only thing we can do is our best and leave rest for time to take care of.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html
Source: www.ted.com
Today, I would like to share the video below, where a famous American writer Elizabeth Gilbert, shares her fears and approaches towards the reflection of creativity in her life and work. I am inspired by this video, as being a communication student where things just happens instantly, it sometimes get difficult to keep up with the pace of time. The way she revealed the anxiety we go through in the success procedure is what every other person experiences.
“Everyone of my book have killed me a little more.” – Norman Mailer. I agree to what Mailer said as it is amazing how we get caught in the vicious circle of success that every time we achieve one, we are scared of loosing it and want more and more.. Especially in the creative process, as we are constantly thinking about different things, sometimes we get brilliant ideas but to put it in practice might not be possible always, different pessimist thoughts surrounds us constantly and held things up.
The words like creativity, success have become quiet intimidating these days, as we are constantly compared to the previous art of work and are judged on that basis. It is not always possible to keep up the height of perfection or creativity. Hence, at the end of the day, the only thing we can do is our best and leave rest for time to take care of.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html
Source: www.ted.com
Monday, 19 April 2010
WE...US..OURSELVES..
In one of the modules, our lecturer asked us to write an essay about “ourselves”. Who we are? Our past? Our aims? And where we think, we would be in future? The topic seemed very simple, silly and very easy to us. We all picked out pens to write our story, but stared at the paper for 10 minutes and still could not write a word on ourselves. How stupid and weird is it that we could not write a single sentence on us. When asked to write about others we can write thousands of words but when it comes to ourselves, we need such a long time. Why? Is it because we never cared about us? Or is it because we left other people to judge who we are??
By the end of the class we were able to scribble some of our “thoughts” on ourselves. We all opened our sentences, with our names and then saying that people think, I am outstanding, confident, beautiful, creative …blah blah blah but none of us said, who WE think we are? We judged ourselves on what people said to us.
While talking about our past, we all talked about our culture, customs, family. It was nice to hear and observe that we still believe in family values. But it was a shock how people still believe in imposing cultures and its values in people without thinking about their personal desires. Someone once said, we are all born free but are chained afterwards. I highly believe in this statement because no matter how educated we think we are, there is always something or the other that draws back our steps. Is it us who created that chains or is it the circumstances that compels us to be in such circle?
When I was at school, (millions of years back!) my teacher asked us to write an essay about our aims in life. I still remember, there were 40 students in class and all of us had a same aim in life; “Doctor”. We got very good grades for writing such an aspiring essay however, it is funny that out of 40, only two of the students are studying medical science. Although we were different people, we had similar aims because that is what we were shown by other people. Some of my friends believed in this aim for a long time as it was imposed on them, it took them a lot of time and effort to change this “so called aim” into something they wanted to do in life.
No matter how much we think, we are independent and sensible enough to make a decision on our personal life or ourselves? We often seek for other people to tell us what to do? It is not wrong to seek help but it is wrong not to believe in us. It is wrong not to recognise own potentiality and capabilities.
I hope we start thinking about who we think we are and not on the base of others judgements. I hope next time, when any of us are asked to write about ourselves, we would not hesitate and write our own thoughts not what other says…Good luck!
By the end of the class we were able to scribble some of our “thoughts” on ourselves. We all opened our sentences, with our names and then saying that people think, I am outstanding, confident, beautiful, creative …blah blah blah but none of us said, who WE think we are? We judged ourselves on what people said to us.
While talking about our past, we all talked about our culture, customs, family. It was nice to hear and observe that we still believe in family values. But it was a shock how people still believe in imposing cultures and its values in people without thinking about their personal desires. Someone once said, we are all born free but are chained afterwards. I highly believe in this statement because no matter how educated we think we are, there is always something or the other that draws back our steps. Is it us who created that chains or is it the circumstances that compels us to be in such circle?
When I was at school, (millions of years back!) my teacher asked us to write an essay about our aims in life. I still remember, there were 40 students in class and all of us had a same aim in life; “Doctor”. We got very good grades for writing such an aspiring essay however, it is funny that out of 40, only two of the students are studying medical science. Although we were different people, we had similar aims because that is what we were shown by other people. Some of my friends believed in this aim for a long time as it was imposed on them, it took them a lot of time and effort to change this “so called aim” into something they wanted to do in life.
No matter how much we think, we are independent and sensible enough to make a decision on our personal life or ourselves? We often seek for other people to tell us what to do? It is not wrong to seek help but it is wrong not to believe in us. It is wrong not to recognise own potentiality and capabilities.
I hope we start thinking about who we think we are and not on the base of others judgements. I hope next time, when any of us are asked to write about ourselves, we would not hesitate and write our own thoughts not what other says…Good luck!
Monday, 12 April 2010
What do we think????
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.- Aldous Huxley.
This is the day and age, where people are gasping for success and would do anything to achieve it. Everybody claims to know everything, and to be confident and outstanding. It is a fact that some of the successful people in today’s world are exceptions, they have every ingredient of success, however, Is it necessary that if we are confident, we should have high self esteem as well? What is self esteem, why is it so important in this day and age??
Self esteem is a crucial constituent for success in life. Confidence is part of self esteem but it is not necessary that being confident means having high self esteem. People like celebrities and TV personalities might have confidence on stage but when they are out of their professional world they can have the lowest self esteem of all. So, what is self esteem? - Self esteem comes from latin word “to estimate” therefore, to estimate yourself or an opinion on yourself is what self esteem is all about. (Cambridge University counselling service)
Now let us see, how can we evaluate ourselves or where do we stand or how strong is our self esteem? Lets ask following questions to ourselves:
1) Do I like myself?
2) Do I think I am good human being?
3) Do I deserve happiness?
4) Do I deserve love?
If we answer “yes” to all these questions, without hesitation, then yes we have high self esteem and vice versa. It is us who we should believe, it is our state of mind and our belief that the people see in us. If we want love and respect in life, we should love and respect ourselves first. Before, we introduce ourselves to other’s we should recognise ourselves.
Sometimes, acknowledging ourselves can be taken in a negative way. People might name us boastful, arrogant or conceited. It is obvious that with all these nomenclature, our self esteem would get a quake. Emotions, state of mind, surroundings, relations… affects one’s life in a big way. However, if we change the negative criticism into a positive ego, it will help to boost our confidence, and success would kiss our destiny. The more success we get in life, the more, people estimate our ability, which sometimes might lead to failure as we might not live up to the expectations. We constantly judge, evaluate and compare ourselves with others. It is good to compare ourselves, as it boosts our confidence, however, sometimes the balls can roll in other side of the court.
Everything can be changed in this world, apart from the word “change” itself. People tend to change their lifestyles and believe to get adjusted in the society or this fast moving world. In this pressure, they forget the beauty of life, which can lead to low self esteem as, if we don’t enjoy ourselves, we won’t be able to keep others entertained. We should believe that we are able and can achieve things that we aimed for; it indeed does help people to change their perceptions towards us.
Therefore, it is all about loving, respecting, pampering and recognising ourselves. If we do not respect and love ourselves, no one would, if we do not think we are beautiful, nobody would, if we do not think we are capable, no one would, if we do not think we can, nobody would….So what do you think???
This is the day and age, where people are gasping for success and would do anything to achieve it. Everybody claims to know everything, and to be confident and outstanding. It is a fact that some of the successful people in today’s world are exceptions, they have every ingredient of success, however, Is it necessary that if we are confident, we should have high self esteem as well? What is self esteem, why is it so important in this day and age??
Self esteem is a crucial constituent for success in life. Confidence is part of self esteem but it is not necessary that being confident means having high self esteem. People like celebrities and TV personalities might have confidence on stage but when they are out of their professional world they can have the lowest self esteem of all. So, what is self esteem? - Self esteem comes from latin word “to estimate” therefore, to estimate yourself or an opinion on yourself is what self esteem is all about. (Cambridge University counselling service)
Now let us see, how can we evaluate ourselves or where do we stand or how strong is our self esteem? Lets ask following questions to ourselves:
1) Do I like myself?
2) Do I think I am good human being?
3) Do I deserve happiness?
4) Do I deserve love?
If we answer “yes” to all these questions, without hesitation, then yes we have high self esteem and vice versa. It is us who we should believe, it is our state of mind and our belief that the people see in us. If we want love and respect in life, we should love and respect ourselves first. Before, we introduce ourselves to other’s we should recognise ourselves.
Sometimes, acknowledging ourselves can be taken in a negative way. People might name us boastful, arrogant or conceited. It is obvious that with all these nomenclature, our self esteem would get a quake. Emotions, state of mind, surroundings, relations… affects one’s life in a big way. However, if we change the negative criticism into a positive ego, it will help to boost our confidence, and success would kiss our destiny. The more success we get in life, the more, people estimate our ability, which sometimes might lead to failure as we might not live up to the expectations. We constantly judge, evaluate and compare ourselves with others. It is good to compare ourselves, as it boosts our confidence, however, sometimes the balls can roll in other side of the court.
Everything can be changed in this world, apart from the word “change” itself. People tend to change their lifestyles and believe to get adjusted in the society or this fast moving world. In this pressure, they forget the beauty of life, which can lead to low self esteem as, if we don’t enjoy ourselves, we won’t be able to keep others entertained. We should believe that we are able and can achieve things that we aimed for; it indeed does help people to change their perceptions towards us.
Therefore, it is all about loving, respecting, pampering and recognising ourselves. If we do not respect and love ourselves, no one would, if we do not think we are beautiful, nobody would, if we do not think we are capable, no one would, if we do not think we can, nobody would….So what do you think???
Sunday, 28 March 2010
Light in the other side of tunnel.....
In my previous blog, I showed light on the definition of gender pay gap and its critical reasons. However, in context to my previous findings, I would now like to focus on whether or not the gender pay gap have been lessen in these years?
In these ten years of time, lot of things have been changed. Life is much more convenient because of the emerging technologies, global warming is at high risk, redundancy rates and criminal rates are rising like the sea level, Cheryl Cole and Ashley are on the process to get divorced, Simon Cowell ultimately found his “soul mate” and at long last a female director has been acknowledged at the Oscar Awards, 2010(yippee!!! Well done woman!).And it seems like I just celebrated my 10th birthday yesterday (when I got a beautiful tiara!) but sadly I am 20 this year. Time is flying like never to return! However, the question is, Are we flying with time? Have we changed or improved our perception towards our society and our so called traditions? Have we started believing in equality and respecting each other despite of our gender, caste, culture and age?
As I mentioned in my previous research, the gender pay gap have many causes. Women are compelled to choose over the family and parenthood to their career. Due to which women are inclined to do part time jobs than full times. However, there has been a drastic change in these differences over the years. The gender pay gap has moved from 24% to 19% over the decade. (BHPS data, E,F,G (corresponding to 1995,1996 and 1997) and waves N,O,P and Q(broadly corresponding to 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007)).Well, it seems like the other half of the glass is still full. Now lets see the factors that has affected in changing the demography of the gender pay gap over the decade.
The gender pay gap can be analysed on the basis of hourly pay rate. One standard measures ,compares women’s overall earnings by men working as a full time by which pay gap is 21% (2004-2007).The overall pay gap has decreased by 4% since 1990’s from 29% to 19% or 25% to 21% depends on which denominator has been used. Men’s full time pay was £12.71 per hour and women’s was £10.85 per hour in 2004 – 2007.
In some cases, “being a female” becomes the main reason for the differences in pay gap. The overall difference in wages was 12% in 2007 and was 16% in 1997. The pay gap still existed even after the control over education, age, firm, size and region. Still today, men are seen as the “bread winner” of the family. Therefore, women are more pushed towards family responsibility. The gendered stereotypes at workplace also affect the differences in pay gaps.
The occupation segregation is another key factor. There was 15%-17% of pay gaps in periods, 90’s and 2000. Each individual’s occupation is classified into a standard occupation classification job heading, and then percentage of workers in UK who are male for each occupational category is calculated. The highest male segregation is in industry and primary sectors whereas high percentages of women are still found working in caring work or customer services- where there is lowest percentage of male segregations.
The Industrial sector also plays an important role in gender pay gap. There was 8% pay difference in this sector in 1997. However, it has been reduced to 5% by 2007. Women in these sectors still get much low pay than men. Women earn 17% less wage per hour than men.
Gender pay gap leads to poverty as well. The gender pay gap plays a key role in this difference as the inequalities between men and women’s salaries over a lifetime can have a significant impact on women’s earnings and pensions. This leads to older women having a higher risk of poverty (22%) compared to men (16%).(European Commission, employment social affairs and equal opportunities, 18/03/2010)
Thus, after my research over the changes in gender pay gap over the decade, I can say that, there have been incredible changes in the differences in pay gaps. However, there are still some gaps that we need to fill in. As we all know, there is always a light in the other side of the tunnel, lets be positive and hopefully, in next couple of years the term “glass ceilings”, gender pay gap would be removed from our day to day life dictionary.
In these ten years of time, lot of things have been changed. Life is much more convenient because of the emerging technologies, global warming is at high risk, redundancy rates and criminal rates are rising like the sea level, Cheryl Cole and Ashley are on the process to get divorced, Simon Cowell ultimately found his “soul mate” and at long last a female director has been acknowledged at the Oscar Awards, 2010(yippee!!! Well done woman!).And it seems like I just celebrated my 10th birthday yesterday (when I got a beautiful tiara!) but sadly I am 20 this year. Time is flying like never to return! However, the question is, Are we flying with time? Have we changed or improved our perception towards our society and our so called traditions? Have we started believing in equality and respecting each other despite of our gender, caste, culture and age?
As I mentioned in my previous research, the gender pay gap have many causes. Women are compelled to choose over the family and parenthood to their career. Due to which women are inclined to do part time jobs than full times. However, there has been a drastic change in these differences over the years. The gender pay gap has moved from 24% to 19% over the decade. (BHPS data, E,F,G (corresponding to 1995,1996 and 1997) and waves N,O,P and Q(broadly corresponding to 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007)).Well, it seems like the other half of the glass is still full. Now lets see the factors that has affected in changing the demography of the gender pay gap over the decade.
The gender pay gap can be analysed on the basis of hourly pay rate. One standard measures ,compares women’s overall earnings by men working as a full time by which pay gap is 21% (2004-2007).The overall pay gap has decreased by 4% since 1990’s from 29% to 19% or 25% to 21% depends on which denominator has been used. Men’s full time pay was £12.71 per hour and women’s was £10.85 per hour in 2004 – 2007.
In some cases, “being a female” becomes the main reason for the differences in pay gap. The overall difference in wages was 12% in 2007 and was 16% in 1997. The pay gap still existed even after the control over education, age, firm, size and region. Still today, men are seen as the “bread winner” of the family. Therefore, women are more pushed towards family responsibility. The gendered stereotypes at workplace also affect the differences in pay gaps.
The occupation segregation is another key factor. There was 15%-17% of pay gaps in periods, 90’s and 2000. Each individual’s occupation is classified into a standard occupation classification job heading, and then percentage of workers in UK who are male for each occupational category is calculated. The highest male segregation is in industry and primary sectors whereas high percentages of women are still found working in caring work or customer services- where there is lowest percentage of male segregations.
The Industrial sector also plays an important role in gender pay gap. There was 8% pay difference in this sector in 1997. However, it has been reduced to 5% by 2007. Women in these sectors still get much low pay than men. Women earn 17% less wage per hour than men.
Gender pay gap leads to poverty as well. The gender pay gap plays a key role in this difference as the inequalities between men and women’s salaries over a lifetime can have a significant impact on women’s earnings and pensions. This leads to older women having a higher risk of poverty (22%) compared to men (16%).(European Commission, employment social affairs and equal opportunities, 18/03/2010)
Thus, after my research over the changes in gender pay gap over the decade, I can say that, there have been incredible changes in the differences in pay gaps. However, there are still some gaps that we need to fill in. As we all know, there is always a light in the other side of the tunnel, lets be positive and hopefully, in next couple of years the term “glass ceilings”, gender pay gap would be removed from our day to day life dictionary.
Friday, 12 March 2010
Women from Pots to Plots........(revised)
“Equality is vital, not only for individuals, but for the society as a whole.” – Equality Minister Hariet Harman.s
“Woman” – A woman (irregular plural: women) is a female human. The term woman is usually reserved for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent. However, the term woman is also sometimes used to identify a female human, regardless of age, as in phrases such as "Women's rights (Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia).
A woman is someone’s daughter, wife/partner, mother, daughter- in law, aunty; She is addressed with so many names and relations, that sometimes she forgets her real name. The social, and so-called “civilised” society governs women, to such an extent that they disregard their own existence. Most of the time, they are dominated in such a manner that they are bound to live their life at others convenience.
It is true that women’s social status at present is much better than it was in last ten years. People are more educated and aware now, however, the term “gender discrimination “ still exists. Women today, are given opportunity but are chained with social and cultural responsibilities as well. Because of which she is bound to choose her personal /family life over her career. It does not matter, how talented women are, their competence are still considered to be mediocre to men. Clare Boothe Luce says, “Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes.” This kind of detrimental beliefs of people is the reason why, After 40 years of implementation of equal pay rights, women still today earns 87 pence for the every £1 men earn. The “Gender pay” gap still exists.
Men are still perceived as the “bread winner” for the family. Thus, they command a higher pay. It is a fact that, women in industries, is a new history as those who used to work in past, worked in traditional sectors like nursing, caring, cleaning etc. Men still dominate the upper tiers of the business world, which is where the money is. Men dominate the power structure of most of the world, thus develop the policy.
The figures provided by the ONS suggests, the gender gap does increase with age and begins to stretch once women take time off to have children. According to the survey done by US bureau of Statistics (2006), 8,25,000 women were sacked or had missed out on pay rise because of their pregnancy leave. It’s logical that, the more you give out, the more you bring in. However, how fair is it to sack a woman for taking a maternity leave?
The three main complex reasons for gender pay gap are:
i) Caring responsibilities
ii) Part time working
iii) Sectoral and occupation segregation.
.
Due to the family responsibilities and motherhood, women are compelled to take time off from their career and focus on their children and family. Therefore, picking up children from the school or taking them to the hospitals for check ups wins the battle between career and personal life. Most of the women are bound to work as per the circumstances at home, which in due course lead them to drop their interested career and work for few shillings.
In private sector, the gender pay gap is elevated at the high levels; higher the post higher the difference. However, at public sectors, there is usually a standard rate (minimum rate) wage. The average numbers of women employed in higher level were only 5% among the 600 companies surveyed. (BBC News- World Economic Forum, 8th March 2010). It is also understood that disparity in educational qualifications is not very important characteristics in gender pay gap. It is because no matter how educated women are their capabilities are overlapped by the prejudicial thoughts of people.
Therefore, all the reasons for differences in wages are interlinked with the social and cultural factors as well as the awareness among people. It is true that the situation of women in the society or workplace is much better than it used to be, however, there are still some gaps and it is high time we underline the factors and work on it.
What do you think???
Sources: US Bureau of Statistics, Government Equality Office, UK, Office of National Statistics, World Economic Forum.
“Woman” – A woman (irregular plural: women) is a female human. The term woman is usually reserved for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent. However, the term woman is also sometimes used to identify a female human, regardless of age, as in phrases such as "Women's rights (Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia).
A woman is someone’s daughter, wife/partner, mother, daughter- in law, aunty; She is addressed with so many names and relations, that sometimes she forgets her real name. The social, and so-called “civilised” society governs women, to such an extent that they disregard their own existence. Most of the time, they are dominated in such a manner that they are bound to live their life at others convenience.
It is true that women’s social status at present is much better than it was in last ten years. People are more educated and aware now, however, the term “gender discrimination “ still exists. Women today, are given opportunity but are chained with social and cultural responsibilities as well. Because of which she is bound to choose her personal /family life over her career. It does not matter, how talented women are, their competence are still considered to be mediocre to men. Clare Boothe Luce says, “Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes.” This kind of detrimental beliefs of people is the reason why, After 40 years of implementation of equal pay rights, women still today earns 87 pence for the every £1 men earn. The “Gender pay” gap still exists.
Men are still perceived as the “bread winner” for the family. Thus, they command a higher pay. It is a fact that, women in industries, is a new history as those who used to work in past, worked in traditional sectors like nursing, caring, cleaning etc. Men still dominate the upper tiers of the business world, which is where the money is. Men dominate the power structure of most of the world, thus develop the policy.
The figures provided by the ONS suggests, the gender gap does increase with age and begins to stretch once women take time off to have children. According to the survey done by US bureau of Statistics (2006), 8,25,000 women were sacked or had missed out on pay rise because of their pregnancy leave. It’s logical that, the more you give out, the more you bring in. However, how fair is it to sack a woman for taking a maternity leave?
The three main complex reasons for gender pay gap are:
i) Caring responsibilities
ii) Part time working
iii) Sectoral and occupation segregation.
.
Due to the family responsibilities and motherhood, women are compelled to take time off from their career and focus on their children and family. Therefore, picking up children from the school or taking them to the hospitals for check ups wins the battle between career and personal life. Most of the women are bound to work as per the circumstances at home, which in due course lead them to drop their interested career and work for few shillings.
In private sector, the gender pay gap is elevated at the high levels; higher the post higher the difference. However, at public sectors, there is usually a standard rate (minimum rate) wage. The average numbers of women employed in higher level were only 5% among the 600 companies surveyed. (BBC News- World Economic Forum, 8th March 2010). It is also understood that disparity in educational qualifications is not very important characteristics in gender pay gap. It is because no matter how educated women are their capabilities are overlapped by the prejudicial thoughts of people.
Therefore, all the reasons for differences in wages are interlinked with the social and cultural factors as well as the awareness among people. It is true that the situation of women in the society or workplace is much better than it used to be, however, there are still some gaps and it is high time we underline the factors and work on it.
What do you think???
Sources: US Bureau of Statistics, Government Equality Office, UK, Office of National Statistics, World Economic Forum.
Sunday, 7 March 2010
A story of Women at work.....
Women are the main founders of the society; they are yet undermined by the so-called patriarch cal society. They are in constant struggle from workplace to bedroom. Why is it always women who has to make compromises most of the time; whether it be work place, home or society? There are a mountains of laws passed for women’s right in parliament, but have they been implemented properly? After 40 years of implementation of equal pay right, still today women earn 87 p for the every £1 men earn. Gender pay gap still exists.
At this, day and age, where women are no less than men in education, intelligence, or being conscientious, men are still seen as the “bread winner “ for the family. Thus, they command a higher pay. It is a fact that, women in industries, is a new history as those who used to work in past, worked in traditional sectors like nursing, caring, cleaning etc. Men still dominate the upper tiers of the business world, which is where the money is. Men dominate the power structure of most of the world, thus develop the policy. Women are given opportunities (in traditional sectors) along with the responsibility of family and parenthood. Figures provided by the ONS suggests the gender gap does increase with age and begins to stretch once women take time off to have children. According to the survey done by US bureau of Statistics, 8,25,000 women were sacked or their pay was not raised because of their pregnancy leave. It’s understandable that the more you serve, the more you are paid for it. However, how fair is it to sack a woman for taking a maternity leave?
The three main complex cause for gender pay gap are caring responsibilities, part time working and occupation segregation. Due to the family responsibilities and motherhood, women are compelled to take time off from their career and focus on her children and family. Therefore, picking up child from the school or taking them to the hospitals for check ups wins the battle between career and personal life. Most of the women are bound to work as per the circumstances at home, which in due course lead them to drop their interested career and work just for few shillings.
At workplace, no matter how diligent a female worker is, their work are always over looked as an inferior efficient than to the men by the people at the higher post ( men, most of the time) which automatically undermines their progress and promotions. The highest level of male segregation (61%) is technical workers and primary workers whereas the highest female segregation involves the lowest segregation (33%) of men
Therefore, the social and cultural factors are one of the key reasons for destabilization in the pay rate. It is true that the situation of women in the society or workplace is much better than it used to be, however, there are still some gaps and it is high time we do something to fill in the gaps. What do you think???
Sources: US Bureau of Statistics, Government Equality Office, UK, Office of National Statistics.
At this, day and age, where women are no less than men in education, intelligence, or being conscientious, men are still seen as the “bread winner “ for the family. Thus, they command a higher pay. It is a fact that, women in industries, is a new history as those who used to work in past, worked in traditional sectors like nursing, caring, cleaning etc. Men still dominate the upper tiers of the business world, which is where the money is. Men dominate the power structure of most of the world, thus develop the policy. Women are given opportunities (in traditional sectors) along with the responsibility of family and parenthood. Figures provided by the ONS suggests the gender gap does increase with age and begins to stretch once women take time off to have children. According to the survey done by US bureau of Statistics, 8,25,000 women were sacked or their pay was not raised because of their pregnancy leave. It’s understandable that the more you serve, the more you are paid for it. However, how fair is it to sack a woman for taking a maternity leave?
The three main complex cause for gender pay gap are caring responsibilities, part time working and occupation segregation. Due to the family responsibilities and motherhood, women are compelled to take time off from their career and focus on her children and family. Therefore, picking up child from the school or taking them to the hospitals for check ups wins the battle between career and personal life. Most of the women are bound to work as per the circumstances at home, which in due course lead them to drop their interested career and work just for few shillings.
At workplace, no matter how diligent a female worker is, their work are always over looked as an inferior efficient than to the men by the people at the higher post ( men, most of the time) which automatically undermines their progress and promotions. The highest level of male segregation (61%) is technical workers and primary workers whereas the highest female segregation involves the lowest segregation (33%) of men
Therefore, the social and cultural factors are one of the key reasons for destabilization in the pay rate. It is true that the situation of women in the society or workplace is much better than it used to be, however, there are still some gaps and it is high time we do something to fill in the gaps. What do you think???
Sources: US Bureau of Statistics, Government Equality Office, UK, Office of National Statistics.
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