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.
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"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."
ReplyDeleteIt is not fair that some women get sacked, but as far as I am concerned, whether she gets paid on maternity leave or not should really go down in to what is in the employment contract. But why should a woman really get a raise if she hasn't been to work (being on maternity leave)?
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ReplyDeleteYou know it wouldn't surprise me if men got pregnant, went on maternity leave, came back and STILL got a raise..just for being all brave and what not.
ReplyDeleteOn another note, Chadani, this is a hot topic albeit one that makes me both sad and angry. Women DO get sacked when they retun from maternity and some HR bosses always ask women they intend to employ if they are married if they intend to have babies soon. They tend not to hire women who say yes.
BTW your survey from US bureau of Statistics needs a year.
Well done! Keep up the good work.