In nearly four decades, the education of women has been heavily developed while the wage gap between women and men did not change much. Women nowadays are incorporating more and more into the educational world. Comparing with the past, a women today is more educated, more intelligent, and more of a hard worker. Women are taking part in serious jobs and are now paid the highest wages (in consideration to other women) but still there is the gap of gender blocking the way to equality. A man is more praised for a successful career in politics, business or even engineering than women are. This wage gap can affect a woman psychologically, mentally, and even physically. Psychologically speaking, a woman can generate underestimation and low self-esteem. For example, if you are a woman working a full time job knowing that a lower ranked man employee earns more amount of money you will become depressed and will underestimate yourself. The gender wage gap is a serious issue regarding our societies. …show more content…
In the past, that wage gap was so large between women and men but nowadays it is going downhill but according to experts, it will never reach equality. In order to raise a family in this decade, both parents should work full time to cope with their children’s needs but women working all day regularly were paid only 80 percent of what men were paid according to several statistics. Statistical measures and facts show how women are disgraced and oppressed. Women are having successful careers as chemists, physicists, economists and even engineers but the world cannot appreciate a woman as physicist like they would appreciate a man. One of the …show more content…
It has well known that men and women have specific jobs in a society that are different from each other. Men are supposed to work dirty and handy jobs such as engineers or doctors while women should always work in a clean environment such as secretaries. “The traditional view of the male as breadwinner and the female as homemaker has shifted over time (Lease, 2003)” (Perrone, Wright, 2016). Nowadays, the world has changed to better. Women are going into manly fields such as engineers and breadwinners. According to Perrone and Wright (2016): “In fact, the most recent census bureau data indicate that dual-earner families are the most prevalent family type with children under the age of 18 (65%; U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2007, p. 381)”.
These statistics shows that work roles in the society are changing
Finally, gender stereotypes negatively influences societies but would be a great development to human is thinking that is more open-minded. These stereotypes are caught up with several traditions from great grandfathers. These traditions can change in logical ideas laughing up with the new brand of