Gender Pay Gap: A Difficulty

Pay Gap: a bitter difficulty Women and men should receive the same salary for doing the same job. That is the idealistic concept that fits very well in an invented society. However, gender pay gap shows one of the worst discrimination problems nowadays. After several investigations, many factors show that women receive an inferior amount of money in comparison with men, simply due to the gender difference. Thus, the debate is on the table. Why are women paid less? There is a key difference between women and men when someone of them is hired is the wage. Eurostat says “gender pay gap is an important indicator used within European employment strategy to monitor imbalances in wages between men and women” (Bezzina). The data obtained from the

Their profile of a common successful graduate student shares qualities as hardworking during the studies, the sport options to practice are equal and the same rights and duties. Even though, the education of both is independent of gender, women are paid less. For example, “It’s even harder for young women, who still face a significant gender pay gap” (Monaghan), at the current trend “the pay gap will exist by the time today’s young women are retied” (Monaghan) says Carole Easton, CEO of Young Women’s Trust. This case of UK shows that the rate reduction of the pay gap is hard to overcome, but not impossible. Furthermore, the campaign – social networks, protests and so on - of consciousness-raising about pay discrimination accomplished by the feminism, to raise awareness on men is starting to be successful. This leads to men defending women rights to have their identical salaries. Nevertheless, are they choosing the same types of

Historically, the power has been distributed between them disparately. As time goes by, women started to “hold more decision-making positions in public and private sectors” (Nations). However, “currently, only one of the five members of lower or single houses of parliament worldwide is a woman, new factors contribute to this blatant underrepresentation” (Nations). In case of public sector, women are rarely leaders of a main political parties, and these are instruments in the creation of new leaders. Gender norms, in addition to the previous one, contributes to the various obstacles faced by women. In private ones, the ‘glass ceiling’ to form part of an executive board remains a reality. Thus, the exclusion of women from these positions creates stereotypes of gender, which only establishes more barriers to reach the equality. Despite these major issues, the use of gender quotas destroys many of the problems mentioned, and dismantle the established patriarchy step by step from inside