Throughout the year’s American society has created a cultural barrier that supports ongoing gender inequality in the workforce. Gender equality doesn’t start with unequal pay, but rather it starts with an ideology. In America there is still a strong sense of male superiority and traditional gender roles. Women bring to bear this mindset due to the overall widespread acceptance of it, rather than resistance. Due to the historical patriarchal nature of humans, cultural gender inequality is seen throughout the world, but it is more prevalent in America. According to an GWU article that compares gender equality between America and Switzerland, “The United States, on average, faces a greater challenge than does Switzerland. Both Swiss men and women …show more content…
Historically speaking there is a vast uneven distribution of degrees earned by different genders. Women usually go into fields such as education and health studies. There is a gender over saturation issues in many jobs that the employer has to account for. Many females don’t pursue an occupation in political science. In order for this to change, there needs to be a change in cultural ideology in America. Kids need to need conditioned to stray away from traditional roles, in order for there to gender equality for future generations. That being said overall, Women’s education is underutilized in terms of formal employment and leadership roles. There is a lot of political potential that has yet been achieved, women offer a different perspective on many important issue. Women empowerment is an area that needs to be more widespread that needs to be more widespread in order to lessen gender inequality in the workforce. According to Unwomen, “The establishment of high-level corporate leadership for gender equality is an important step to creating a stronger society. In order to do this there needs to be respect and support for human rights and non-discrimination in the