Gender Inequality
Why Women's Rights are an Important Social Justice Issue
Malala Yousefzai once said, “I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.” Did you know the pay gap between men and women will, over the course of a woman's life time, cost a women and her family lost wages? Women's rights have started to get better, but not enough. For example, the US is one of only four countries in the world that doesn't give paid maternity leave. Also, the US is 65th on the list of women's wages. A few of the countries higher on the list were Egypt, Russia, Thailand, Honduras and Ethiopia. We need to start learning about the women's rights problems, and what to do about them.
The Problem- What it is. Why it is important enough to worry about.
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In 1963, the Equal Pay Act was made, and it stated all men and women should be paid the same amount when working in the same job. However, women are still being paid 77 cents to every dollar a man is being paid in the same job. On the White House Government page, it states, “Despite passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which requires that men and women in the same work place be given equal pay for equal work, the "gender gap" in pay persists. Full-time women workers’ earnings are only about 77 percent of their male counterparts’ earnings.” This shows women workers get paid less, even if they worked