Should women get equal pay. ( Archived) (66)

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Yeah.. cough.. so we totally agree that women should get equal pay

Hi Tom, thanks for your post. There was a hot discussion about this also in one of the class that I was involved. Here are my personal opinions about this:

- women do seems to mastering number of job's field that looks like not hard and men do the job that seems hard. Maybe it's because biological thing that most of the women can not lift heavy weight or something. But, unfortunately, men do also dominant in a lot of area that do not need to show your strength or something, such as accountant or marketing. And why when a woman become a CEO or president or somewhat in a high leadership position this will be a news? Because this is rare. Even in industrial countries, where gender equality is considered good, this situation is still news. A lot of news showed a low of percentage of woman in this position.

- There are some studies that showed how girls in average better at school. But yet when they come into labour market, most of the top positions and also most number of workers are man. The data about the girls for me showed how woman are more diligent than boys and that's not necessarily showed how woman more intelligent than man (school is not only about intelligent). And this also show me how woman and man can have the same opportunity and also capability either at school or at work.

- When woman show themselves in a tough way, people can jugde them as mean, aggressive, ambitious, rude, scary, have no heart, etc. People can ask you, what do you want? What are you trying to prove? If that happens to a man, people will show some respect, assertive, value them better, that this person had strong minded and strong will, etc. This judgement even harder if you are married woman and still working. I think that many people had been fighting for gender equality and woman nowadays can have the same opportunities to get education, involvement in sport, have the right to vote, enter the public market labour, etc. But yet some people still believe this stereotype.

- People at work don't usually reveal their salary. But from my experience, man is the one who usually dare enough if things come to salary bargaining, office promotion, self promotion, etc. I think this is the one that woman quite hard to do. Some part because of the stereotypes, some part because woman usually undemonstrative about their capabilities and not eager enough to pursue more.

- Some research showed that a better education for woman will improve better quality in the family. Research about woman in top position (CEO or same position) showed that the company get more profit if the top position occupied by woman. Other research showed how woman in the government can decrease number of corruption. I try to mean that gender equality is not a threatened but it is an advantage for the society.

This not mean that man should do all of the traditional "things" than woman do and vice versa. I just think that equality is good and people can discuss about this. Also, thanks for posting this issue!