Today, wage gap is a serious issue in our society. I want to explain what does mean a wage gap. It is an inequality wage between women’s and men’s earnings; even though it is not everything. There is a caustic problem of gender wage gap. According to the article, “The simple truth about the gender pay gap”, since start of the pandemic, more women lost their jobs than men. There we are speaking about restaurants, retails, hotels, travel sectors and so forth. “… Different genders have a different path through education and training. This often stress women into fields and even specialties within fields… “There are a lot of stereotypes of gender that create additional barriers for women. Unfortunately, men and women do not have an equal term in employer’s eyes. Motherhood is penalty and fatherhood are bonus. Employers try to hire women who do not have children. They offer mothers lower salaries and fewer promotions than they offer to women without children. Meanwhile, fathers make 119% of what men without children earn. Women who have children earn 73% of what fathers earn. Additionally, there are other issues. Women have a lower salary than men, even when the job require the same level of skills, education, and trainings.
Additionally, there is a trouble about race. If you are a black color woman, you will have low salary than Latina or a Native American woman, but if you are a white woman, your salary will be higher.
Also, there are other types of gendered disparities in the workplaces. According to the “Policies to End the Gender Wage Gap in the United States”, women and men have a different kind of jobs. There are “jobs for women” and “jobs for men”. Fortunately, women made some progress pass thirty years in some realms. For example, they occupation medicine. Women made a little progress in male blue collar jobs such as constructions. “Neoclassical economists believe that women are less productive and that they choose lower-paying jobs to care for their families. Women work fewer years than men, and if they work at all, women with young children are more likely to work part-time compared to men with young families. Anticipating their family needs, women choose occupations that allow them flexibility in the hours they work, such as nursing and teaching, and they avoid jobs that require highly specific skills and knowledge that become quickly outdated, such as in physics, knowing that they may take time off to raise families.”(page 279) The problem comes from our society, and it clearly are showed in the above mentioned quote.
I think that there are some solutions. I believe that everything will change, but it needs time. “Rome was not built in a day”. I hope that step by step women and men will have equal terms in a different job, and they will have an appropriate salary. Although if we want to have changes, we must fight for this. I feel that if women and even men will not silence, they will have a progress. For example, no one imagined women as a bus driver, worker in a construction, as a pilot and so forth. Although today we have women who can work better in “men’s job” than even men. I hope that one day everything will change, and we will not have same problems.
