Gender Equality And Women's Rights And Equality

Contrary to many arguments, it is unquestionable that a wage gap exists, and while there are various ideas as to the most probable cause, there is no reason why this gap should continue to go uncorrected or unchanged. Our government should take concrete steps to close the gender wage gap because it violates women’s rights and equality.

A woman’s right to equality guarantees her that she will be treated fairly in the workplace and that she is respected as having equal value and worth as her male peers. The wage gap has been around since women began working outside the home, and even as more careers become open to women, there are still numerous complaints of harassment and inequality being filed daily. Today, our country’s standard of freedom and values would be followed more fairly if a gender wage gap did not exist between women and men. Typically in the US, women are paid seventy-seven cents to a man’s

To tackle this problem of unequal pay, various movements have risen in the recent times ensuring pay equity. In Canada, the purpose of the Pay Equity Act is to achieve equality in the workplace so that no person shall be denied employment opportunities (Pay equity legislation in Canada).

Major steps have been taken in the past for pay equity, which has not been achieved because wage inequality, in various jobs, undertaken by women including unequal pay in the field of sports, and why women tend to work at low paid jobs. There is pay inequity almost in any profession undertaken by women. Men earn significantly more than women despite the existence of the Pay Equity Act. During the time when Baby Boomers were joining the workforce, women earned 59 cents to the dollar till the 1980s where the wage gap was narrowed by just fifteen cents to just seventy-four cents to the