A Room Of One's Own By Virginia Woolf

During this time in history, it's easy to think that women are given the same advantages as men, and also to think that in the eye of economics we are equal. Looking back thousands, even just forty years ago there were clear examples of inequality among men and women. Even though today it may not be to some degree what it used to be the imbalance is still there, especially in a woman's pay. For many years women were often paid a fraction of what men were, today it may not be as significant but that doesn't mean we should just overlook that women make seventy-nine cents to the man's dollar. In A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, she points out that in order for women to be independent one thing they need is money. If women today aren't able

In this day in age most women don't get to decide if they want to stay at home and raise children because the expenses of this modern-day life require a double income household. On the other hand, men are more likely to get a more formal job than women are in an article written on women in science Nicholas Wolfinger states, "The married mothers of young children--that is, children too young to attend school--are 35 percent less likely to get tenure--track jobs compared with married fathers of young children" (wolfinger). Why is it that if both men and women have children the men are thought of as worthier of the same job? It has to do with this old way of thinking, that the men go out and work while the women stay home doing the laundry, dishes and raising the kids. All of those tasks are unpaid and, though extremely important, contribute to making a woman less independent. No money is given to a woman for doing household chores, and now when woman have to work they are expected to be in jobs that pay less than the jobs expected to be done by men, or when doing the same job they are paid less. The doubts that men put on working mothers contributes greatly to the imbalance of pay between sexes and independence of a working

Though meant for good, there are some flaws that go along with it. First of all, there have been stigmas put on the workers looking to take advantage of this leave as said in Nicholas Wolfinger's article, "Traditionally many faculty members, especially women, have not availed themselves of these family-friendly programs because they perceived a stigma in doing so" (Wolfinger). Men and women should both be able to take a leave after their child is born. When mothers take a maternity leave they don't always come back because they were the sole one that left to care of the baby and it may be hard to go back to work after spending most of the day with them to decreasing significantly. This is why both men and women should take a leave, it shouldn't be just the mother having to temporarily leave her job, which could turn into permanently. The second flaw is that a paid leave after the child is born isn't always guaranteed. Claire Cain Miller states, "Women are more likely to return to work after having a baby when they have paid leave, and men who take paternity leave spend more time on child care" (Miller). If paid maternity and paternity leave were given two benefits could possibly occur. The first being when women are paid for their maternity leave as Miller stated they are more likely to return to work, making it so the