Thank you, Mr. Speaker, first off I would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land that we meet on today, the Noongar people, and acknowledge their elders both past, present, and future. It is an honour to rise in this place for the first time as the representative of the people of Capricornia. I am here today to discuss the future of gender equality in Australia. If we are honest, I think we can all agree that gender equality is an issue which goes far beyond our reach due to our generation being so careless about it.
This issue has as affected both past and present society. In any democratic society, this is a concern that is to be taken more seriously. Australia has dealt with gender equality of wages for a long period and nowhere in Australia’s history have women and men’s wages been equal. Due to this significant gap, women seem to be
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Even to this day there seems to be barriers which continue to slow down the opportunities for women. There seem to be many women who have occupied with teaching and nursing. Only 5% of the women's population seem to be interested in engineering and computing. The pay equity has dropped over the years causing men to earn more for the same amount of work and responsibility.
“The Sex Discrimination Act of 1984 proposed that the act prohibits the discrimination on the basis of sex, pregnancy in a variety of areas within work, accommodation, education, the provision of goods, facilities and services etc.” The Sex Discrimination act seeks to protect the grounds of both women and men in all areas of work. It’s true that achieving gender equality in Australia is at a stand still. Despite that Australia has set in accepting women as equal as their male counterparts, which is in one way of moving toward to the future of true gender
Yet, it was generally established that women are proceeding to develop an equivalent opportunity to their male counterparts, such as the example of Australia’s first female prime minister in 2010. This case displays the mounting support towards women within Australian society. With further emphasis of women in society, Australian women may soon become equal to their male counterparts, and then allowing equal power among the
The critical rank for reducing gender inequalities should be education, labor force participation, and lastly, wages. There are obvious differences between men and women whether it’s anatomically, financially, and so forth. The gender inequalities women face compared to men is alarming and saddening. Gender stereotypes reinforce gender inequalities because stereotypes can often be internalized which results in biases against either sex. These biases against a person can result in negative results. Gender inequality has been within our society for a long time especially amongst women.
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Discrimination based on gender or sex is a common civil rights violation. Discrimination continues to exist in all forms, despite the efforts to eliminate it. Skin color, religion, and sex are the central components of discrimination in the world. One specific area that has shown great improvements over time is gender equality. Throughout world history, women have been viewed as inferior to men. In the United States, women were not allowed to join the military or vote. The United States has made great strides in providing equal opportunity to all genders. In spite of the several laws and acts congress has passed, women are still viewed as subordinate people. Judith Lorber, Shari Dworkin, Bianca Grohmann, as well as Christopher Greenwell and
Victoria. (2006). How Much of Remaining Gender Pay Gap is Result of Discrimination and How Much is Due to Individual Choices? International Journal of Urban Labour and Leaisure , 7 (2).
A huge problem in the working world is the issue of equal pay between men and women in the workplace. Once stance taken is that women are specifically targeted and that they are payed less than the average income of a man who has the same education and who works in the same profession while the other stance states that men and women are paid as close to equal as possible considering the careers taken. The issue of equal pay for women is considered an embarrassment. The term ¨embarrassment” is not an accurate term to describe the issue when so many factors go into how much women are paid. In 2014, a study showed that women earned 77 percent of what a man in the same position earned the same year. This looks bad, but
A number of factors have contributed to the gap between men’s and women’s wages. These include: occupational segregation of women into low paying jobs; lower levels of unionization for women and attitudinal barriers that have kept women from achieving equality in the workplace and undervaluation for women’s work.
For many years in United States, equal salary pay for women has been a major issue that women have been fighting for decades. This began back in World War II, when the National Labor Board urged equalize the salary rates for women with the same rates that males were getting of the same professions. (Rowen) Although, traditionally most women do not work to provide for there family and there are not so many independent women during World War II. After World War II more women lost their jobs to veterans returning to the workforce. Women in the workforce after the war have been discriminated ever since. The idea of women as weak and cannot perform there jobs
Due to various countries initiatives to shrink the wage inequality between men and women wages in the work force, the gap has narrowed, respectively, which may have helped form such opinion. However, stating that the gender pay gap does not exist in today’s society, anywhere, is completely unlikely. Seeing that the gap has loosened its grasp in the working world, in other countries, the gap between pay has widened or remained stagnant. One cannot help but wonder why the gap remains consistent, even with such substantial progress made in countries where the gap has decreased. Reasons as to why gender wage gap exist so heavily, slightly differs from country to country, but the overall effect from the wage disparity is wholly evident.
Gender identity is becoming increasingly ambiguous, with many people refusing to conform to these outdated norms. Historically throughout western culture, gender stereotypes have dictated the relationship between the sexes, as well as, their place in society. Traditionally, men have been portrayed as superior to women, both physically and intellectually. However, behaviour and gene research have disproved the biological determinism used to justify this gender order. Nonetheless, even with this information readily available in Australia, gender order still exists, leading to inequality both socially and professionally.
Closing the wage gap between men and women is a continuing struggle today in nations all over the world. In many occupations, women are paid less overall than their male counterparts. One nation, however, is making strides to bring this disparity in wages into the light. British law will soon require large companies to publish information about the salaries paid to their male and female employees. While this is a great step forward in recognizing the gender pay gap, many women also face many other obstacles to getting equal pay, such as the “Mommy Tax” that reporter Ann Crittenden talks about in her piece of the same name (Kirk and Okazawa-Rey 337).
Some women would prefer to be barefoot and pregnant housewives that spend their days cooking and cleaning while their husband goes to work. However, other women embrace their right to pursue educational and occupational dreams. Unfortunately, because it has not been all that long ago that women were not considered to be qualified for a spot in most work places, they experience a lot of discrimination in the workplace. Because gender roles are almost deeply embedded in our society, women often do not get put up for the same job opportunities and promotions that their male equal might be subject
The issue of gender equality, whilst improving, still remains a prevalent contemporary issue in Australian society. Gender equality refers to equal access to rights and opportunities regardless of an individual’s gender or sex. Many often think that gender inequalities affect women more than men, however in reality it affects both genders on a daily basis. Whilst legislations have been introduced such as equality of sex and discrimination legislation (Egmond, Baxter & Buchler, 2010), inequalities are still prevalent. These inequalities are closely tied with the gender stereotypes and gender role attitudes embedded in Australian society.
Women’s right to equal pay or gender pay gap has been a subject of discussion over the years in the united states, women perform similar jobs to men, but are paid