Women Should Be Paid Analysis

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Why do we go to school? To get a good education. Why do we need a good education? To get a well paying job that allows us to splurge on what our and our family’s heart desires. Now imagine a woman and a man both having the same exact job that they had worked their whole lives to get only for the woman to be paid less than the man just for her gender. Women are discriminated against everyday solely based on the gender they did not even choose.Canadians have been fighting against the never ending wage gap between men and women for centuries. In fact, in 2015, Statistics Canada reported that Canadian women earned 87 cents to every dollar made by men. Enough is enough when it comes to the amount of disrespect women can take just because society …show more content…

Women and men can both go to the same school, earn the same degrees, work the same job and women are still paid only a fraction of what the man is paid because of her gender. A question in your mind might be why does this gap exist? Well, over the past three decades, the number of women in the workforce getting the same education and jobs as men do has increased exponentially from about 42% to about 60% (Canadian Women’s Foundation). Since women are not traditionally known to work in the workplace, society has been having a tough time adjusting to this great change. Women are seen as more domestic workers who should focus more on household and child related occupations or staying at home opposed to doing a “man’s job” (Canadian Women’s Foundation). They are seen as incapable to handle what a man was born to handle & their skills should be taken somewhere more appropriate for them. Common workplaces cannot phantom a female working in their offices & places of work, so they decide to discriminate against them by lowering their pay. Clearly, women are only paid less than men because although they may have the same job, society is unable to change their old time ways to accept that both men and women can do the same job just as well as each other if not better Also, there are laws against employers paying women and men …show more content…

Firstly, paying women less than men is discouraging them within the workplace. They feel used, undervalued and thus are encouraged to take up occupations society labels them to have such as maids. This means that workplaces will be losing productive and capable workers. Take the words of Professor Sarah Kaplan, the director of the Institute for Gender and the Economy at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, “if you pay women less than men, they feel devalued in the workplace. They’re more likely to drop out of the workplace. You then lose a productive worker in an economy where we’re desperate for talent … There are plenty of economic reasons why we should have equal pay.” (The Globe & Mail). Discouraging female employees increases the dropout rate in industries in need of their services, thus affecting the economy and the revenue collected from said industries. Also, the economy would profit more if they equally paid women and men. According to PwC Canada, equal pay “improves profitability, workplace culture and the economy as a whole,” (Globe & Mail). Canada would have an approximate $105 billion increase in Gross Domestic Product profit if women were treated equally as men in the workplace (Globe & Mail). Canada would only benefit from equal pay for men and women, yet society decides not to for no other reason other than they are stuck in

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