Wage gap

In Brazil a huge income inequality exsit among females and males. For example a male high school graduate will earn $16.40 an hour. While a female after going to school for 12 years, will make $10.10 an hour. So may say the reason for such an descrpancy would be men work more hours than women. This isn't true, studies show that women work 4.4 hours more than their counterparts. Not only do women work in their society more than the male, they also carry out more of the domestic chores, than men. There is also more unemployed women than men, although they usually have for than three years of schooling than a male.

This is a globally problem. This same problem is also occuring in London right now. According to the article women will not make the same amount of money as male until 150 years from now. This is due largely to the lack of govermental invovlement. As in Brazil men try to blame it on the women for the reason why they don't get as much money as them. According to the article some say the reason is because women take a maternity leave. This has been proven to be false, even if a women didn't take a maternity ever in her working career, the male would still be making more money than the female.

I believe that for a problem such as that to not exisit it wil take a powerful outside force such as the goverment. The Goverment will first need to realize that this is a huge problem, then they will have to act on it. I think the only way to do it effectly will be increasing the amount of women who hold politically offices. Although a male politician will make it aware that, a problem exisit i don't think he could be as effective as a women holding a political office.



Source:

1) Woolcock, Nicola. ( July 2006) Women will earn the same amount of money as a men- if they wait 150 years. retrived on Sept 7, 2006 from http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=bf56f04b61e45e0a85e96d0780415af7&_docnum=56&wchp=dGLbVzb-zSkVA&_md5=ca6aa84d30af7d671576e99bcfd99e17 .



2) National News (April, 2006) Study discloses inequality between sexe. Retrieved on Sept 7, 2006 from http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=ecc579670325b6a67130c24c5a64cb7f&_docnum=13&wchp=dGLbVzb-zSkVA&_md5=bf68eda9890ed6248bb7aaf70947a29c .