Gender Equity X Job Perspective
Job Perspectives (Gender Equity )
- don’t talk about women / men - professionals and skill based job
(opportunity, salary, qualification )
- what is needed
- not limit in Malaysia
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In 2016, they also compared 120 occupation what hire both women and men for the same job. Among them, there are only 4 jobs that women earned higher salary than men. The 4 jobs are :
According to latest research in State, there are around 66 percent of men in workplace while women are around 54.6 percent. (Because of different report, numbers do no add up to 100 percent). While in the salary comparison on the fourth quarter of 2017, it is reported that the average salary for men is $946 compared to $769 for women. Men earned 81.3 percent more than women. (Bean-Mellinger, 2018)
The Bureau of Labor Statistics also broke down the salaries by age :
- Age 16-24 Men $512 Women $486
- Age 25-34 Men $820* Women $700*
- Age 35-44 Men $1,000 Women $839
- Age 45-54 Men $1,075 Women $836
- Age 55-64 Men $1,102 Women $830*
It shown that it is the occupation itself affect the salary of women compared to men.
It depends on the job whether it is suitable for a women to conduct or a men.
But, beside salary, what links gender equity to job perspective?
Gaby Hinsliff stated that gender equity at work is a matter of respect, not just money.
In my opinion, men and women should be treated equally in workplace.
In my own experience, I've seen people are rejected and being critic just because they want to do the job that they want.
An employer will trust a men more than a women to handle a task.
A woman received lesser salary than a man in the same position of a job.
A man being critic just because he worked as a beautician.
The family of a patient in hospital prefer a female nurse to take care of the patient instead of a male nurse.
Why is this happen to the society? How we can stop this thinking of people?
It all started from one's childhood. We were affected by the traditional education that blue is for boy, pink is for girl; men are strong and women are weak ; women should stay at home, be a housewife, do all the household and take care of the children while men should go out for work, earn money to raise the kid and support the family.
Yes. This is the traditional perspective that a family should live with but not now.
In this modern era, everything changes, from technology to transport to fashion to everything. But not the thinking of people in gender equity in workplace. education.
Education is one of the big issue in affecting people's thinking.
Even though a lots of women had gone to work nowadays but they are still not being treated equally.
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