This is nothing new to anyone unless you have been leaving under a rock. Men have always been superior to women and taken more seriously. This would be explained further in different department below.
Work Industry: According to society a woman's job is to be at home taking care of her husband and children, while a man is the head of the family and he should be the one providing the income to sustain the family. Jobs are more likely to hire male than female employees. This is because they feel men are more dedicated to their jobs than women. For instance, women who start a job working full time and giving it their all does not really last for long. They tend to have a family along the way which would require them to leave work for a while to take care of their new born baby and children that are not old enough to take care of themselves.
Some women leave work to take care of their children because their income is not enough to hire a nanny to care of the child or to send them to daycare. How do they expect women to take care of their family and work at the same time (especially single mothers) when they are paid a minimum wage.
( taken from www.unfpa.org )
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/subjects-sujets/labour-travail/lfs-epa/t100312a1-eng.htm
A woman can apply for the same job that a man would and spend the same hours that he would, but at the end of the month, she would be paid a lot less than him.
At home: A man is the head of the home and I cannot argue with that, but there is a little problem when a man does not acknowledge the effort a woman puts into taking care and making sure that everything at home is ok. Society does not see it as work, they believe it is expected of women.
To raise a child first of all takes a lot of work and keeping the household clean, doing laundry, cooking and keeping the family happy is not an easy job. Some men find it really hard to help out at home because they feel it makes them less of a man and it's a job for women only. Now this brings up the question that are women brought into this world to be slaves (serve the need of men)? That is something that should be looked into.
The only household that a woman is entitled to do whatever she pleases or take control is when she is the bread winner, in the sense that the man is not able to get a job or he is lazy (this only works in some households, some men would never allow their women to make them takecare of the home eventhough they are not bringing in any income, which might result into a divorce).
Education: While growing up I observed that teachers for some reason are dissapointed when a boy is not to smart or especially when a girl has a highest grade in class. For instance, If a boy gets all straight As, his family, friends and teacher would be happy for him, but when it is a girl, they are very excited for her (as if they were suprised that she could acommplish such). It basically creates low selfesteem for the female students, which is not the way to raise a child.
Conclusion: basically, what I am saying is not for women to fight with men or compete in order to prove them wrong, but to be aware of what is going on and if we work together, we can find a way to change society's views.
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