Will there ever be “equity” for women?
Sibi Akbarali Pt
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A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female college graduates than ever before, and more women want to have a career and family, yet challenges persist at work and at home. This book traces how generations of women have responded to the problem of balancing career and family as the twentieth century experienced a sea change in gender equality, revealing why true equity for dual career couples remains frustratingly out of reach.
Women are vastly underrepresented in the global labour market and, when they work, they earn less than men. Claudia Goldin has demonstrated how and why gender differences in earnings and employment rates have changed over time in the United States.A problem that has been with us for as long as gender inequity has, doesn’t have a quick and easy solution. But knowing the cause is a beginning.
Will there ever be “equity” for women?
Equity is often defined to mean equal earnings for men and women in the same job or between comparable individuals
Inequity is in two spheres: that of career and that of family. They are two sides of the same coin. If we can achieve equity within families, we will have a much better chance of achieving gender earnings equality at work. The reason is that children take time. Careers take time. If women do more of the childcare (and household maintenance and eldercare), then they have less time for their careers. They put in fewer hours, they take less demanding jobs and, in consequence, they earn less.
The gender earnings gap:
Women earn less than men, on average. The ratio of the median full-time women’s to men’s weekly earnings is referred to as the gender earnings gap.
The gender earnings gap is small right after college or professional school, but it later widens, especially after a woman has a child. It is larger in certain occupations than in others and is bigger in occupations that put greater value on longer, irregular, and on-call hours. Working mothers are “on-call at home,” whereas working fathers are “on-call at work.”
Why can’t dual-career families share the joys and duties of parenting equally?
They could, but if they did, they would be leaving money on the table, often quite a lot. The 50-50 couple might be happier, but would be poorer. If an individual has children or some other family responsibilities, someone has to be on-call at home, even if that person has a job. The on-call at home person will take a position that has more flexibility and is less demanding and, in consequence, pays less even on a per hour basis. Women are generally the ones who are on-call at home and Men are on -call at Office .
This book described the key points lively and entertaining,Moreover as Nobel Prize Winning economist and there is considerable Scientific , Statistical evidence in the book. It Affirms that gender inequity is still around and is not a simple problem that government, via taxes and mandates, can fix. #CTA : there is a role for government in making the caring economy easier for its hardest working members.
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