Well, here it is, my "first blog". And I guess I'm going to start out talking about something that has been bothering me for a while....the lack of concern there is for equal pay in the workforce.
It has been proven time and time again that women compared with men (when both sexes have the same amount of education) make substantially less.
Okay, maybe that would be plausible if women had less needs than men....BUT WE DON'T HAVE LESS NEEDS!
In fact, we have more. For some reason, and I don't know why, women's clothes seem to cost more than men's. Not only that, but (and I don't mean to gross people out) we have to pay for tampons EVERY month. Its not like its something thats "optional". Its a necessity, its not like its something we can go without.
Also, when was the last time that you went into the grocery store and the cashier said, "Oh, and because you're a woman and you make less than men for the same job, you're bread will be $2.00 instead of $4.00." It would never happen, and yet even women its seems, don't care that much about something that should hit hard.
Virginia Woolf wrote an essay entitled "A Room of One's Own". Now there's an example of a woman who was ahead of her time. In this essay, she claims that if William Shakespeare had a sister who was just as talented as he was, she would not have been successful. Not because of her talents, but because of that fact that she would not have been a man.
I'm sorry that I went all feminist on you all; but, after all, I am a woman so I should care if my rights as a equal human being are being abuse. Because the bottom line is that my argument is not just about women. It's about the fact that we are all human beings and we should all be treated like we are. I shouldn't matter what the color of the skin is, what sex we are, what religion we are or anything of that nature. It might be a dream of mine that we will all one day just see each other as people without labeling some as "weaker". Maybe if my dream were to come true, schooling would be equal and so would pay. Even though I don't foresee my dream coming true anytime soon, doesn't mean we shouldn't stop trying to peruse change.
The dream is coming true. Just imagine the challenges that women had to face in the last 100 years. we gain suffrage, equal opportunities. we have become lawyers,doctors, scientists. even now you probably have more opportunities than you mother when she was growing up.
we do not get paid as much as males because we continued to be viewed as the "weaker" sex. statistically, we choose "softer" jobs like nursing, and teaching. what we need to do and what we are doing is train for more prestigious jobs.
It always upsets me that teaching is not viewed as prestigious, even though we educate all the people who have "prestigious" jobs. Every biologist, doctor, lawyer, judge, politician, etc., had to go to school and be educated by a teacher.
Leave Canada, please - Canadian Dude