Latin American Assignment
I decided to do my latin american assignment based on gender inequality. I read two articles regarding this topic, one from Latin America, and one from the United States. After reading both articles, I found that both Latin America and the US have some similarities and differences when it came to gender inequality in their country.
In America, gender inequality really applies more to the women then men. In America women are underprivileged with workpay. For every dollar that a man makes, a woman only makes 79 cents. This may not seem like a lot at the moment, but as time passes women in America are actually losing so much money that they potentially have earned, due to their gender. Studies show that women in America tend to be under the man more, they don't have the courage to actually step up for themselves due to the fact that most men in America have the higher status quo, thus making them more intimated.
Although, through this unjustified situation, there have been women such as, Lilly Ledbetter, who have stepped out and advocate for all women everywhere. In 2009, Lilly passed on a bill to congress regarding equal pay for equal work. She's not the only one who is willing to stand up for equality throughout AMerica, there have been other bills trying to get passed containing the same ideas with equal pay, or treatment throughout their workspace. What is unfortunate about America is that whenever a woman does seem to stand up and speak her voice, she is often looked at as “high demanding”, or “negative”.
The simple image of women in America that our society has created for us tells people everywhere that women are supposed to be the ones that take the easy route, women are suppose to stay home and cook. As to a man in America, he shall never need to worry about being questioned by a higher authority when doing something, he isn't judged by his gender, this is a privileged woman in America face throughout their life.
In Latin America, women are also facing the same, underprivileged that women ace in America. In latin america, women only earn up sixty percent to then what would a man make, ninety percent when it comes to equal pay. There aren't that many differences between women in America, and women in Latin America. Technically, it still all comes down to what your gender is when you want a higher pay. Women in Latin America are showed to be stuck in workplaces that tend to be informal and unprotected. Research shows that women in latin america tend to work at home with their family, some families work with their own small business while they could be taking care of their children. Like american women, research shows that the women in america are more likely to give up work if their family is need rather than the man.
After reading both of these articles and noticing the many similarities that Latin america, and America have facing gender inequality, I'm not that surprised. I feel like I already had some sort of an idea that women everywhere are being treated the same due to our gender. I think that it's absolutely absurd that being a women in anywhere shows that we don't really earn what we could be having for our full potential. I hope that something does change with throughout the whole world, I know as of right now that bills are trying to be passed throughout the US. I realized that no matter where you are, all women everywhere are going through the same thing, it's a matter of when all of us come together to speak our voices and beat the average statistics.
In America, gender inequality really applies more to the women then men. In America women are underprivileged with workpay. For every dollar that a man makes, a woman only makes 79 cents. This may not seem like a lot at the moment, but as time passes women in America are actually losing so much money that they potentially have earned, due to their gender. Studies show that women in America tend to be under the man more, they don't have the courage to actually step up for themselves due to the fact that most men in America have the higher status quo, thus making them more intimated.
Although, through this unjustified situation, there have been women such as, Lilly Ledbetter, who have stepped out and advocate for all women everywhere. In 2009, Lilly passed on a bill to congress regarding equal pay for equal work. She's not the only one who is willing to stand up for equality throughout AMerica, there have been other bills trying to get passed containing the same ideas with equal pay, or treatment throughout their workspace. What is unfortunate about America is that whenever a woman does seem to stand up and speak her voice, she is often looked at as “high demanding”, or “negative”.
The simple image of women in America that our society has created for us tells people everywhere that women are supposed to be the ones that take the easy route, women are suppose to stay home and cook. As to a man in America, he shall never need to worry about being questioned by a higher authority when doing something, he isn't judged by his gender, this is a privileged woman in America face throughout their life.
In Latin America, women are also facing the same, underprivileged that women ace in America. In latin america, women only earn up sixty percent to then what would a man make, ninety percent when it comes to equal pay. There aren't that many differences between women in America, and women in Latin America. Technically, it still all comes down to what your gender is when you want a higher pay. Women in Latin America are showed to be stuck in workplaces that tend to be informal and unprotected. Research shows that women in latin america tend to work at home with their family, some families work with their own small business while they could be taking care of their children. Like american women, research shows that the women in america are more likely to give up work if their family is need rather than the man.
After reading both of these articles and noticing the many similarities that Latin america, and America have facing gender inequality, I'm not that surprised. I feel like I already had some sort of an idea that women everywhere are being treated the same due to our gender. I think that it's absolutely absurd that being a women in anywhere shows that we don't really earn what we could be having for our full potential. I hope that something does change with throughout the whole world, I know as of right now that bills are trying to be passed throughout the US. I realized that no matter where you are, all women everywhere are going through the same thing, it's a matter of when all of us come together to speak our voices and beat the average statistics.