When you look around, everywhere you go there will be women. We are very essential to this world. It is statistically true that more women live on this earth than men, even though more men are born. At a young age, women are taught to cook, clean, and take care of the children. Men are taught to work hard, go to school to make a lot of money, and take care of the family financially. Even though these standards are influenced in the children today, there is a difference between the way life was back then and now. More children today don’t live in a 2-parent home. In actuality, more women are the head of their household. Women should have the opportunity to have the same type of job, get paid the same, and treated fairly on the jobs that were given.
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“Full time working woman earn just 78 cents for every dollar a man earns” ("Did You Know That Women Are Still Paid Less Than Men?"). That is not a lot when you look at it from that point of view. But when you look at it as a yearly salary that is a big difference. Manny women, i.e. single mothers, would need that extra $2,000 or more a year to take care of their family. In 2014, there was a study to determine what the median annual wages for both male and female over all 50 states. In the state of Alabama, there is approximately a $12,000 difference between a man and a woman’s income (The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap). Women just want equality. Some don’t like coming second to a man. The only bad thing about having the income gap equalized, men will not feel like they are the breadwinner or the provider. But now in this society more women are becoming independent and not wanting to live like everyone did in the past. It’s sad that many people in poverty are the ones that are not a 2-parent home. Women need to provide for their family if a man isn’t
Today, it’s a lot of …show more content…
“Full time working woman earn just 78 cents for every dollar a man earns” ("Did You Know That Women Are Still Paid Less Than Men?"). That is not a lot when you look at it from that point of view. But when you look at it as a yearly salary that is a big difference. Manny women, i.e. single mothers, would need that extra $2,000 or more a year to take care of their family. In 2014, there was a study to determine what the median annual wages for both male and female over all 50 states. In the state of Alabama, there is approximately a $12,000 difference between a man and a woman’s income (The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap). Women just want equality. Some don’t like coming second to a man. The only bad thing about having the income gap equalized, men will not feel like they are the breadwinner or the provider. But now in this society more women are becoming independent and not wanting to live like everyone did in the past. It’s sad that many people in poverty are the ones that are not a 2-parent home. Women need to provide for their family if a man isn’t