Gender Inequality In Society Today

Although gender inequality is still common today it was a much bigger social problem years ago. People lived very stereotypical lives which some continue to live. Different jobs may automatically reflect a person’s gender within society for example, even within the health care occupations men usually have the higher status jobs such as consultants whereas nurses are seen as being females, as it’s a job of caring nature and the likes of farmers and carpenters are seen as being the occupations of males as they involved outdoor, physical work.

Childrens story books and their toys also determine their gender and creates them with an ideal image and lifestyle of their own gender from a young age. Dolls are associated with girls, they demonstrate

Males are more likely to get lung cancer, cardiovascular disease and are also more likely to commit suicide. Females on the other hand are more likely to have arthritis and have depression as well as dementia. Females are also associated with cervical cancer and males with prostate cancer, as it is it their sexual organs that determine that whereas they both can suffer from breast cancer even though it is more associated with females. A person’s health can be determined by many factors including their age, the life they live, genes and finance, as the more finance a person has the better quality of life they can live. These can all vary basically depending on their gender.

Clearly woman have not got gender equality as only 4 countries have achieved gender equality. Social Inequalities

“Social inequality is the existence of unequal opportunities and rewards for different social positions or statuses within a group or society. Social inequality has several important dimensions. Income is the earnings from work or investments, while wealth is the total value of money and other assets minus debts. Other important dimensions include power, occupational prestige, schooling, ancestry, and race and ethnicity.” (Moffitt, 2003-2018)

Your job affects everything in your life. A person could have all the qualifications in the world and still not be seen as to be entitled for the position based on their gender and the role that they are believed to play within society. They pay gap obviously effects women more so then the men. Many people who are high up in the employment ladder tender to be from an older generation and of a male gender were the women were seen as caregivers, stay at home mothers etc.

Obviously if the female stays at home to mind children and look after the home and the male is the breadwinner well then he will have more money earned. This is the traditional way of life in Ireland and not many people live this way anymore and therefore it should not be an excuse to use when it comes to giving a reason for the gender pay gap.

“Median hourly earnings for females in October 2009 were €16.83, 10.8% lower than the median recorded for males.” (Central Statistic Office, 2018) The use of the word median by the CSO may be to not make the pay gap seem so bad. “Males are more significantly represented in higher earnings than females.” (Central Statistic Office,