About 2% of females earn more university degrees than males, makes up slightly more than half the Canadian population and workforce yet still make $0.82 for every $1 the male earns in the work environment. This wage gap is the 8th largest among OECD countries as the difference expands for Native females and queer women of colour.
Gender roles and stereotypes are destructive to the progression of the human race because these labels and standards restrict sexes within fictional boundaries.
Fathers are at a significant disadvantage in obtaining custody rights as only 6.6% of males have exclusive custody whilst 79.3% of mothers have exclusive custody. This gap does not justify or validate the argument that the father may be …show more content…
A female will be more qualified than a male for a job yet still earn less than him for the same work. What kind of future is this manufacturing when women are essentially denied power despite their qualifications and knowledge simply due to their sex?
The sports industry works against females as only 4% of sports programming and 5% of media print are devoted to female athletics. Even within these small percentages, females experience sports coverage that consists of anything but their actual athletics because the media considers their “competition outfit or hair” the most engaging aspect of their athletic ability. Furthermore, 99.6% of sponsorship money goes towards the male sports industry.
What message are these facts sending to girls wishing to pursue a sport as their career? Society clearly doesn’t believe in the strength and power of females when it comes to athleticism due to age-old slogan, “you throw like a girl” and the exposure female athletes deserve, but are denied of, simply because they are women regardless of their athletic ability.