PAY GAP BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN

 

 

Very often we hear about the fact that women are paid less for doing the same job as men, which means women are paid less just for being women. But why does this happen?

It wasn’t very long ago that most women didn’t work outside the home at all. In 1950s there weren’t very many women in the workforce and the women there were were  often not as well educated as the men. 70% of them had menial job on factory assembly lines or in office and the only professional job was  teaching. Discrimination against women was also totally legal, allowing employers to put out job listing for men only.

WOMEN'S RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS

 

Islamic women

In Islamic countries a woman’s life seems to be less worthy than that of a man. For example, in a court of law, a woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man’s. Furthermore, if a woman were to be murdered the compensation for the family would be half that for the murder of a man. In Islam, women are permitted only one spouse; however, men may have up to 4 wives. In addition, the legal age for girls to marry is just nine years old, but boys are allowed only after the age of fourteen. As a result, pedophiles are able to exploit and subsequently leave young girls.

BEING A WOMAN IN THE REGENCY ERA: SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, THE MOVIE

Sense and Sensibility is a 1995 drama movie directed by Ang Lee.The movie is based on the homonymous novel written by Jane Austen and published in 1811.

The movie, through the story of the Dashwood family, narrates of complex relations between money, inheritance, love and marriage in the Regency Era.