"The Truth About Boys & Girls"
Using Correlations between Gender and Earning
By Jonathan G. Simeon
Posted January 24, 2008
The article was third of a series telling more about the disadvantages of a woman compared to a man at the present time. The writer being a woman herself did not bother to hide anything that would discredit the statutes of women today but of pure heart and valid evidences, revealed in her findings the awakening truth about the sleeping ladies of this generation. The writer did an objective and unbiased report not looking at things to hide most specially to their male counterparts. She even made something that would arouse people to think twice on hiring women in comtrust to their dominating male counterparts.
In this article, the correlation between earnings and sexes got the focus of the report, which speaks a lot of a demeaning situation for ladies. For example, data revealed that the average salary of women workers is almost 25% lower even a year after college when both sexes make their start in the workplace. The gap keeps widening significantly as the year goes on after graduation from college.
Some factors that were determined to raise this issue were the biased employment opportunity for ladies against men. But their male counterparts were able to argue these for the following reasons; the article report says that women generally don't ask for pay hikes. Women tend to busy themselves with housework and workloads that concerns most on house matters. While the female bosses were often evaluated as “Office Mom’s” and when ladies get into entrepreneurship, more often they are already late with the boys.
My reaction to this report is more of a defense to the ladies, as they concern themselves more with “support” not only with males but most especially with their children. In the context of the Filipino culture, it is very evident that ladies would rather spend time supporting their partners so that men can focus more on their efficiencies at work rather than compete with their partners when it comes to their salaries. In a culture like ours, it is even disheartening for a man to learn that his wife’s earning is greater than that of his. So why compete in terms of earnings? It is totally absurd for females to push and compete with their counterparts when at the very end they know that the effect would dictate a disastrous impact to their husband and to their family.
In this article, the correlation between earnings and sexes got the focus of the report, which speaks a lot of a demeaning situation for ladies. For example, data revealed that the average salary of women workers is almost 25% lower even a year after college when both sexes make their start in the workplace. The gap keeps widening significantly as the year goes on after graduation from college.
Some factors that were determined to raise this issue were the biased employment opportunity for ladies against men. But their male counterparts were able to argue these for the following reasons; the article report says that women generally don't ask for pay hikes. Women tend to busy themselves with housework and workloads that concerns most on house matters. While the female bosses were often evaluated as “Office Mom’s” and when ladies get into entrepreneurship, more often they are already late with the boys.
My reaction to this report is more of a defense to the ladies, as they concern themselves more with “support” not only with males but most especially with their children. In the context of the Filipino culture, it is very evident that ladies would rather spend time supporting their partners so that men can focus more on their efficiencies at work rather than compete with their partners when it comes to their salaries. In a culture like ours, it is even disheartening for a man to learn that his wife’s earning is greater than that of his. So why compete in terms of earnings? It is totally absurd for females to push and compete with their counterparts when at the very end they know that the effect would dictate a disastrous impact to their husband and to their family.
I would assess that ladies have the capacity to get their desired earnings, equivalent or even higher to their male counterparts if situations would allow them to focus only on work, forgetting all about house matters. However, this is not what nature teaches us. As the Bible explicitly states in Genesis 2:18 “…now the Lord God said “I will make a helpmeet suitable for him”…” a help meet meaning that the woman’s obligation lies with her husband before anything else and not any of the concerns about pay gaps. For me, it is not safe to rely on correlations between pay gaps and sexes like to what was raised in this argument because of man’s diversity of functions. Ladies work attitudes and performances are to be seen in the light of how they were created and must not be seen only as a variable of correlation showing their weaknesses or strengths over men, just like how men would not want themselves to be compared with women in terms of sensitive issues affecting their sentiments on genders.
It will never be safe to assume as well that ladies will have better earnings also in the future as there are no variables that can measure the depths and recesses of a woman’s heart that would stop her from supporting a man. As it always been the case, women will continue to provide support, understanding and love to man though it may seem as an abasement of herself. Ladies may not be highly paid now but they can always be regarded as priceless that no pay standard can ever match. Their labor of love in support of men and in building families and the kind of people that we now have in our nation are the missing links in correlating between genders. It is not in terms of pay gaps and earnings because men and women themselves are precious even without their earnings. One’s value for support, love and care can never be measured on the basis of pay gaps.
