Should Women Complain About Pay Inequality?

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With many articles surfacing recently about the pay inequalities between men and women, I have been asking myself a few questions. Most of the people who are commenting on the article posted in Portfolio are saying that women should stop complaining about inequalities in salaries. They say that women have come a long way, and that it is time to focus on bigger issues in society. Now I have personally been on both sides of the fence, when it comes to the salary differences that are still being observed between men and women in the workforce. I do believe that how much money men and women earn should not be our main priority, when there are starving children, global warming and animal extinctions around the world. Yet at the same time, I can’t help but look at the numbers and realize that women are not equal in our society. This brings up the question of what equality means and what we should be striving for when it comes to an acceptable balance between the sexes. Continue reading »