It’s provenin the world women earn 28% less than men for the same work. The factors are many, but the numbers indicate an undeniable inequality. In addition to the fact that we are poorer, most of our jobs are related to care and cleaning. Jobs underestimated by a productive world that managed to ignore these tasks and thus exploit them.
Most of the workers in restaurants and customer service in USA they are women, many of them single mothers of Afro-Latino descent. The protesters, including the artist, wore t-shirts with the legend: “Mothers demand a fair wage.”
In this case, two realities are mixed that we share with the country of the 50 states and also with the entire world: the invisibility of care and the precariousness of the only jobs found by those who have little free time due to their own upbringing. In Argentina, the labor market punishes women who are mothers, the more children they have, the lower the salary and the less access to formal and full-time employment.
For example, in 2022, a special report prepared by the Congressional Budget Office indicated that a woman with three or more children had 15% less likely to work outside the home than a woman who is not a mother and a relative salary 18% lower. I mean, the gap not only exists between women and men but also between women with or without children.
The outlook is grim and Susan Sarandon he knows. The protests that took place in the New York Capitolwere made after a new minimum wage increase (to $17 an hour) was approved that excludes restaurant workers. Over 70% of the industry in the US is made up of women, but unsurprisingly only 30% hold management or executive positions.
In our country women are majority in the sectors of domestic service (97.2%), health (72.3%) y education (71.5%). In fact, almost 4 out of 10 employed women are inserted in one of these three sectors. Men, for their part, are located in the sectors of the industry (64.5%), transportation (85.8%) o construction (96.8%). And although many of these items are precarious, those that are destined to women are paid worse than the rest.
Sarandon, 76, is part of the organization One Fair Wage that participates in different interventions related to the rights of workers. In 2008 he went through a similar situation in Washington when He protested for the rights of migrants. Guess who is in the majority in US immigration and they have a doubly horrible time: of course, yes, women.
Both United Nations as different international organizations reinforce that the wage gap is one of the most naturalized and decisive forms of violence and that there are still more than two hundred years to finish with it. If we add to this societies that continue to make care work or work at home invisible, the years become centuries.
Gender inequality in employment exists all over the world. and the numbers help to understand, at least, where we stand. Far away for now. Still, not all is darkness: Susan Sarandon He’s free now and he’s fine.
