Gender Discrimination

around the world

All about women’s opportunities and barriers between women and men

1. Why might women have poor job opportunities?

What is gender
discrimination?
Women may be given poor opportunities in jobs
because they are married. This is because women may spend Also known as
more time on family and children than men. Women may be sexism, gender
given poor job opportunities because they have lack education. discrimination
In families that are in Africa, the parents are more likely to is prejudice or
spend the money on their sons’ education rather than on their discrimination
daughters’ so this can also affect their job applying. based on one’s
gender. Gender
Even if women and men have the same education, there are still discrimination
differences.
can affect
Women choose different jobs than men.
anyone, but it
Women have different interests than men, for example, women primarily
are more likely to study liberal art, while men are more likely to affects women
study science, math, etc. They have different interests so they and girls. It can
would choose different jobs. also relate to
gender
Women take a 7% wage cut per child. stereotypes and
If both males and females have the same level of education, in gender roles.
the same occupation in the same sector working full-time, there
is not much of a wage difference. But if both males and females
have a kid, the wage gap could start growing.
 2. Women’s opportunities in
Canada
Education
In Ontario, the gender gap in education
is quite small but in Western Provinces
like Alberta or Saskatchewan, the
gender gap in education is really big.
Overall, in Canada, women are much
more likely to complete a tertiary
education (a level of education) while
men are more likely to have an
apprenticeship or a Ph.D. (a level of
education). This is because the gender
gap in education (typically in Canada)
is too big so that the on average,
women are more likely to complete
tertiary education.
Jobs
In Canada, there are some jobs that
women are dominating. For example,
many women become nurse
practitioners. Women had taken up 87%
of the job there. As nurse practitioners,
they can earn as much as $110,773
yearly and the average is $88,034
annual salary.
3. Barriers between women and
men
The biggest barrier for women in paid
work is family responsibilities
(especially when a woman is married or
has a child) Women need to do the
cooking, cleaning, and also childcare
while they also have to work.
Some barriers for women in paid work
can also be workplace culture, lack of
female leaders, gender discrimination,
gender stereotype, lack of flexible work
practices and also affordability and
accessibility of childcare.
Furthermore, lack of commitment from
leaders and executive team toward
gender diversity, lack of support among
women, women’s lack of self-
confidence and lack of sponsorship for
women in workspaces, difficulty in
juggling work and personal life
(particularly caring responsibilities for
children and aged parents) may also be
barriers to equality for women in jobs.
 4. Discrimination women face in
different countries
In Australia, women faced a little gender
discrimination.
In Yemen, women had faced a lot of
discrimination
In Australia, women can access a great education,
it is the same for women and men get a job in
Australia. They are been protected very well
from violence.
In Yemen, there is a lack of education for women,
it is very hard for them to build credit and getting
a job. Women are not been protected from
violence in this country.
5. Who can change women’s
opportunities?
Some kind of big company have the
power to change women’s
opportunity. Female activist or leaders
also have this kind of power.
In Canada, the government works
with different companies that help
support women’s rights. Although this
may not fix the issue it will help raise
awareness about it and support it.