Today in the UK is Equal Pay day where because of the pay gap between genders, women are effectively working for free for the rest of the year because of the gap that exists in gender pay.
Sometimes I don't understand this backwards thinking, women's equality should just be a given right? Women getting paid the same as men for the same job that they do should just be a given right? Who along the line decided that men where the dominate gender? I don't understand this world that in 2017, women's rights and equality is still something that actually has to be bloody campaigned for. Sometimes this world disappoints me regarding to policies like this.
Theresa May has revealed her plans to bridge the gap by making firms and companies publish their rate of pay for both genders which admittedly in theory is a good idea but we are still waiting on her efforts. You would think as a woman and as the Prime Minister, women's rights and equality would be at the top of her agenda but we have had two Female Prime Ministers and we are still at the situation that we have today and it is a scandal.
Labour has previously pledged to bridge the gap with high profile figures taking the opportunity to tweet about it on this day, which again, when women's rights and women's pay relating to men is something that has to be pledged by a government, it really shows us what kind of world we really live in.
I really hope that for the good of my gender, this situation is resolved sooner rather then later and that with our female minister, she would actually take the time to care about women's rights but giving £1b to Northern Ireland's DUP to save her government, a party that has previously voted against women's rights and is against the right to an healthy and safe abortion, I really doubt it.
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