Do women really developed in society?

Nowadays, women won a large space in the economy, in politics, in sports and in all sectors of society. We broke with many social barriers and prejudices historically consolidated. All these achievements have been acquired with many struggles of gender. However, despite this great progress, we still see women in many companies exercising the same function as men and earning a lower salary.

This social stereotype formed in our minds that women should earn lower wages, is the fact that historically the man was seen as the breadwinner and that the woman would not work for remuneration, but only take care of the children and the house and when they ventured to work payment would be complementary character.

And according to false rooted conception in current society, we have differences of gender, as shown “Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE)” about “women in the labor market” released in 2009, women continue to earn less than men, although we've increased our education, either the basic or higher education, equating to men. Other research, conducted by the Inter-American Development Bank – IDB, shows that despite the recent economic growth and policies to reduce inequalities, wage differences related to gender and ethnicity remain significant in Latin American countries.

I believe in these statements, there is a lot of prejudice that we must overcome, however I come back to the idea that women are thriving in almost every sector of our society, as the sports, politics, companies etc and in many cases these pay differences do not exist, for example in my job, which is in the public sector, eveyone earns the same salary, which varies is the level of education and position.

I would like to end this article emphasizing that we women had great victories and we are increasingly conquering our space, but for this to become a reality, and our rights are equivalent to the man, it´s necessary we continue fighting and discussing the issue.