Most high-level positions in companies are filled by men even though the workforce in many developed countries is more than 50 percent female. Companies should be required to allocate a certain percentage of these positions to women. Do you agree?

It is argued that corporations should be compelled to give a certain proportion of their executive level roles to females given that that over half of the workforce is female in the West. It is agreed that businesses should be obliged to assign a significant percentage of top-level posts to women.

This

essay will discuss

firstly

, that women should be paid an equal amount of money for doing the same job as a man, and

secondly

, the fact that girls are currently outperforming boys on many university courses; followed by a reasoned conclusion. Despite years of so-called ‘equal rights’ for women in the

workplace they

Accept comma addition

workplace, they

continue to be underpaid. Many women who do exactly the same job as their male colleagues earn less money and

this

is unfair.

For example

, a recent survey of accountancy and legal firms in the United Kingdom found that women earn on average 17% less than men with identical roles.

However

,

this

may be due to women taking maternity leave and falling behind their male counterparts.

This

unfairness

is compounded

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are compounded

by the fact that females are currently getting higher grades in most university courses. Even previously male-dominated fields,

such

as law and medicine, now see women in the ascendency and they should,

therefore

, be rewarded with top roles.

For example

, females recently outperformed males for the

first

time in law in

U

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the U

.K.

universities

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Universities

. Despite

this

, employers should bear in mind that roles should be handed out on merit, not gender alone. In conclusion, women do deserve an equal share of the good jobs available, namely because they are capable of doing an equally good job as men and are achieving higher academic standards than men at university. It is recommended that companies heed the advice in

this

essay and make their hiring practices fairer.