The position of women has changed a great deal in many societies over the past 50 years. But these societies cannot claim to have achieved gender equality. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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women

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improved since 1970.

However

, some people argue that these changes are not sufficient for them to be deemed equal

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men

. As I will explain below, I believe that we should continue our efforts to contribute to more equality, in order to reach it.

First

of all, according to several statistics,

women

are paid less than

men

for the same job and

qualification

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.

This

inequality is

therefore

unjustified. In order to unbalance the situation, some governments have recently introduced quotas within the administration or national companies.

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with

such

rules may,

however

, lead to positive discrimination by recruiting unqualified

women

, and

finally

results in more inequality.

Furthermore

, the lack of equality is emphasized by the very low number of

women

as chairman or

member

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of the board of directors of listed companies. Indeed, in many developed

countries

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it has been proven that it is more difficult for

women

, with the same qualification as

men

, to find a job with high responsibilities, which can have a negative impact on their salary as explained above. The reason is that due to the risk of pregnancy, employers usually prefer to enrol a man rather than a woman for

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high level

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. In order to reduce

this

inequality, we shall introduce, or at least extend

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father’s

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parental leave. In conclusion, due to the fact that

men

receive higher wages and have more

chance

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to achieve a better career, I strongly argue that our societies have not yet reached sex equality.

Nevertheless

, we should stress

on

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the improvement

on

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the

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women

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condition over the

last

decades, which shall continue.