A2 MDG gender equality

VG
Course: MDG
October 2
To: Representative Larry Bucshon

Icelandic Jafnrétti
(Icelandic language for; Icelandic Equality)

Iceland has been the number one country for three years in a row for gender equality. With the U.S. in 22nd place, it can be easily said that the United States have much to learn from them. Iceland has been said ban strip clubs and pornography because of how demeaning it is to women. The wage gap between male and female has went from 82.4% to about 90% of similarity. This is a definite improvement considering how the United States has some jobs where women get only 20% as much as the men and generally only 75% as much as them too.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to fill out America's wage share. So
 in many parts of the U.S. women are paid 20% as much. or less, than the men.

Dear U.S. Representative Bucshon,


As the representative of Indiana, which neighbors Illinois of which I am sending this letter from, there are things here in the United States that have bothered me and one of those would be gender inequality. Iceland is the number country for gender equality and has been for 3 years in a row (this year, 2013, has not been recorded yet). Iceland has many laws and regulations that make me convinced that it is the best country for gender equality. For one, any demeaning or stereotypical media and content, like strip clubs and pornography, are strictly prohibited due to how biased it essentially is. Also, wages between genders in general jobs are very close to equal.

That percentage of similarity was 87% in 2003 and went up to about 90% in 2007. Iceland remained as the number one country for equality ever since 2009. So the United States has much to learn, especially considering that media views are expected in real life, how everything should be perfect. So in conclusion, the U.S. has to treat women equally in order to truly have a free country because despite how women have full rights over themselves, the public is being influenced that they actually only have one small purpose in life; reproduction.

Why is this broadcasted widely through all sorts of programs and channels in America? Something like this is just unfair and unequal to women, even more so when they’re paid less for their contributions of work. Someone should be changing this because inequality is still going on to this day (year 2013). All equal rights were “achieved” long ago and made official by the government, but inequality is still among us now.