APRIL 29 — Aisyah, a human resource officer in a national airlines company, was retrenched after 15 years with them. From a two-income household, living a comfortable life, she and her family are now struggling to make ends meet. The house loan that was affordable before has now become a huge...
Wednesday, 29 Apr 2020 02:59 PM MYT— Aisyah, a human resource officer in a national airlines company, was retrenched after 15 years with them. From a two-income household, living a comfortable life, she and her family are now struggling to make ends meet. The house loan that was affordable before has now become a huge burden. For the last five years she has been job-hunting, but for a woman in her 40s, this is not easy.
The stories above illustrate the fact that a woman’s experience as a worker is an extremely gendered experience. Women face additional vulnerabilities and discrimination due to gender discrimination and stereotypes. People fail to realise that these deep-rooted notions of gender and stereotypical roles for women often force women to be engaged in precarious work.
An example of this discrimination is the gender wage gap which prevails in all countries regardless of income status. According to the, women earn 77 per cent of men’s wages.
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