The gap is not the space between platform and train at a station - it is the gap of equality in our workplace between men and women. That gap represents various aspects in our current work environment: gap in wages, gap in respect, gap in opportunity, gaps upon gaps. According to Stats Canada (2011) for every one dollar a full-time working male earned, his female counterpart earned just seventy-one cents!
That gap prevents women from standing up and walking away when they are treated unfairly, it stops them from complaining about work-place harassment, it is a permanent road block for our future success, and that of our daughters.
I truly believe that our upcoming generation of "Gen X" and "Gen Y" want equality, want fairness, want dollar for dollar. I want to believe that my younger sister upon her MBA graduation from Queen's University this spring will make just as much as her male classmates, and she should. It is only fair. So let's close this gap, it is time.
xo vagi
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