The Glass Ceiling

I recently did a post in class about how the Glass Ceiling effect was present in the finance industry in the UK, and it motivated me to make a blog post about how there should be enforced laws that deal with this kind of crap. The article dealt with how women in the finance industry specifically in the UK were making 20% less in their salaries then men, even with the same qualifications. When I presented it in class, I was given some good feedback on how to get rid of the glass ceiling. The one that stuck out the most was how the only way that we can fix this, is to have people that think that it needs to be removed in charge of the companies that have these sort of things happening in them. Having a women in charge of one of these companies in my opinion would get rid of the salary differences between men and women. People shouldn't get payed more or less because of their gender, its morally wrong and we should have moved past this point a long time ago.

Another way that we could get rid of the Glass Ceiling is by introducing laws that force companies to pay fair salaries or give companies incentives to pay fair salaries like a small tax break for companies if they are able to prove that they pay all of their employees equally, and provide equal opportunity for their employees. It is hard to deal with the glass ceiling because it's hard to prove that companies are actually avoiding promoting certain employees of a different gender or race. It seems like there are always people suing because of the glass ceiling effect, so why haven't we made laws that can combat this horrific problem? I think that if we were able to get rid of this burden on people's jobs we would see many more people show their true potential, and it would allow for people to get their ideas shown.