Position Paper Topic A - Isabella Perches

Topic: Establishing and Enforcing Wage Parity Between Genders

Country: Mexico

Delegate: Isabella Perches

Committee: Commission of the Status of Women

Nowadays, parity between genders affects several things in the world including all human behavior. Men tend to work longer hours, and women tend to help around the house and spend time educating their children. Women enjoy educating their children but would appreciate the opportunity to work and to make money by their own and men educate their children too. But the problem here is that employers are not being equal in the aspect of the compensations of women and man. When women get the opportunity to work, they work harder or the same and they don’t receive the same salary as men. People think that women and men are not the same, and that they don’t have equal value, they don’t give that much importance to women. If we reduce the discrimination or the gender inequality women’s rights would rise and poverty between families could decrease. This shouldn’t be a problem for men since their economic class would raise. In some countries like Saudi Arabia people are not paying women a good salary and they dot have enough money to live. Saudi Arabia is doing their best to let know all of their people what is going on and give the chance to women to have a better value.

Mexico is completely in favor to accomplish quality between genders. They have problems in the equal pay gap. They don’t give that importance to women and they don’t give the same salary .My delegation position is that they are in favor of gender equality for the citizens are not following it. They are not respecting women rights. Women in Mexico face considerable discrimination and problems in the workplace, and they are earning less than their male partners. The poor employment in Mexico and their opportunities for women, force many of them to migrate overseas, where they gain low-paid employment because if they stay here, they wont have enough money to live or to take care of them.

My delegation strongly suggests eliminating gender inequality and decreasing women’s reliance on informal employment and closing gender gaps, also it is to increase women’s share of seats in national parliaments and local government bodies. We need to combat violence against girls and women. The best thing we could do is to but advertisements all over the streets to let everyone know the problem in which we are in, and the ways to stop it. We also need to set gender inequality issues as a priority in many public agendas.