A few months ago we learned that Robin Wright, the protagonist of House of CardsHe had to fight to get the same salary as his co-star Kevin Spacey, both being equally popular in the series. A few days ago, it was Natalie Portman who revealed that she had been paid a third of what Ashton Kutcher perceived in the same movie.
In Spain it is estimated that the difference between wages, when compared to women 's men, is close to 24%. Well, it is not something that begins at the moment that men and women begin to work, but it has been seen that it begins already in childhood: boys receive more pay than girls.
20% more pay when they are small
As we read in El Mundo, a study conducted in the United Kingdom with more than 2,000 children between the ages of 5 and 16 demonstrates a more than obvious difference in the treatment of children, in terms of pay.
Children perceive 20% more pay than girls, the average being 12.59 euros for boys, compared with 10 euros for girls.
And 30% when they are older
As children grow up, the difference is not only not blurred, but it grows even more. In preadolescence and adolescence (between 11 and 16 years), this difference reaches up to 30%, when the average is set at 14.5 euros for girls, and 20.64 euros for boys.
Jenny Ehren, director of research at Childwise, the company that conducted the study, explains the conclusions in this way:
The results of the study show an imbalance in the way in which parents educate their children about economic independence. Boys receive money on a regular basis while girls depend more on their parents, who buy them things or manage their money.
The difference is attenuated with material things
According to the researchers, boys are more economically independent because they have more money to spend on whatever they want, while girls have less, by earmarking money for the purchase of material things like clothing, shoes and beauty products.
That is, the parents invest in things for their daughters and that is why they give them less pay, instead of giving the same money to the girls as the boys and leaving them the freedom to administer it.
Again in Ehren's words:
Children perceive these gender differences; some are subtle and others not so much (...) We must help children acquire the necessary skills to become confident and independent adults, whatever their sex.
In this sense, and as a father, I cannot say much because I don't have daughters, and I don't pay my children. If they need anything, we buy it. And if they think they need something, but we prefer not to buy it, we explain the reasons.
In any case, if we did, if we gave them pay and there were girls at home, I see more logical give the same to both and that with it they are administered, that create the difference by the fact that girls ask more for certain things. I would do so, basically, because I consider that children also ask for their own: falling fully into a stereotype, and to give an example, there are children who do not want beauty products but do a video game console, and parents often buy it without much resistance because they also like to play, being money that is not deducted from pay.
