Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Have neoliberal economic policies made life better or worse for women?

- We all know that having a job these days it's important, due to the fact that we gain an income which is money. In order to be able to live, we all need money to begin with and we invest that into working or anything similar that makes us earn money. However, when it comes to the question if neoliberalism has made life for women easier or harder, it all comes down to the role women in the society have. They're seen as "lower" than men, not worthy for equal payments or even have caused severe gender inequality.

- The simple answer related to the question in the title is that, neoliberals have in fact made life worse for women. Compare to the past, even in these days we're living in, women still are not equal to men even jobs wise. They get told what and what not to do because those jobs "aren't for women" implying some severe gender roles here, let alone the payments they get. It's already obvious enough that men get much more than women, and they almost dominate everything no matter what. There's also some weird double standards going on, just because someone happens to just be a woman. To me, no, the neoliberals have not made life easier for women but rather, they've made it harder to just get a decent and good income. Making it hard to live as a woman, more than it already was.

- Bleona Dragoti.


2 comments:

  1. Thanks for your post. You mentioned that there are "some weird double standards going on, just because someone happens to just be a woman." Could you please give a few more examples of double standards?

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    1. The double standards i mentioned are related to how women are treated and judged differently in everyday life even in their workplaces. Men get complimented about being leaders or their hard work while on the other hand women are judged or criticized more for doing the same thing a man does. Or even the way women are pressured to dress differently while men aren't ; how women are "overly emotional" and that's judged too but men have rights to get mad and women don't. These are just some examples because there are much more situations out there than the ones I mentioned.

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