Making my way back on my daily commute from university to home, ear phones plugged in and proceeding to zone out from the humdrum of the city. I scrolled through my Facebook newsfeed and stopped momentarily on an article on Robin Wright’s demand for equal pay for acting in the critically acclaimed series, House of Cards. In good timing, Chaka Khan ‘s ‘I’m Every Woman’ proceeded to play on my Spotify playlist and this immediately struck a chord with me.
Growing up, as a female, you would imagine that equality was embedded in our society from the outset. However, as the years go on and you slowly start noticing the minor things that differentiate between the genders. Perhaps the time when you completed a set of allocated chores but received a sum significantly less than what your male sibling received. Perhaps the time you worked at a café as a waitress and came to discover the boss was paying you significantly less to your male colleague. Or even perhaps even the time you were in a playground and proceeding to go down the slide, only to be interrupted by a boy and told to go after him.
Simply, because he was a male.
