Explain Why Women Should Have Equal Rights To Men

Zhou Yuxia a twenty-four year old student in the United States returned to her home in Beijing and had a hard time getting a job. She soon came to find that although she had all the qualifications required for the jobs she wanted, the one thing she didn’t have was the right gender; she wasn’t a man. This is just one example of the many accounts where women are discriminated against. All around the world women are discriminated against while men have more power and authority, we need to allow women the same control as men. I believe that in all countries women should have equal rights to men. Women should be allowed to have a choice of when and who they will marry,as well have the right to divorce their spouse. Many countries force women into marriages at young ages and don’t give them the choice of divorce. Around 1 in 10 girls worldwide have experienced sexual violence at some point in their lives.Over 700 million women alive today were married when they were under 18, and of those some 250 million were married before they were 15. Worldwide, more than 700 million women alive today were married as children. Child brides are often unable to effectively negotiate safe sex, leaving them vulnerable to early pregnancy as well as …show more content…
Many countries either don’t allow women the rights to get an education or the dangers of being raped or even murdered for attending outweigh the benefits of education. Countries need to improve women’s safety because too many have been injured and killed. Education ties into marriage many parents take their daughters out of schooling when they are going threw puberty in fear of early pregnancy and marry them off to older men. About 60% of the 10 million children not in school in developing nations are girls. Schooling is important because it gives them immediate benefits of the knowledge of family planning, nutrition, health and, economic productivity as well as social and political