Equal pay and discrimination in the workforce is one of the major things standing in women’s way/Women’s Rights. Women are nearly half of the workforce and continue to earn more college graduate degrees than men, yet, women consistently earn less than men. In 2016, “female full-time, year-round workers made only 80.5 cents for every dollar earned by men,” which is a gender wage gap of 20%. Looking at the facts and statistics, it’s quite confusing, if women earn more college degrees and work as much as men, why are they getting paid 20% less? I honestly don’t have an answer for you. According to the Institute of Women’s Policy research, it will be 41 years before women and men receive equal pay if the slow change keeps progressing as it has for the past 50 years. We need change to
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Women everywhere are constantly being judged for what they wear, their body type and their unwillingness to fulfill the “normal” way women should be. Women should take care of children, clean, cook and be proper, lady-like if you will, is what people think of as a “normal woman.” Often times women will be ridiculed after they’ve been sexually abused, told that they were “asking for it” because of the way they were dressed or because they’ve been flirting with the man. Did you know that 25% of all women who have been raped are victimized by the public? That a woman is sexually assaulted every 98 seconds? How about that only 2-8% of rape accusations are false? Inappropriate catcalling on the street, the harassment of military women, mansplaining, and anti-abortion activists are other problems that women face. It feels like everyone, male politicians, for example, are telling women what they can and can’t do with their bodies. We need to start accepting women for who they are, to stop singling them out for their clothes and bodies, and keep fighting against their gender
Women everywhere are constantly being judged for what they wear, their body type and their unwillingness to fulfill the “normal” way women should be. Women should take care of children, clean, cook and be proper, lady-like if you will, is what people think of as a “normal woman.” Often times women will be ridiculed after they’ve been sexually abused, told that they were “asking for it” because of the way they were dressed or because they’ve been flirting with the man. Did you know that 25% of all women who have been raped are victimized by the public? That a woman is sexually assaulted every 98 seconds? How about that only 2-8% of rape accusations are false? Inappropriate catcalling on the street, the harassment of military women, mansplaining, and anti-abortion activists are other problems that women face. It feels like everyone, male politicians, for example, are telling women what they can and can’t do with their bodies. We need to start accepting women for who they are, to stop singling them out for their clothes and bodies, and keep fighting against their gender