Growing up in today’s society is not an easy thing, however the difficulty is intensified based on gender. Women and little girls are often subjected to the following lines: “Don’t be aggressive, it’s unladylike!”, “Don’t cut your hair”, “Don’t get an education, men won’t like you if you are smart. “, Don’t get pregnant or we won’t hire you!” “Don’t get an abortion because it’s wrong!” and so much more. It is not hard to tell that in our society women are not treated equally, this is due to numerous factors in our history, however the single most major obstacle that restrains women is women’s health rights. Women are shamed on a daily basis for their bodies, whether it is the way they look or what they wish to do with them, it is a fundamental human right that women are constantly denied.
Women all over the world are told what to do the moment they are born, “You will marry a certain man, become pregnant and take care of the home”. But what if that is not what they want for themselves. In India there are only 858 girls born for every 1,000 boys (Gierstorfer), and why is that? Sex-Select abortion is …show more content…
A choice that as Eduardo Porter explores in his New York Times article, is the reason for a wage gap between men and women. Women are paid unequally for just being women! It is the twenty first century and that is what is at the center of the workforce. Not only are women paid on average seventy- nine cents to the man’s dollar, that money isn’t reimbursed in any way. There is no guaranteed paid maternity leave in the United States of America. America who constantly puts down other countries for the way they treat women, can’t guarantee paid maternity leave. Countries like Russia, China and India all have maternity leave that are not only longer than the 12 weeks of leave granted by the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, but are also
Women all over the world are told what to do the moment they are born, “You will marry a certain man, become pregnant and take care of the home”. But what if that is not what they want for themselves. In India there are only 858 girls born for every 1,000 boys (Gierstorfer), and why is that? Sex-Select abortion is …show more content…
A choice that as Eduardo Porter explores in his New York Times article, is the reason for a wage gap between men and women. Women are paid unequally for just being women! It is the twenty first century and that is what is at the center of the workforce. Not only are women paid on average seventy- nine cents to the man’s dollar, that money isn’t reimbursed in any way. There is no guaranteed paid maternity leave in the United States of America. America who constantly puts down other countries for the way they treat women, can’t guarantee paid maternity leave. Countries like Russia, China and India all have maternity leave that are not only longer than the 12 weeks of leave granted by the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, but are also