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On balance, Feminism is not needed in the US anymore.

Okay, I really do not get the logic behind involving other countries in this debate. The resolution states "On balance, Feminism is not needed in the US anymore." I specifically stated US, because I do realize that feminism is needed in other areas around the world. To say that it isn't is being na"ve and ignorant. You did not explain why the resolution includes other countries, and gave no examples of how the wording includes other countries. Defense: [1] Sex, Domestic Violence and Rape: Numbers that my opponent used: 50,000 women are trafficked into the US each year. This is a global sex trade, and involves other countries that we do not know about, and probably places where feminism is needed. 23 women a week are killed by intimates. The source you list first of all list for this evidence is a blog made in 2010. The year is 2016 which means 6 years have gone by since this has happened. The Washington Post article you also sourced was an opinion article with no evidence to back it up. Between 14,500 and 17,500 people are trafficked into the U.S. each year. https://www.dosomething.org... This proves that your source is outdated, and therefore unreliable to argue with. Con also gone to say that there have been 182,000 sexual assaults committed against women in 2008. Con than says the actual number is 1 million which is a really broad study, and as my opponent has noted. There are different ways to say different things that can mean different things to another. There are 125.9 million women in America. https://en.wikipedia.org... 182,000 women = 0.146% of the women in America. 1 million women=0.8% This debate is about balance. I think these numbers speak for it selves. If 182,000 women are being raped, than that means that 124,818,000 women are not being raped. If 1 million women are being raped, than that means that 124 million women are not being raped. You can clearly see that there is a unstable balance with more women not being raped winning the scales. This resolution specifically states "On balance". I think that 0.8% does not weigh the scales at all. C2. In the Workplace "Many people want to argue that the "Wage Gap" simply doesn"t exist. In fact, it still does. Many people want to argue that the reasoning has to do with degrees, and positions. It has been proven on multiple occasions that Men and Women who have the same degree, and work the same job, Women still earn less." Okay, you still have done nothing to dispute the facts that I listed in the last argument. You have not disputed: Males are far more likely to chose dangerous careers Males are far more likely to work in higher paying jobs Men work longer hours than women Men are likely to pursue high-stress and higher paid areas WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS make LESS THAN HALF of what male business owners make. Than my opponent moves on to how Iraq has better representation of women which is clearly false. First of all, Iraq is a broken government with terrorist groups such as Al-Quada in it. America has 320 million people, and as I have said men go for higher paying jobs which Con has not disputed. A good representation of this is that only 2 women Hilary Clinton and Carly Fiorina were running in a presidential race dominated by men. Carly Fiorina dropped out leaving Hilary the only one. "Thanks to the pay gap, women struggle to pay off student loan debt even more than men do. The pay gap has barely budged in a decade. At the current rate, the gap won"t close for more than 100 years. Women in every state experience the pay gap, but in some states it"s worse than others" In order for me to believe this, first of all give statistics on what jobs females apply for. All you have proven is that females apply for jobs with less pay. I have actually proven that Males do apply for more dangerous, and higher paying jobs. You also said 15% of women are in Fortune 500 companies which means that 85% of males make up Fortune 500 companies. That is going to make a significant impact on that 70 cent argument. Con also tries to talk about other countries which this resolution does not talk about. I agree feminism is needed in other areas, but not in America.