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Feminism is not needed in America anymore and is corrupting some minds.

Thanks for the debate, Pro. [1] Pro: "Feminism use [sic] to be a great movement. I am totally for gender equality and women have that in America." (A) Feminism is still for gender equality. The vast majority of feminists believe so, and criticize those who support female or male supremacy. (B) Women do not have gender equality in America, as will become clear. [2.1] "Some feminist think that women make around 77 cents to a mans dollar." (A) The gap is smaller than that, but it still exists. [2.2] "women are more likely to work 35 to 39 hours a week when men are 4x more likely to work 40+ hours" (A) To quote the Bureau of Labor Statistics [1]: "[E]mployed men worked about three-quarters of an hour more than employed women. [...] This difference partly reflects women's greater likelihood of working part time. However, even among full-time workers (those usually working 35 hours or more per week), men worked slightly longer than women " 8.2 versus 7.8 hours. Among part-time workers, men averaged 5.2 hours on days they worked and women averaged 5.4 hours." Only considering full-time workers and number of hours worked, the 0.4 hour difference might justify a ~5% pay difference; however, the pay gap is far larger. Further, this difference in working hours is explained largely by women being forced to take care of children, which is unfair and perpetuates gender roles. The AAUW reported [2]: "[B]ecoming a mother can negatively affect women"s earnings, while becoming a father does not typically have the same effect (Correll et al., 2007). Women are more likely than men to leave the workforce or reduce their work hours after they have children, thus reducing their earnings (AAUW Educational Foundation, 2007). Research has found that even among full-time workers, mothers face an earnings penalty in the workforce compared with women without children (Correll et al., 2007)." Yet even for childless women, the pay gap exists [2]: "One year after college graduation, men and women have much in common. [M]ost women and men who had earned bachelor"s degrees the year before were young, single, childless, relatively inexperienced in the workplace, and working full time. We might expect to find little or no gender pay gap among this group of workers at the start of their careers. Yet just one year after college graduation ... [w]omen working full time earned $35,296 on average, while men working full time earned $42,918[.] These figures represent a female/male earnings ratio of 82 percent, which is slightly higher than it was in 2001 when, among the same group, women earned just 80 percent of what their male peers earned (AAUW Educational Foundation, 2007). .... Among those who did have children, though, both men and women earned more than their counterparts without children. Mothers tended to be older than other female graduates, which may account in part for their relatively higher levels of pay. Not surprisingly, among full-time workers just one year after college graduation, the pay gap cannot be explained by motherhood." [2.3] when women go into labor and have children when they come back there male counterparts will have more experience (A) See above. [2.4] men are more likely to go into dangerous but more highly paying jobs Dangerous jobs don't pay more than less dangerous jobs [3]. Consider that the 4 jobs with the most fatalities are farming, mining, transportation, and construction, often noted for their sky-high wages. [2.5] Now on that fact there are many different thoughts on whether it is based on how the brain is different between males and females or society but they have equal opportunity to work in those fields. Do women have equal opportunity? Consider that even little things, little discriminations (like the teacher tendency to underscore female achievement on STEM-related tests) can have massive consequences for female employment opportunities [4]. [3] Many (I don't know the exact statistic) women will be raped. Now what I am about to say buy no means do I support or feel bad for rapist it is horrible and sick. I would like to know what feminism can do about rape? Many rapist don't see women as sex objects or less than men but they crave sex. How they get it is sick and horrible but this is not due to sexism just the fact the they crave sex and will do disgusting things to get that. Not to mention many rapist are mentally ill. (A) Feminism opposes "rape culture" (in which many males and females think that they have some kind of right to sex, regardless of consent) which causes at least some rapes. Feminists have also set up numerous centers to assist rape victims. Feminists also led to the redefinition of rape from a male-vaginally-raping-female action to a much broader action that has led to justice for many men and women. In fact, the prevalence of female victims (maybe 75% of all rape victims are female) suggests that women need *more* relative power to men. [4] Women are not shown enough in high level jobs political or not. Now women have the opportunity to be in these jobs just like men. Look at Hilary. Me, I am against Hilary but if she makes it then good for her. Women can and will make it as high of a level job that men have been and are. Now for the fact that men dominate political jobs. Now this is my thought not really facts but men have had more rights than women longer than women have had equal rights. This means that women have not had the time men have had to get into office. Now this may be sad but it's true and that may be one reason. Another is that some people argue the senate and other political groups should be 50/50 males and females. The question here isn't why are we not allowing as many women into the government but it should be who is best for the job. If a man is better than the women hire him. If the women is better than the man hire her. (A) Women are about 20% of Congress members [5]. Women are 50% of the population. Can you seriously argue that men are 60% more skilled than women at governance? [1] http://www.bls.gov... [2] http://www.aauw.org... [3] http://amptoons.com... [4] http://nber.org... [5] http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu...