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THBT feminism has failed

"Let me start off by asking a question: How many CEOs of companies or high-level offficals of governments are women? Precious little are. This is common sense that women in power are much more less than men in power, which in turn proves that the role of women is not as powerful as men in the society. The purpose of feminism was to put women on a par with men. However, feminism did not even get close to it's purpose, for there is still lots of gender inequality in this world today. Thus this motion must fall." First if all, the purpose of feminism is not to put women on par with men. This is not true. Feminism is simply about equality of opportunity and treatment. The right to be treated as equals, and the right to have the same opportunity. You are right that a minute amount of women are in positions of power, the figure is estimated at 20%, but don't jump to conclusions, this does not mean that there is inequality. 73% of the people in medical and healthcare related jobs are women. Does that mean there is male sexism within that field? A survey conducted shows 76% of public school teachers were female. So is there inequality there? Is that what it proves? Because it is ignorant to think true equality means everything is 50:50. The floor will agree that if 15.7% of people in the American Army are women, it doesn't mean sexism. After all, that would imply that exactly the same amount or a majority of women actually applied and were turned down. If there were more men applying, of course more men will be in the army. Of course men, who have a better suited anatomy for the work of the army will be admitted. You are focusing on the wrong side of things, feminists don't truly want equality of outcome, because there are still a high amount people who don't want positions of power, there are still ladies against the idea of feminism, there is a whole website (http://www.ladiesagainstfeminism.com...) about it, but what is truly equality is equal opportunity. And that is ever-present. A 2006 census showed that 60% of people in university were women. If that isn't equal opportunity, I don't know what counts. This article sums it up - http://news.bbc.co.uk.... An example of how the feminist ideology is helping and has helped create the fact that a woman can go to university on the same grounds as men. That is not a failure, that is a success for feminism. http://www.businessweek.com... http://www.feminismisequality.com... http://nces.ed.gov... http://www.independent.co.uk... http://www.army.mil... http://news.bbc.co.uk...