Feminism
This argument is ridiculous here are 14 reasons why..... 1. Women pay more for common
household items than men do. Shampoo, deodorant"even a 10-pack of socks"are among
the many products that cost more for women, according to an analysis we published
earlier this year. 2. Women make 16% less money than their male counterparts. Although
the pay gap is narrowing, women in the U.S. working full- and part-time make 84% of
what their male counterparts earn, according to the Pew Research Center. In other
words, women need to work an extra 40 days a year to make as much as men. It's an
even grimmer picture overseas: Women worldwide make 77% the amount paid to men, according
to a report from the United Nation's International Labor Organization. 3. And for
black and Hispanic women, the rates are even worse. Black women have to work 19 months
to make what white men did in a year, according to the National Women's Law Center.
That number is even worse for Hispanic women, the center found. 4. Women are underrepresented
in government. Although women make up nearly 51% of the U.S. population, only 20%
of the U.S. Congress is comprised of women, which"fortunately or unfortunately"makes
the current Congress one of the most diverse in American history, according to The
Washington Post. Worldwide, just 22% of all national parliamentarians were female
as of January 2015, according to the U.N. 5. Women are the minority in the executive
suite. At Fortune 500 companies, they account for 17% of boards members, 15% of C-suite
executives and 5% of CEOs, according to Business Insider. There is, however, some good news. A USA Today analysis this year found that 21 of the 22 current female chief executives
in the Standard & Poor's 500 index"which includes Yahoo, defense contractor Lockheed
Martin and TJX, the company that owns retailers like T.J. Maxx and Marshalls"earned
an average of $18.8 million compared with male CEOs' average salary of $12.7 million.
Never mind that there are 455 male CEOs in the S&P 500. 6. Women are also the minority
in the news media. Women are on camera 32% percent of the time, according to the Women's
Media Center's annual report The Status of Women in the U.S. Media 2015. They report
37% of the stories in print, and on the internet, they write 42% of the news. 7. And
they're the minority in the booming tech sector, too. Women on average comprise about
30% of the workforce at the world's largest tech companies, including Google, Microsoft,
Twitter and Facebook, according to their own diversity reports. 8. Women still shoulder
more of the household burden. According to the U.S. government's National Time Use
Survey, working moms are more likely to be saddled with childcare duties than working
fathers, even if both spouses work equal hours outside the house. They're also more likely to get the burden of doing chores around the house, even
if they're not stay-at-home moms. 9. Women are far more likely to be the victims of human trafficking. More than 800,000
people are trafficked across international borders every year, according to a report
in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology. And a whopping 80% of them are women and girls,
mostly taken from their homes to be forced into prostitution abroad. 10. Female soldiers
face rape and harassment. Between one fifth and one half of female veterans were sexually
harassed while on active duty, and women are more likely to leave with PTSD from rape
than from actual fighting, according to a 2013 Pentagon report. 11. Women overall
are at a greater risk of rape and domestic violence. In fact, women between the ages
of 15 and 44 are at a greater risk of experiencing rape or domestic violence than
cancer, car accidents, war or malaria, according to the World Bank. And as much as
70% of women worldwide experience violence during their life, the U.N. said. 12. Young
women experience inequality in high school sports. Despite the passage in 1972 of
Title IX, which called for gender equality in schools, nearly 4,500 public high schools
in the U.S."about 28% of the nation's public schools"have "larger gender inequality
in sports," reported The Atlantic, which cited data from the National Women's Law
Center. 13. Retired women are twice as likely as retired men to live in poverty. Eleven
percent of women age 65 and older live below the poverty line compared with 6.6% of
men, according to CNNMoney. And women of retirement age rely on a median income of
about $16,000 a year, which is around $11,000 than men of the same age. 14. Women
of all ages are, in fact, more likely than men to live below the poverty line. Across
the U.S., 15.5% of women live in poverty compared with 11.9% of men, according to
a report from the Institute for Women's Policy Research. That number worsens for black,
Hispanic and Native American women. Worldwide, the majority of the more than 1 billion
people living in poverty are women, according to the U.N.
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